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Everything Action Commentary: The Mummy (1932)
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For the latest Everything Action Commentary, with Lee Cronin's The Mummy out in theaters this month, Zach and Chris went back to where it all began and watched the original 1932 classic, The Mummy.
Starring Boris Karloff, coming off his star-making turn in Frankenstein, as Imhotep, he's an Egyptian high priest who was cursed and buried alive when he tried to use the sacred Scroll of Thoth to bring his beloved Ankh-es-en-Amon back to life. Unearthed by archaeologists in 1921, Imhotep rises from the dead and assumes the guise of Ardeth Bay to continue his plan to resurrect his love, whom he believes is now reincarnated as Helen Grosvenor (Zita Johann).
While watching the film, Zach and Chris discuss how Karloff is only in his iconic bandage look for the opening scene, the similarities and differences compared to the 1999 The Mummy, Frank Whemple (David Manners) being attracted to a dead mummy, Imhotep's magic water TV, why Imhotep doesn't just remotely kill everybody, and more.
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Transcript
Intro
Introduction and Overview
00:00:30
Chris Prime
I'm co-host,
00:00:34
Zach Sheets
Hello and welcome to another Every Nation Commentary. It's a commentary for April 2026. I'm your host, Zach.
Blumhouse's New Take vs. Original
00:00:40
Chris Prime
um our co-host chris
00:00:42
Zach Sheets
And this month we had a gruesome new take on The Mummy from b Blumhouse with ah Lee Cronin's The Mummy. um But we're going all way back
1932 'The Mummy' Film Analysis
00:00:50
Zach Sheets
to the beginning. We're going back to 1932 and watching the original Universal Monster Classic with Boris Karloff,
00:00:58
Zach Sheets
um which kickstarted the entire kind of mummy genre. Yeah.
00:01:04
Chris Prime
Would you call it the also the beginnings of the dark universe of the 30s?
00:01:08
Zach Sheets
Probably. Although I feel like the mummy didn't really cross over that much with like the other... Dracula and Frankenstein and Wolfman were hanging out all the time, but then the mummy wasn't really in there that much.
00:01:19
Chris Prime
I think just because the mummy always needs logistical reasons for him to be there.
00:01:24
Zach Sheets
And also, like the mummy in this in the movie we're watching today with the Bros Karloff is not the same mummy as like the rest of the series, because there was a trilogy after this that was like, Karras the mummy? Because is this is Ibotep?
00:01:40
Zach Sheets
So, yeah. I think Mung was kind of just doing his own thing for most of the Universal Monster run.
00:01:49
Chris Prime
I mean, I do not know Karis.
Character Evolution in 'The Mummy'
00:01:52
Chris Prime
Imhotep was the name, and then the reimagining of the mummy, Imhotep was back again. And then they every time they try to swap out Imhotep, it just becomes this, like, guessing game of where this where does this go
00:02:07
Zach Sheets
yeah yeah Yeah, Jet Li in there. it's that Now it's not like Lee Krohn's like a little girl who gets like, I guess Egyptian magic turns her into a deadite or something.
00:02:17
Zach Sheets
it seems like me
00:02:18
Chris Prime
Yeah, she's more like a deadite than a mummy.
00:02:20
Zach Sheets
Which makes sense because like Lee Krohn directed Evil Dead Rise. so It feels like he's just kind of doing like the that, but like, it's a mummy?
Anticipation for Lee Cronin's Version
00:02:32
Zach Sheets
I don't know. We're recording this, but the there as the thesis but I'm kind of excited to see it just because like I've heard like it's got it's getting into reviews and it's ah apparently yeah like extremely gory and gruesome and insane.
00:02:43
Chris Prime
I think, uh... I think I've seen parts of... I've seen parts of this when um it was like featured on like Turner Broadcasting Station or like or just like the old classic movie channel.
00:03:00
Zach Sheets
Oh, the original one.
00:03:00
Chris Prime
Like TMZ?
00:03:01
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:03:01
Chris Prime
Yeah, you' the original one. but
00:03:02
Zach Sheets
no
00:03:03
Chris Prime
And then even then, it's like maybe Abbott and Casello stuff. i was like, oh, okay. like I want to know this was. like That's why I'm more familiar with Universal Monsters first. But the mummy was always interesting just because everyone remembered the mummy as just like he's always in the wrappings.
00:03:20
Chris Prime
But this was like, oh, no, he like wore a suit. Sometimes he like toward the town. He does a lot more things than you think.
00:03:26
Zach Sheets
Yeah, we'll get into it. So, ah yeah, so so find a copy of ah you the The Mummy, the Universal classic.
Viewing the 1932 'The Mummy' Experience
00:03:36
Zach Sheets
um I think it was like, ah you know, it hit 4K like a couple years ago. you can like i don't know if it's in 4K and like streaming, but I'm sure you can probably find it. that That block set was pretty awesome, so you can maybe get that or, yeah, just rent it somewhere.
00:03:51
Zach Sheets
maybe, you know, I'm sure it's probably somewhere on the internet if you search for it.
00:03:57
Zach Sheets
um but yeah we are paused at zero so i'll give a countdown let me get started here so five four three two one play
00:04:16
Zach Sheets
i got the the classical universal logo
00:04:30
Chris Prime
And then the not classical mummy like cereal box font we got going on here.
00:04:37
Zach Sheets
sure that I'm sure that model got destroyed as soon as the movie was over, which a shame.
00:04:41
Chris Prime
I'm pretty sure someone like fell on this later.
00:04:43
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:04:48
Chris Prime
Ah, the classic like
00:04:52
Chris Prime
I've heard this song in other things. i'm done
00:04:54
Zach Sheets
it's It's Swan Lake.
00:04:55
Chris Prime
Okay, yeah.
00:04:56
Zach Sheets
And they used used it for Dracula. If you want if you watch Bela Lugosi Dracula, it's the same exact song.
00:05:03
Chris Prime
couldn't figure out an Egyptian song?
00:05:08
Zach Sheets
but yeah so like I guess they just had to use classic music in the 30s.
Cultural Influences and Musical Choices
00:05:25
Zach Sheets
See what's weird is that ah so this scroll is fake, but the Book of the Dead is real. Or that was like a real thing. But they didn't use the real thing. They were like, oh, we're going to up our own like scroll thing.
00:05:39
Chris Prime
Well, I mean, it's like the McCartney era. So even just having like this much. Like artifacts that may or may not be real, probably would have labeled them as like pre-communism.
00:05:54
Zach Sheets
Well, everyone i mean everyone wass like super hyped for Egyptian stuff. They just they found King Tut's like tomb a couple companies years before this.
00:05:59
Chris Prime
Oh, yeah, I forgot.
00:06:02
Zach Sheets
i was I think that was like i read that was like the big inspiration to like make this movie. Because there's no novel like Frankenstein or Dracula before this. so
00:06:10
Chris Prime
So this was seriously just like a sensationalized like event.
00:06:13
Zach Sheets
they did this is It's like, but make some of the mummy.
