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It didn’t make a difference to the box office and two further adventures were exhumed. While audiences felt pity for Karloff’s mummy, in this remake he was a fully-fledged antagonist, totally devoid of sympathy. The story hinges on the unintentionally awakened shape shifting creature that summons the ‘ten plagues of Egypt’.
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“Most of this movie is based on real myths and real legends even though it’s a story about a 3,000-year-old walking, talking corpse,” claimed director Stephen Sommers of the first campy film in the series. The dawn of the 21st Century ushered in a whole new mummy franchise (1999-2008) that starred Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz and reverted back to the legend of Imhotep. The film-maker also notably produced Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), which centred on the budding sleuth uncovering an underground Egyptian cult who mummify live human sacrifices as part of their sadistic ritual. Roland Emmerich’s Stargate (1994) concerned the gateway to a distant planet that mirrored ancient Egypt and played upon its exotic lure and despotic history with an alien masquerading as the Egyptian god Ra.
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Spielberg’s first Indiana Jones adventure, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) hinged on the search for the Ark of the Covenant in Egypt. Screenwriter Jimmy Sangster borrowed from Universal’s uneven sequels and adopted the moniker Kharis for the towering creature (Christopher Lee) having mistakenly presumed it was the name of a real Egyptian god.
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Hammer Studios brought the mummy back to fearsome life with Terence Fisher’s The Mummy in 1959, a film that honoured the original legend and recognised the creature’s romantic appeal by reinstating an Ankhesenamun figure named Princess Ananka, (Yvonne Furneaux). The idea of a mobile mummy would have been totally alien to the ancient Egyptians and goes against the entire concept of mummification, sought to preserve the dead for a still and peaceful afterlife. The Mummy’s Hand (1940) was the first in a reimagined but decidedly dumbed-down franchise. Despite popular belief, Karloff actually only appears as the titular bandaged being during the memorably unnerving 10-minute opening of the original film: it was only in the follow-ups that the revived creature became the lumbering threat we know today. The earliest known example of the film and its two central leads being associated with bisexuality comes from a post by Tumblr user pick-nett made on April 21st, 2018, reading "Bi culture is watching The Mummy (1999) and not knowing whether you’re more in love with Evy or Rick.It took another eight years before the next mummy film from Universal surfaced. The tweet received over 6,000 retweets and 48,000 likes in two years (seen below). On August 3rd, 2019, Twitter user kurtisconner tweeted one such example with the caption "the mummy? more like the daddy" alongside two images of Brendan Fraser in the film.
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The series has also enjoyed a noteworthy presence online in memes and viral discussions over the years. In 2007, a Fandom for the series was created online, categorizing and collecting various characters or elements from the series, which accumulated over 686 articles in 14 years. Since the introduction of the first film and years after, the Mummy series has enjoyed a notable fandom and is often regarded as a cult classic among some.