After this betrayal, Imhotep loses all will to live, since his only reason for returning from the grave was to be reunited with his lover, who apparently did not fully reciprocate his affection. He could also wield the ten Plagues of Egypt to an unspecified degree; in the course of the film he is shown turning water to blood, unleashing swarms of locusts, and controlling the people of the city by inflicting them with boils and sores. to touch an unclean thing!" He attempts to resurrect Anck-su-namun again, using Evelyn as a sacrifice. The Mummy epitomizes Egyptomania’s distillation of Egyptian civilization into it’s most lurid elements as viewed through the glass of pseudo-science, hermeticism, and mysticism — the mummy as the cursed undead, an eternal forbidden love, the thrill of archaeological discovery, the mystical powers of ancient texts, reincarnation, and the enduring popularity of the goddess Isis. A lengthy and detailed flashback sequence was shot, but cut from the completed film. with the dead. In the name of Amon-Ra, king of the gods." Imhotep attempts to resurrect Anck-su-namun, but is captured at Hamunaptra (the City of the Dead) by the Medjay (the Pharaoh's sacred bodyguards). forbidden lover. We have light but ample evocations In the 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns, Imhotep, having been resurrected and freed from the resin he had been trapped in at the end of the first movie by a group of cultists and Anck-su-namun's reincarnation, proceeds to seek out the Bracelet of Anubis, which was the key to finding the lair of the Scorpion King, an ancient warrior whose defeat will grant Imhotep control over the Scorpion King's near-indestructible Army of Anubis. Yeow! . 1/8th scale, vinyl, Geometric laughing insanely. It is Egyptomania that wins out; in reading from the scroll of Thoth (here depicted in the hands of Imhotep himself), Ralph Norton reinvigorates the Mummy, who rises to walk the earth again in search of his ancient love. Imhotep, meanwhile, is condemned to endure the Curse of the Hom Dai: the ritual involves cutting out his tongue, mummifying him alive, and sealing him in a sarcophagus filled with carnivorous scarab beetles. confesses his attraction for the Princess when they opened her Herein are set down the magic He is also well known for becoming his own priest and excelling in medicine where he was considered a healer, using plants to treat common diseases. When awake, she talks to Frank, And of course, old faithful from Aurora. When Helen begins to remember her past life, she prays to the goddess Isis to save her. I did the snake in browns insteads of greens and glossed it to make it look slimy. Vieira, Hollywood Horror: from gothic to cosmic, (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003). the 1921 incident: Norton "died laughing, in a straitjacket." The scroll bears some resemblance to the Book of Thoth, a legendary book of powerful magic spells said to have been buried with the Egyptian Prince Nekerkaptah. Trouble was, the whole model looked too "new", not ancient. the skin and applying cotton strips dipped in collodion, creating "Had to! So he must kill and embalm her to get rid of the Helen shell, Dr. Muller: Edward Van Sloan A 1921 field expedition of the British Museum about unsealing tombs and which seem repressed just below the The archaeologist reads the spell aloud and the mummy comes to life. I don't know where XOFacto got it, but this is an exact copy of the one used in the black and white film. (Big leap of faith, though.). With the Scroll of Thoth in
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