00:06:17
Chris Prime
That's like if they ever made like a La Boo Boo movie.
00:06:20
Zach Sheets
Which they are, I think they're making it.
00:06:22
Chris Prime
Oh my God.
1930s Film Dialogue and Accents
00:06:30
Chris Prime
Oh, is it true archaeology? Where's Indiana Jones?
00:06:32
Zach Sheets
yeah
00:06:34
Chris Prime
Is he indie?
00:06:46
Chris Prime
So do you think about the transatlantic accents?
00:06:50
Chris Prime
Everyone back then had to speak in this like weird rhythmic tones.
00:06:59
Zach Sheets
Yeah, was it was it like a they Like, they thought audiences couldn't understand... Like, they need to understand the dialogue better because of the accents, I guess.
00:07:08
Chris Prime
Yep. That's because they don't want like true British, true American They want it. Everyone talks as if it's like Shakespearean, but like very, very like delivered.
00:07:21
Chris Prime
Falsefully.
00:07:29
Chris Prime
Like no one speaks fast. No one speaks too loud unless it's like a fight sequence.
00:07:36
Chris Prime
But it's like they're singing, talking.
00:07:47
Chris Prime
See, like back when this was the era of music, musicals and stuff like it was a good transition into a musical scene right there.
00:07:51
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
Comparative Analysis: Original vs. Fraser's Version
00:08:22
Zach Sheets
Yeah, it is. It's kind of like the Brendan Fraser movie like took a lot of like, there's like little bits of pieces that it took for like, they're like exactly the same.
00:08:30
Chris Prime
It makes sense. I mean, and that's like I think that's why it's like that one holds up so well, because those are like exciting points of having like a person who is like very cursed and like did something bad.
00:08:43
Zach Sheets
Cursed and yeah.
00:08:45
Chris Prime
And then you get these explorers who come in and just start poking around and just like, OK, I'm covering the secrets like really fast.
00:09:07
Zach Sheets
Thrill at the archaeology!
00:09:18
Chris Prime
So, I know, like, we both didn't go to film school. And this is one of those, like, you had to watch these popper movies to show you the techniques. But the 30s had a lot of movies where they didn't zoom in on stuff. Like, they didn't figure out how to do that well yet.
00:09:33
Zach Sheets
I mean, they i don't they didn't have like dollies or stuff like that, so...
00:09:37
Chris Prime
Ah, they had it. But they could have taken a ah cut break and then, like, zoom in.
00:09:39
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:09:42
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:09:42
Chris Prime
Most of this is, like, uncut.
00:09:44
Chris Prime
You see how many, like, cuts we just we just jump transition here.
00:09:47
Zach Sheets
ah
00:09:49
Chris Prime
So like by modern film standards, this would have had like different angles and zoom ins and then like a musical score would have been said something.
00:09:58
Zach Sheets
yeah
00:10:08
Chris Prime
this This shot would have been outside, like zooming in.
00:10:31
Chris Prime
What boy?
Iconic Characters and Scenes
00:10:33
Chris Prime
he supposed to be like a young boy? He's
00:10:36
Zach Sheets
This young teenage boy!
00:10:39
Chris Prime
like clearly in his like late 20s, early Is
00:10:42
Zach Sheets
it was it was hard it was a hard times back then.
00:10:52
Chris Prime
that it? So was that guy like not Helsing?
00:10:57
Zach Sheets
it's he's the He's like the equivalent of Van Helsing, I think.
00:11:26
Zach Sheets
Remember that from the opening scroll?
00:11:38
Chris Prime
Also, for like an ancient box, that looks new.
00:11:47
Zach Sheets
Made in China.
00:11:52
Chris Prime
Just gonna do some illegal archaeology right now. Some after dark archaeology.
00:12:03
Zach Sheets
Let's see how much gold is in there.
00:12:19
Chris Prime
Back to where he started.
00:12:22
Zach Sheets
On second a thought, no, I'm going to open that box.
00:12:27
Zach Sheets
Actually, maybe... maybe
00:12:38
Chris Prime
You know, for like a sacred box, that came off really easily.
00:12:41
Zach Sheets
yes
00:12:43
Chris Prime
Like opened a toilet lid.
00:12:49
Zach Sheets
I wish it was like the Brendan Fraser one where like they open that like that box and it's like sprays acid on everybody.
00:12:59
Chris Prime
Again, makes us appreciate the Brendan Fraser version.
00:13:12
Zach Sheets
It just like instantly turns to dust when opens it. It's like, oh, shit.
00:13:16
Chris Prime
Just sweeps it away. don't think was in there. Surprise!
00:13:59
Chris Prime
Listen, I don't care what kind of holy things we're like breaking. The museum comes first.
00:14:35
Chris Prime
Karloff mad.
00:14:37
Zach Sheets
A funny one would be if Barber's Cops was taking a nap the third time. It's just they're just catching me waking up. Oh, you guys, you ready for me?
00:14:46
Chris Prime
Well, mean, the the reason why Burles Karloff was so good was that he knew how to, like, mime really well, like, to to capture all these, like, pain. um But... Was this Karloff's first monster movie?
00:15:00
Zach Sheets
this This is after Frankenstein. That's why like in the poster, it was just like like...
00:15:02
Chris Prime
Ah.
00:15:04
Zach Sheets
Because he was a nobody really before Frankenstein. And then after that, the poster was just like, Karloff, the mummy!
00:15:11
Chris Prime
Gotcha. Gotcha.
00:15:22
Zach Sheets
just going to take this stroll from you, buddy. Is that okay?
00:15:37
Zach Sheets
and yeah I guess Boris Kovt did like all this in mummy makeup stuff in like one day. was like his first day of shooting. and they're like Because it was like so insanely like intricate for the makeup.
00:15:49
Chris Prime
Really?
00:15:52
Zach Sheets
It was like... came at They the makeup at Or And filmed it until then he was done with that makeup part.
00:15:59
Zach Sheets
and they they filmed it to like two a m and then he was like he was done with like that part of like the the makeup art
00:16:10
Chris Prime
Okay, so for a sacred scroll, if you read it, it activates the mummy.
00:16:17
Zach Sheets
Yeah, because he didn't say anything out loud. He was kind of like whispering a it maybe a little bit.
00:16:22
Chris Prime
But for a scroll that's like condemning the mummy...
00:16:25
Zach Sheets
If you even think about the scroll, he he wakes up.
00:16:29
Chris Prime
It's not a good plan to curse his mummy and then it's like, oh, well, you read not the curse, you read the instructions.
00:16:35
Zach Sheets
that's like in the ah the Brendan Fraser movie where it's just like, oh, he's cursed, but we're also going give him like godlike powers. Yeah.
00:16:45
Zach Sheets
We're going to make him like the deadliest creature on the planet.
00:16:48
Chris Prime
Yeah, i don't understand why they did that.
00:16:48
Zach Sheets
But but he's cursed.
00:16:49
Chris Prime
Yeah, he's cursed, but like...
00:16:51
Zach Sheets
He can control like the the entire like the desert and scarabs and rain blood.
