RichVR
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As a child I considered Karloff’s mummy to be more scary than The Monster or The Wolfman.
Karloff in “The Mummy” is basically a lich who can pass for a living human. The subsequent Universal mummy movies, which are about a different mummy named Kharis, established the slow shuffling mummy archetype. In at least one of those, Lon Chaney Jr. is not only too slow to catch a girl who hasn’t noticed him and skips away, he’s only got the use of one hand! The Hammer Christopher Lee mummy from the 60s is probably the best of both worlds.
The only remotely effective thing mummies have ever done is get conflated with liches, and really, that’s just a failing of lich PR. Otherwise, mummies are a complete joke. I would be no more frightened of a mummy than I would be frightened of someone laid up in the hospital in traction: “Ooh, scary, you might lurch at me with your dirty bandages…”
-Tom
Did you actually watch The Mummy? This is the equivalent of thinking zombies want to eat your brain.
Karloff’s Mummy is essentially an early version of Coppola’s Dracula, which as we all know is the best Dracula.
I consider not having been born a pretty good excuse for missing a movie. But I bet my grampa saw it!
That tracks.
-Tom
It is in fact an awful excuse. Also what’s going on with your profile picture.
Scuzz
1844
But just like zombies, what if mummies have found a way to get faster!
Are you saying you’ve never seen a noir film?
No, not the newer neo-noir stuff, but the originals?
Because man, you missed out.
But it’s not too late!
Random suggestion: Out Of The Past.
Re-made in 1984 as Against All Odds.
I suppose I should see the re-make sometime. Never got around to it. Probably awful compared to the original, which is a classic.
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Movie discussion spillover outside the Movie forum is certainly a case of “what could possibly go wrong” :)
Fearsome picture, but he really was useless, The Thundercats kicked his ass repeatedly.
Lies! He was so awesomely scary as a kid.
I’m assuming you’re asking me this because you think that stuff is good. And I know enough to know that there are no mummies in those movies. Ergo, thank you for helping me prove my point!
-Tom
Look. At least no one is (incorrectly) asserting that Chicago deep-dish pizza is actually pizza in this thread.