00:16:57
Chris Prime
But like, is that what happens when you are a mummy or is that just him?
00:16:58
Zach Sheets
and
00:17:03
Chris Prime
Well, he was also like a, like a ah sorcerer back then or something too.
00:17:07
Zach Sheets
he was like the head priest or something.
00:17:09
Chris Prime
So he had holy power. So that sort of kind of made sense. It just, he's now worse.
00:17:17
Zach Sheets
Well, the funny thing is, like, Imhotep is actually, like, a real, like, figure in Egyptian history. But he's he's the guy that, like, designed the pyramids.
00:17:26
Chris Prime
Wow. So we,
00:17:26
Zach Sheets
and and he and he's And then he's, like, so, like, so he was, like, so revered they made him a god.
00:17:32
Chris Prime
because he was like cool but like for some reason we we yeah that's that's like taking any famous as architect from today and just being like oh like in a foreign country's interpretation that person's like a deep like a evil dent entity you know it's like kind of insulting
00:17:34
Zach Sheets
Yeah. And they turned him into, like, a villain, yeah.
00:17:51
Zach Sheets
yeah
00:18:03
Chris Prime
you know for like a newly awakened zombie, he looks really good.
00:18:08
Zach Sheets
Hello. I'm definitely not the mummy.
00:18:13
Zach Sheets
Where do you learn English?
00:18:14
Chris Prime
Well, it's been like a year.
00:18:14
Zach Sheets
too Oh, it's been a year?
00:18:15
Chris Prime
It's been a year.
00:18:15
Zach Sheets
Okay. Okay.
00:18:16
Chris Prime
Yeah.
00:18:22
Chris Prime
Okay, so I think as a kid, i walked it I watched this scene thinking I missed another part of the movie. Turns out it's just like the next scene transition.
00:18:34
Zach Sheets
yeah I hope yeah hope you enjoyed like Borshkov in like the bandages because you'll never see it again
00:18:40
Chris Prime
That's crazy. I always thought he was more mummy in scenes than like some wrinkly dude.
00:18:45
Zach Sheets
yeah it like that's like the most iconic thing in this movie and then it's like only in like the first 10 minutes
00:19:14
Chris Prime
So I like another acronym.
00:19:17
Zach Sheets
Well, it's it's in the, you know, the Brendan Fraser one again, like that like, they split the characters because that's like Odin Fares, like the, know, like the Magi, like, guy, like, he's, it's like like a totally separate character.
00:19:38
Chris Prime
like the twist of the Brennan Frasier that like that society was anti-Mummy. The Magi protectors. I don't think we have them in this version. I think it's just a bunch of British people running around trying to fight the mummy.
00:19:53
Zach Sheets
Yeah, just the a bunch of British, like, archaeologists.
00:19:57
Chris Prime
And even then, they're not really, like, fighting him. They're just trying figure out that, like, who's this mysterious rich man.
00:19:59
Zach Sheets
no.
00:20:04
Chris Prime
Is he even rich or is he just some dude in Cairo?
00:20:16
Chris Prime
Man, it must be so easy to be an archaeologist back then. You just sort of like sit and wait.
00:20:21
Zach Sheets
You just like let other people dig for you and take all the credit?
00:20:25
Chris Prime
You like, well, you fund it but then it's like you have to wear the PIF hat.
00:20:26
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:20:30
Zach Sheets
yeah
00:20:37
Chris Prime
Alright, double timing it because why not?
00:20:51
Chris Prime
I never understood why but like the local government didn't do this themselves. Why did it have to be like foreign explorers that come in and just like, we think this is here. And they're just like, okay.
00:21:06
Zach Sheets
you're Yeah, it's you're coming in and take all these like ah you know treasures and historical artifacts back to like London? Away from our country? Alright, that's fine.
00:21:20
Chris Prime
I think they they kind of stopped doing that in the last like 40 years, which is like way too late in like history for them to be dude like, keep doing that.
Archaeology and Ethics in Film
00:21:31
Zach Sheets
Oh, yeah, there's been a huge push of like you know like turning artifacts back to where they came from.
00:21:42
Chris Prime
See, I get like it goes to the local museum. That makes sense.
00:21:45
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:21:47
Chris Prime
But it's weird to be another country to be like, well, We paid the locals to dig, and so this is ours now.
00:22:03
Chris Prime
I wonder if I could still do that. Like, if I went to, like, Ireland and just start, like, just digging and then grabbing whatever things I found out, like artifacts I found, and just take it back to America.
00:22:08
Zach Sheets
Dicking. Mm-hmm.
00:22:15
Chris Prime
i mean, I'm pretty sure that's, like, an international incident. I just can't have that in my luggage.
00:22:19
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:22:29
Chris Prime
But see, this is back in the proper tomb raiding era where like it was just literally grave roppers.
00:22:35
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:22:42
Zach Sheets
Whoa.
00:22:43
Chris Prime
What's that?
00:22:44
Zach Sheets
What? What?
00:22:49
Zach Sheets
That's it's like it the 1930s version of like time travel or something. Oh no, we're still in the present day.
00:22:53
Chris Prime
Like a I think it was just like a landscape shot. They want to build a set.
00:22:59
Zach Sheets
They could do a start, like ah a wipe. They're like...
00:23:01
Chris Prime
Yeah, I would heard a wipe instead of a really brushed by, like someone showing me a flipbook.
00:23:09
Chris Prime
Yeah, they didn't have more of this footage?
00:23:15
Chris Prime
Damn, lady, just insulted this country.
00:23:22
Zach Sheets
stuck in shithole.
00:24:02
Chris Prime
Okay, well...
00:24:03
Zach Sheets
Thanks, Mr. Exposition.
00:24:07
Chris Prime
So I guess the party's over?
00:24:36
Chris Prime
But it's not.
00:24:46
Chris Prime
So it's funny that like he told him where to dig and he got no like reward.
00:24:54
Zach Sheets
they mentioned him in the paper.
00:24:56
Chris Prime
Did they?
00:24:57
Zach Sheets
Yep.
00:24:57
Chris Prime
Okay.
00:25:23
Chris Prime
Well, thanks for the walk.
00:25:28
Zach Sheets
What a cool dude.
00:25:33
Chris Prime
He just looks constantly thirsty.
00:25:48
Chris Prime
It's funny i think that I thought loot was like a modern word like in the last few like decades. Did not realize loot was like a word used back then.
00:25:59
Zach Sheets
They're still using booty.
00:26:02
Chris Prime
Yeah.
00:26:02
Zach Sheets
like it all the booty.
00:26:23
Chris Prime
So, for whatever reason, Imhotep is still like pretty like educated and well-spoken and and like goes out. And it's not like the mummy where we think where it's like a zombie, almost, and then he strangles people, like Frankenstein-like.
00:26:40
Zach Sheets
Yeah. hu I think that's more like the later, like the Karis trilogy. He just walks around and strangling people.
00:26:46
Chris Prime
Hmm.
00:26:47
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:26:49
Chris Prime
And he's doing kind of like like spirit curses here. Like he's transing people. But it's weird because like it's totally not what I thought it wouldd be.
Plot and Character Motivations
00:27:02
Chris Prime
I thought it would be like he he's trying to play people, trying to get more magic, and then he's trying to get all his equipment back. But it's not.
00:27:11
Zach Sheets
No, like, it's it's like it's it's the same plot as the Brendan Fraser one. It's like, he wants to get, like, an ox in the moon back.
00:27:25
Chris Prime
I wonder why the Tom Cruise one failed because he just didn't go for that plot, you know?
00:27:28
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:27:28
Chris Prime
Of the many other things going on with it?
00:27:31
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:27:41
Chris Prime
Was that her only like line of French? And it's just like...
00:27:48
Chris Prime
Shouldn't she speak like
00:27:51
Zach Sheets
Egyptian.
00:27:51
Chris Prime
Like Arabic?
00:27:52
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:28:15
Chris Prime
Hey, that'd be like five dollars.
00:28:17
Zach Sheets
You see, it's closed.
00:28:27
Chris Prime
oh yeah I like how the trance doesn't, like, make her any better. Just, she would have been doing this all night.
00:28:32
Zach Sheets
Yeah. Uh,
00:28:37
Zach Sheets
ah miss it's a, it's a push. You push it in. You don't pull on
00:28:52
Chris Prime
Not good thing this grown woman weighs, like, 40 pounds.
00:29:10
Chris Prime
Rap lyrics.
00:29:43
Zach Sheets
A little fire was called like lighting the entire room.
00:29:55
Chris Prime
that person miss him before?
00:29:56
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:30:02
Zach Sheets
like like It's like a comedy bit where he just keeps turning the light off
00:30:33
Zach Sheets
We definitely did it root for you.
00:30:34
Chris Prime
Yeah.
00:31:14
Chris Prime
Thank
00:31:33
Zach Sheets
Make yourself agreeable.
00:31:55
Chris Prime
Let's forget it why I'm here.
00:32:14
Zach Sheets
You think I'd tell him that?
00:32:17
Chris Prime
Say that again?
00:32:17
Zach Sheets
You think I had the party tell him that, that she was partly Egyptian?
00:32:21
Chris Prime
No, she he wasn't there. There was like another group.
00:32:23
Zach Sheets
Okay. It was like, was it
00:32:28
Chris Prime
think he was at like the museum. They were leaving to go to the party.
00:32:58
Chris Prime
Creep.
00:33:11
Chris Prime
i want to wrap you up in mummy stuff.
00:33:16
Chris Prime
Yeah, like, they're having a creepy conversation, and she's like, can you bring your father back in the room?
00:33:20
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:33:20
Chris Prime
Like...
00:33:21
Zach Sheets
It's like, you look like that you look like the hot dead mummy.
00:33:51
Chris Prime
Dead guard.
00:34:03
Chris Prime
yup still dead
00:34:21
Chris Prime
and the thief was just like, I'm out. Attempt of Beth, I feel like he still killed a guard.
00:34:43
Chris Prime
Remember this from the opening?
00:34:52
Zach Sheets
for the third time It's the scroll of Toth. It resurrects the dead.
00:34:56
Chris Prime
look at these How long have these two been talking? Like, the dad and the specialist were able to drive back- Yeah, went back to the museum.
00:35:00
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:35:03
Zach Sheets
Went back to the museum.
00:35:05
Chris Prime
It's been at least like a half an hour.
00:35:13
Chris Prime
Did they do it already? I don't-
00:35:23
Chris Prime
Oh, no.
00:35:30
Chris Prime
Hey,
00:35:35
Chris Prime
hey stop kissing the head injury, girl.
00:35:50
Zach Sheets
you're You're cursed now.
00:35:58
Zach Sheets
Maybe wrap yourself in some bandages.
00:36:02
Chris Prime
Yeah, that gets me hot and ready.
00:36:25
Chris Prime
Wait, so that... that, like, assistant in the beginning died?
00:36:29
Zach Sheets
Yeah, he like he like laughed himself to death. It's like he got Joker gassed. laughed himself to death and because he's an insane...
00:36:39
Chris Prime
Thank you.
00:37:30
Chris Prime
like how this was like peak horror back then, just like slowly walking into the room.
00:37:32
Zach Sheets
Yes. Mm-hmm.
00:37:42
Chris Prime
And Boris Karloff just looks like a young Abe Pagoda.
00:38:15
Chris Prime
This is the second or third?
00:38:17
Zach Sheets
the fourth strange man that's like disappeared.
00:38:18
Chris Prime
Yeah. Just like luring over her.
00:38:38
Chris Prime
Are you going to kiss this person too? Like you just met them?
00:38:41
Zach Sheets
meet
00:39:25
Chris Prime
Quick, eat it!
00:39:46
Zach Sheets
They're just like standing in the dark.
00:39:48
Chris Prime
Just deadlocked silent.
00:39:50
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
Social Interactions and Dialogue Delivery
00:40:13
Chris Prime
If I like walked in the room and saw this, I'm just like, what's going on? This is...
00:40:16
Zach Sheets
And it's still like not it's like locked eyes.
00:40:19
Chris Prime
Not blinking, just... Yeah.
00:40:25
Chris Prime
Like, I get social cues, but come on, this is so weird. And they're just observing it, they're like, huh. Huh.
00:40:33
Zach Sheets
all They're all men of science. They're all just like, hmm, interesting. Hmm.
00:40:42
Chris Prime
Hey, how about you put like two feet of distance between you two? It's
00:40:51
Chris Prime
like their knees are touching.
00:40:57
Zach Sheets
Anyone want a scotch or a cigarette or something?
00:41:13
Chris Prime
I'm Frank.
00:41:31
Zach Sheets
This artist's bae guy is so hot.
00:41:41
Chris Prime
Okay, people did... I don't remember this being like a love story.
00:41:49
Chris Prime
mean, he's clearly the villain, but you get his point.
00:41:56
Chris Prime
I mean, this is basically like a Dracula thing too.
00:41:59
Zach Sheets
yeah Yeah, I mean, they're basically doing Dracula with the mummy.
00:42:05
Chris Prime
Except like...
00:42:08
Chris Prime
Except Imhotep's pretty, like, better with his whole social appearance. Like, he goes outside, he, you know, he attends social events, he gets in a car.
00:42:17
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:42:59
Zach Sheets
That's definitely not me.
00:43:00
Chris Prime
That's totally not me. Like, look at me. I'm wearing a fez.
00:43:20
Chris Prime
Trying to do some Egyptian magic now.
00:43:33
Chris Prime
Thank you.
00:44:14
Chris Prime
So, okay, not to spoil much, but is this like... Imhotep can be shot? Like... Is it just one of those endings where it's as long as whoever has the gun...
00:44:32
Zach Sheets
it's been It's been a while since I've seen this. I can't remember exactly what happens.
00:44:37
Chris Prime
I mean, most likely fire. That's usually every, like, monstrous thing.
00:44:38
Zach Sheets
Yeah. Yeah.
Magic, Plot, and Historical Inaccuracies
00:44:45
Chris Prime
Oh, he's got, like, a TV.
00:44:48
Zach Sheets
yeah
00:45:27
Zach Sheets
if If he could do everything remotely, like why would he even like need to go anywhere? like He's like giving Sir Joseph a heart attack through through his water TV.
00:45:37
Chris Prime
Well, I'm assuming because it's like he put all his focus on this.
00:45:47
Chris Prime
But, I mean, yeah.
00:45:47
Zach Sheets
probably could like my just mic control someone and give me the scroll and bring it up but to my like temple thing in.
00:45:58
Chris Prime
See? Like how exhausted he is.
00:46:00
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:46:09
Zach Sheets
And he didn't have this like suck anyone's organs out.
00:46:14
Chris Prime
Yeah, not as interesting.
00:46:25
Chris Prime
See, mind controlling this.
00:46:28
Zach Sheets
Yeah, he he turned he turned this guy to his slave now. When he first walked through the door.
00:46:34
Chris Prime
So couldn't he just send the slave to just do this without killing him? But, gotta make a point.
00:47:24
Zach Sheets
Natural causes, like his neck got snapped.
00:47:29
Zach Sheets
Just a natural case of your neck breaking...
00:47:32
Chris Prime
Alone.
00:47:42
Chris Prime
Yeah, your dad's dead. You're just like, what I get kiss that girl with the amnesia?
00:47:45
Zach Sheets
Can I get with that girl? Yeah.
00:48:41
Chris Prime
Not saying this movie moves at a slow pace, but it's as fast as you think a mummy would walk.
00:48:44
Zach Sheets
but
00:48:48
Zach Sheets
It was a different time. This was this a thrill a minute in the thirty s
00:49:12
Zach Sheets
Remember?
00:49:15
Chris Prime
The thing we just introduced like five minutes ago?
00:49:48
Chris Prime
This another famous iconic shot.
00:49:54
Chris Prime
But is he turning back into like more of a mummy? Or just... Yeah, he's never going to put that outfit on.
00:50:02
Zach Sheets
He was like, I did enough makeup for Frankenstein. Just give me like some some less...
00:50:08
Chris Prime
Robes.
00:50:09
Zach Sheets
Yeah, some robes and a little bit to my face.
00:50:16
Chris Prime
she just, like, buy that dog, or...?
00:50:19
Zach Sheets
I bought dog at the local market.
00:50:50
Zach Sheets
Is this like Terminator? Like dogs, 10-cense mummies?
00:50:54
Chris Prime
Yeah. Or like, at least the cat. And then they just took the dog away so that that was done.
00:51:07
Zach Sheets
and I guess he's not afraid of cats like in the... ah The Brendan Fraser mummy.
00:51:28
Zach Sheets
They used to smoke the reefer.
00:51:42
Chris Prime
You know, this was definitely like the second movie of the Brendan Fraser Mummy. They have like the pool. The memory pool.
00:51:51
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:51:52
Chris Prime
But now there's just like a hot tub.
00:51:52
Zach Sheets
Oh, man. Yeah.
00:51:58
Zach Sheets
She's go be fighting with like sighs.
00:52:08
Chris Prime
Meanwhile, in the Paramount backlot...
00:52:56
Chris Prime
Thank
00:53:39
Zach Sheets
Do think this is accurate to like h actually like Egyptian?
00:53:43
Chris Prime
Well, totally not.
00:53:52
Chris Prime
I mean, do you remember, like, the chamber sizes? If you remember the old photography, like, they weren't this big.
00:53:57
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:53:59
Chris Prime
And they definitely didn't have, like, a touch door like this.
00:54:08
Chris Prime
Yeah, when they did, like, the... Exploring the tombs. I remember the folk like the rooms were like the size of like bathrooms of like all this like stuff.
00:54:16
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:54:17
Chris Prime
You pretty much had to be a feral to to get like your own chamber.
00:54:41
Chris Prime
He always does it like in like the corner.
00:54:45
Zach Sheets
It's very important that you do like the posture.
00:54:50
Chris Prime
But like you always have to do it like in the dark and like a weird spot in the room and get caught.
00:54:56
Zach Sheets
All right, you guys got me.
00:55:13
Chris Prime
So this is historically accurate Egyptian history right here. Like the guy who designed pyramids got this.
00:55:19
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:55:29
Zach Sheets
Oh, we get a little bit more Boris Karloff in the bandages.
00:55:49
Chris Prime
man, like, they probably used a lot of, like, real bandages to get to this point, right?
00:55:54
Zach Sheets
Yep, it's like, alright, we got one minute before Boris like suffocates, so let's get the shot.
00:56:39
Zach Sheets
if you're just going to scrape everything off of it, like why would you even just put it to begin with?
00:56:41
Chris Prime
but Why wouldn't... Yeah, why don't you just get, like, another one?
00:56:45
Zach Sheets
Or just like like a a blank... Like a blank cover. It's like, alright, put all those jewels on him, scrape them off. He doesn't deserve them.
00:56:55
Chris Prime
Is it more insulting to scrape it off?
00:56:57
Zach Sheets
Maybe.
00:56:58
Chris Prime
Maybe, like, they always had, like, a version ready, just in case, because he was...
00:57:01
Zach Sheets
That was his.
00:57:03
Chris Prime
Yeah.
00:57:03
Zach Sheets
It's like, son, this is your coffin. This is your sarcophagus when you die.
00:57:08
Chris Prime
Okay, so why would you bury also the scroll with him?
00:57:14
Zach Sheets
I think he said so that no one will ever use it again.
00:57:18
Chris Prime
Wouldn't you separate it? Or do something else?
00:57:24
Chris Prime
Ooh, did the slaves know that?
00:57:33
Zach Sheets
And then the the guys who killed those soldiers killed. those got killed Then those guys got killed.
00:57:40
Chris Prime
In fact, it was a bad plan eventually.
00:57:42
Zach Sheets
Pretty much everyone in Egypt died.
00:57:44
Chris Prime
Wow, so just to bury this guy, like... 30 people had a die.
00:58:27
Zach Sheets
All right.
00:58:33
Chris Prime
And she's just like, do I have to do anything or?
00:58:38
Zach Sheets
Yep. ah
00:58:49
Chris Prime
You know, for this girl's perspective, she just, she hasn't like, s yeah, blacking out.
00:58:53
Zach Sheets
It's like passing out. like She's like losing time.
00:58:57
Chris Prime
Yeah. It just like, kind of like, oh, what am I doing at? Where am I?
00:59:09
Zach Sheets
Her dog is a fulcrum.
00:59:43
Chris Prime
Yeah, maybe if you didn't wear like a full black bodysuit
00:59:46
Zach Sheets
ah Egypt, yeah, like Cairo.
00:59:56
Chris Prime
She forgot already.
01:00:27
Chris Prime
Shake her some more. Shake her to remember.
01:00:31
Zach Sheets
Slapper. Get a hold of yourself.
01:00:41
Chris Prime
Yeah, this is this movie all in her head? Or it's like...
01:00:50
Chris Prime
It would be funny if if like... a lot of this movie is just a hallucination. Like she didn't, she's still at the party.
01:01:10
Chris Prime
Oh, oh boy.
01:01:25
Chris Prime
why Why does it seem like a creep now? like they They purposely put that I love you so at the end of a fade out and it just sounds like a murder is going to happen.
01:01:36
Zach Sheets
I've known you for two days.
01:01:40
Chris Prime
Oh, head injury, Helen. I love you.
01:01:45
Zach Sheets
Because because she reminds him of that but sexy mummy he saw.
01:01:50
Chris Prime
Yeah. like Oh, my God. Did he tell anyone else that he you thought about a sexy mummy?
01:01:57
Zach Sheets
I saw that decaying flesh. was like, oh, man. That's the that's who I love.
01:02:02
Chris Prime
Yeah, of your choices was the creepy guy who's got a thing for a mummy or Arith Bay who like is living a baller like Egyptian ancient Egyptian life.
01:02:07
Zach Sheets
creepy guy who has a thing for a mummy.
01:02:25
Zach Sheets
Take the sopium.
01:03:09
Zach Sheets
It's like Star Wars. like pad It's like, we don't know why she's dying.
01:03:28
Chris Prime
It's only been like three days, man.
01:04:16
Chris Prime
we we still don't really get her as a character, right? Like, she doesn't really do much this movie that we're like, oh, no, that's the evil Helen, or like, pass Helen.
01:04:27
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:04:31
Chris Prime
Like, she mostly just sits in places in this whole movie.
01:04:37
Zach Sheets
And gets like, yeah, like, gets mind-controlled by Imhotep.
01:04:52
Zach Sheets
Welp, I smoked entire pack of cigarettes.
01:05:17
Chris Prime
Bromine. What was bromine back then?
01:05:28
Zach Sheets
Probably mostly like cocaine or something.
01:05:44
Chris Prime
One quick online search, it's mostly used for epilepsy.
01:05:49
Chris Prime
Or swimming in pools like that have been like infected with germs. It's used as a pool disinfectant. That's why like, wait, bromine is very like... I've seen bromine, people use it in things.
01:06:02
Zach Sheets
Yeah,
01:06:13
Chris Prime
Yeah, why didn't you just do this earlier, like backto back
01:06:15
Zach Sheets
yeah. yeah
01:06:31
Zach Sheets
I just need another cigarette.
01:06:43
Chris Prime
Thank
01:07:10
Zach Sheets
Did Eotef break those bars open or who broke those bars open?
01:08:14
Chris Prime
Is it more pool TV time?
01:08:17
Zach Sheets
Look at my tool.
01:08:31
Zach Sheets
a spinning image.
01:09:03
Chris Prime
Yeah, I totally believe that they broke last.
01:09:22
Chris Prime
Like, even in 1932, she's still pretty pale. Like, I could see that in the black and white.
01:09:27
Zach Sheets
whos Look
01:09:30
Chris Prime
And she's like, I am part Egyptian. Like, I guess.
01:09:34
Zach Sheets
at my eyebrows.
01:09:49
Chris Prime
So they're starting an indoor fire. That's cool.
01:09:55
Chris Prime
Oh, it's a chimney.
01:10:02
Chris Prime
Man, they don't make people-sized chimneys anymore. Like, people-sized, like, fireplaces.
01:10:07
Zach Sheets
a walk-in fireplace.
01:10:08
Chris Prime
yeah
01:10:12
Chris Prime
Because, like, nothing ever good happens with a ah fireplace that is the size of, like, I don't know, like a broom closet.
01:10:19
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
01:10:22
Chris Prime
You see it in movies and TV and video games, but if you walk into a place that has that, like, it's not going to good time.
01:10:41
Chris Prime
Thank you.
01:11:14
Zach Sheets
young.
01:11:43
Chris Prime
I don't got an opinion about that. Like, he just... Just stirring the soup.
01:11:48
Zach Sheets
what's It's weird that he burnt like he so he burned the original mummy, but now he has to kill her and then bring her back?
01:12:00
Chris Prime
He wants her like an immortal just like him.
01:12:02
Zach Sheets
Yeah. So you have to like die come back to be like immortal?
01:12:06
Chris Prime
Yeah.
01:12:24
Chris Prime
I got my Dracula of, like, power.
01:12:30
Chris Prime
Also, I don't believe that guy is a,
01:12:36
Chris Prime
Like, from African descent.
01:12:37
Zach Sheets
Anubian?
01:12:38
Chris Prime
Yeah.
01:12:43
Chris Prime
I got a funny feeling they they cut corners there.
01:12:51
Zach Sheets
That was easy.
01:12:52
Chris Prime
Why did you just do that at the beginning?
01:13:26
Chris Prime
Thank
01:13:31
Zach Sheets
Oh, they better hurry. They'll go but like four minutes watch this movie.
01:14:09
Chris Prime
Maybe stop doing poetry and just like get get on with your spells.
01:14:12
Zach Sheets
Do it. Yeah.
01:14:42
Zach Sheets
Very slowly put the knife in
01:14:49
Chris Prime
It's gotta be very precise. It's the like kill move.
01:14:51
Zach Sheets
Yes.
01:14:59
Zach Sheets
Also, the knife doesn't seem very sharp.
01:15:01
Chris Prime
No, it just seemed very blunt.
01:15:02
Zach Sheets
It's just like a blunt stick.
01:15:07
Chris Prime
ah He poked her and the skin didn't break. my eyes. So bright.
01:15:37
Zach Sheets
Not a scarab. Mm-hmm.
01:16:01
Chris Prime
Okay, this is where Boris Karloff was just like, I have to spend hours in the makeup chair for this.
01:16:12
Chris Prime
So if they burnt that scroll in the beginning, this would have just been like over. There would be no movie.
01:16:18
Zach Sheets
Pretty much, yeah.
01:16:27
Zach Sheets
her Her love of three days will bring her back.
01:16:38
Chris Prime
Also, did she get, like, longer hair?
01:16:41
Zach Sheets
The power of ISIS.
01:16:48
Chris Prime
I'm not sure about your version of the movie, but it just, like, like doesn't even show you the end with the skeleton too quick. it just, like, zooms down and that's it.
01:16:56
Zach Sheets
Oh, no, yeah, it's just like you get the barest glimpse of, like, the skeleton. It's just like, the end!
01:17:06
Zach Sheets
Isis killed him!
01:17:09
Chris Prime
Go Isis?
01:17:15
Zach Sheets
ah good guess is worth repeating.
01:17:20
Chris Prime
I mean, I would like more plot, but okay.
01:17:26
Chris Prime
Alright. ah The Mummy. um yeah you get what Once you told me that this movie wasn't based on any existing property besides maybe and i like a fanfic version of Dracula,
01:17:41
Chris Prime
It's like way more of a fanfic version Dracula than I thought.
01:17:45
Zach Sheets
There's just like, well, it yeah, like like Dracula worked. Just do that. Let's do that.
01:17:52
Chris Prime
I get it. Like they didn't figure out the slasher genre of like a menacing figure that just shows up. But having Imhotep just be like some dude who goes out of the way to do like very convoluted plans is just is it's okay.
01:18:07
Zach Sheets
hmm.
01:18:09
Chris Prime
It's very of its time. But I feel like he could have done this in a lot better way. I understand if he spent the time like preparing, getting all the like more equipment and and like doing the ceremonies like like piece by piece in order to like fully curse her.
01:18:29
Chris Prime
He had to keep doing it in order to like really bring her past back. like It's multi-staged. But it seemed like, did he have to go to the museum with the scroll and read in front of her body? Because then it tried to bring her back there. like i think he was trying to do that all in one night.
01:18:49
Zach Sheets
Yeah, I think so.
01:18:53
Chris Prime
And then maybe don't do the curse in the room where the i Iris God is watching that can curse you back. Maybe. And how about that?
01:19:03
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:19:07
Chris Prime
Because understand like if they they killed him by like tricking him or like you know they summon something, something crazy that like isn't in the room. But literally the last minute plot device is that the statue that we didn't know was alive, if you pray to it, it can just come to life and point things at it.
01:19:24
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:19:28
Zach Sheets
Yeah, it's so it's so odd because a lot of the movie really drawn out and then it's like the last five minutes is just like ah and then ah like, and then ah she remembers spells and then the statue comes to life and shoots a beam at him and he dies.
01:19:42
Zach Sheets
That's it.
01:19:42
Chris Prime
Yeah, that seems like nowadays just seems like super bad writing. I get it. Like, they they were still figuring this out. This is still the golden age of Hollywood. And i just feel like they didn't figure out foreshadow yet.
01:19:57
Chris Prime
They kind of got some points right where it's like, okay, hey, we have this assistant. He laughed himself to death off screen. Like, if you've got a question about this, it's off screen. How about this dog? It died off screen. lot of things happen.
01:20:11
Chris Prime
But... In terms of like story like fo viewing, it it just like you need to build up now. like i get that the remake didn't have... like ah like They really underutilized the cat part, which was like, cool, maybe at the end they'll use a cat thing at the end and or something.
01:20:32
Chris Prime
And then in here, it's like... None of that was mentioned. It's not like even they they talked like, okay, well, technically Imhotep was like in defiance of ISIS. And then it's like he's trying to do this under the radar of ISIS.
01:20:49
Chris Prime
I'm not sure if that was mentioned a lot, but I just like it's briefly mentioned that like is ISIS is like ah one of the gods and like. But then you get Bass who's like, oh, no, it's like.
01:21:01
Chris Prime
Bass is demanding this. And the cat represents Bass.
01:21:04
Zach Sheets
Yeah, I don't...
01:21:05
Chris Prime
and That kind of goes nowhere.
01:21:07
Zach Sheets
Yeah, I don't know i don't know how many people in the 1930s really like were like, I understand like all they think like the Egyptian gods. Like Anubis and Osiris and Isis and Bast.
Egyptian Mythology and Film Pacing
01:21:18
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:21:19
Chris Prime
Ra. And then all these cool ones that like are very specific.
01:21:20
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:21:23
Chris Prime
You know, they're just like Greek gods where they're like, okay, this is the god of this one function. It's like, This is the god of pottery. Alright, cool. But like, in in terms of this, they pick and choose when like the magic makes sense.
01:21:38
Chris Prime
Like sometimes the the mummy seems like he has his own power. Like Ardith Bay has his own power to do some psychic like telekinesic attacks to give people heart attacks.
01:21:52
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:21:53
Chris Prime
And then other times, ah he physically like has to like be in the room to do things.
01:22:01
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
01:22:02
Chris Prime
So that's i'm like, why did he need to read the scroll in that room if it was just to do the body? I guess, again'm I'm answering it again. like He's making sure the the soul and the body can reunite.
01:22:15
Chris Prime
And... I don't know. like If that was the case... wouldn't they just, they themselves, the museum people, like, okay, we gotta burn that body.
01:22:25
Chris Prime
Like, if we can't burn the scroll, can we burn the body at least?
01:22:28
Zach Sheets
and
01:22:32
Zach Sheets
but then But then burning the body was part of his plan anyway.
01:22:35
Chris Prime
Okay. Okay, maybe you're right. But I'm also surprised they didn't try to burn him. Like, they they they actually had no plan. They were just gonna go there and be like, hey, you.
01:22:46
Zach Sheets
challenge you fisticuffs.
01:22:50
Chris Prime
So, I mean, at least the, and then really the, once the specialist, the guy who has the occult knowledge, once he explains the rules of like how, what's going on and sort of figuring it out, like he doesn't do anything else.
01:23:06
Chris Prime
He just goes, okay, we have to go there. Frank's like, yeah, we have to go there. Like there's no argument.
01:23:10
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:23:11
Chris Prime
There's no like, um, like I got a Lord dump anything.
01:23:16
Zach Sheets
Yeah, he's definitely not as like ah effective as like Van Helsing.
01:23:21
Chris Prime
But he's not even like a secret society of like mummy hunters or something. It's just like he's very aware about like the gods and sort of like the disrespect that people can do against these like you know Egyptian gods.
01:23:38
Chris Prime
So you don't get a like Oh, he has more tools.
01:23:38
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
01:23:43
Chris Prime
Besides like the the iris like ISIS pendant But that was like it. like Besides the the pendant and then explaining the well like, okay, hey, careful, because he wants Helen helen back.
01:23:58
Chris Prime
It's not like at the end he pulls out something. he should have pulled out the like super weapon or something.
01:24:06
Zach Sheets
yeah or they they Yeah, they find something that like, it's like, oh, well, we got the Ankh, we got this like artifact. Or this magical dagger that we found.
01:24:14
Chris Prime
Or he like
01:24:17
Chris Prime
I mean, or even something stupider where like he flips over the scroll and there's like a last bit of countermeasures on it.
01:24:23
Zach Sheets
Hmm.
01:24:24
Chris Prime
Where the scroll, if you read it, awakens the mummy, but if you like do the opposite or like you know say the spell backwards, maybe it does something different.
01:24:39
Chris Prime
don't know. never really understood hieroglyphics sometimes. I just know it's like symbols and then it's like, alright, how does it make sense? But I don't it could be a cipher in it. He figures out here's like the anti-life equation.
01:24:58
Chris Prime
What do you think?
01:25:02
Zach Sheets
Yeah, I will... The thing about this one is like... like i It's... Boriskov's great, obviously. But it's it's weird that he's not... The most iconic thing... like All the posters and everything is like him and like the bandages. And it's only like that first scene.
01:25:16
Zach Sheets
which That's like a and a super odd part about it. And then... yeah i mean even Even compared to the other Universal Monsters movies... I feel like it's a little bit... It's a little slow.
01:25:29
Zach Sheets
like i feel like it's more going on with like Dracula Frankenstein. The Vizal Man.
01:25:35
Chris Prime
Yeah, I think I like more modern interpretations of the mummy, where it's, he is like a smart zombie, and then even then it's like, he's trying to like, uncurse himself more than being mindless.
01:25:36
Zach Sheets
The Wolfman.
01:25:50
Zach Sheets
I think like the you know like like the the three, like the the mummy's hand, the mummy's tomb, and the mummy's ghost, I think those are more like ah butre but like what you're thinking.
01:26:01
Zach Sheets
like it's like um It's like a guy in bandages the entire time, and this mummy's stalking around like killing people.
01:26:04
Chris Prime
Mm-hmm.
01:26:08
Chris Prime
Yeah, think I'm used to that. So, like, I mean, that's just the template I think of. I mean, I don't mind going back to the original here to see it, but... Like, it's a hard watch for just, like, my mind, you know?
Reflection on Classic Status
01:26:22
Chris Prime
I think um if I was on a movie marathon and you want to slow down the horror for a bit and go, like, slow-paced and more classical, I could see this more. Man, I don't know how I watched some of this as a kid, you know?
01:26:40
Chris Prime
and I don't know, maybe because of like I couldn't relate to any of the main heroes.
01:26:45
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:26:45
Chris Prime
I don't like Frank. He's way too creepy now.
01:26:48
Zach Sheets
Yep.
01:26:56
Zach Sheets
Like, Helen yeah helen's just is like just you know fainting. so Then, like, Sir Joseph and Dr. Mueller are just like, We're scientists.
01:27:09
Zach Sheets
We'll observe this.
01:27:14
Zach Sheets
let's yeah but let's like We'll study it, and then we'll come up with a plan.
01:27:17
Chris Prime
They want to like always take stuff out and then it's like, well, we don't care about the implications. We just want to put in a museum. So it's like, okay, they aren't good.
01:27:30
Chris Prime
But I like like kind of like the the world of it. It's so like of the era of the 30s. I can imagine it's because it's like 1931.
01:27:42
Chris Prime
in the story where they're just like, hello, we're here to grab your stuff. Goodbye. they just throw parties about like digging.
01:27:51
Chris Prime
We live in a modern era. It's like, can you imagine we just, it's like, oh, can we go to this museum party that's celebrating archaeological digs?
01:27:59
Zach Sheets
that we found a mummy
01:28:04
Chris Prime
did Did we dig up all the mummies in Egypt? Is that why we don't really hear about this anymore?
01:28:14
Zach Sheets
Yeah, maybe maybe all maybe all the major ones are found, and then also it's just like, now it's like... It's it's that it's not cool to go to another country and steal their artifacts.
01:28:23
Chris Prime
Yeah, maybe that.
01:28:32
Chris Prime
Alright, any closing thoughts?
01:28:33
Zach Sheets
But yeah. I mean, yeah, it's i mean it's still a classic. It's still a Universal Monster classic. like as I don't know if I would... like put this is like I'd probably put this like the middle of like Universal Monster movies
01:28:45
Chris Prime
Yeah, like, it's not boring enough to hate it. And it's not... And it's not, like... I think Dracula did it better.
01:28:55
Zach Sheets
earth
01:28:55
Chris Prime
um And Boyle's call-off is cool, like, in this. his You just want him to do more from what you expect this monster character.
01:28:59
Zach Sheets
yeah
01:29:04
Chris Prime
He just roams around, enters doorways, creeps out, like, people.
01:29:10
Zach Sheets
Stares at, just like standing there staring at Helen for who knows how long. They're staring at each other. It's like, oh, there's other people in the room? Get out of here. I'm staring at her.
01:29:22
Chris Prime
It's my stare time. So, you know, I could see that, like, the inspirations that they want. And it's a classic for a reason.
01:29:35
Chris Prime
I really want to state that. So it's a movie fans, like, kind of, you need to watch this to appreciate the other things. I just feel like this movie only makes sense now to rewatch this if you're, like, really having a movie marath horror movie night or, like, a...
01:29:51
Chris Prime
you want to throw something in the background to kind of just, I don't know, listen to once in a while. Like, i don't think you need to see this whole movie again. Just see like the last 20 minutes.
01:30:03
Zach Sheets
or just or Or see where they get like so see where like ah but some of the the elements from like the Brenda Fraser one came from.
01:30:09
Chris Prime
Yeah, I think that, that too. I think, if it's kind of like Star Wars, where, like, what order do you watch it in? Do you watch it the timeline, the chronology, or do you watch it in the theater presentation cut?
01:30:25
Chris Prime
Or the renegade cut? You know, like, all these different ways that you can interpret it. For me, though, I think if you're gonna watch the new, like, Brendan Fraser Mummy again, watching this and then going to see the other Mummy movies, it's, like, a crazy experience. You're like, whoa, look at the leaps and the inspiration.
01:30:42
Zach Sheets
Yeah, feel I feel like the like in in the Brendan Fraser movie, like the the scene where like they're like turning Imhotep into a mummy is like literally like almost shot for shot from like the this one. Arnold Vosso's doing the same kind of like like crazy eye. like They're like wrapping his mouth up and is's like he's like freaking out
01:31:00
Chris Prime
so like I appreciate a movie that does that well. I'm surprised this thing get more like eyes on it when the Brendan Fraser mummy got like hyped and stuff. like This should been on TV more.
01:31:13
Zach Sheets
I'm trying to remember. I think it was like 97. It was like that like the like the Universal like Revival kind of. Like the all the like they had like the monsters were or like back. were trying to make them... like It's like, the Universal Monsters are back, everybody. They're on Doritos and Pepsi and postage stamps.
01:31:31
Chris Prime
Yeah, but like it was just hard to watch it. like i As a kid, it's just like, oh, I hope it's on TV.
01:31:33
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
01:31:36
Chris Prime
You gotta get that this week's TV guide.
01:31:42
Zach Sheets
There's bunch of VHS like releases. There's like like i know like four or five different sets over the years.
01:31:52
Zach Sheets
But those those those new 4K, the Universal Monster 4Ks are pretty good. like The movies look great, and ah there's like a bunch of special features on them. So I would i would definitely say check those out.
01:32:06
Zach Sheets
i think I think the first set has the Mummy on it. like The first one's like Mummy, Dracula, before I get started, creature from the Lagoon.
01:32:18
Chris Prime
I mean, again, it Appreciate the classics. Just I feel like this age is kind of it, you know, like it's for movie fans first. Because it's hard to be like, hey, you like mummy movies. How about a mummy movie where like the you only see one mummy?
01:32:36
Zach Sheets
Yeah, he's a mummy. When you think of him as a mummy, he's like the first... five minutes.
01:32:44
Zach Sheets
But that's, but it's it's, it's so good. Like the makeup so good. that It's like, it became the like the iconic thing for the movie. It's just like the the one scene of Boris Karloff and that makeup.
01:32:59
Zach Sheets
But, uh, yeah, so think that'll do it for this month's commentary. I'll be back next month with another commentary. However, I say all of our usual stuff there. We got news, reviews, trailers, all kinds of stuff. Um, we got our PAX East article ah that went up this month as well. as seen students That was like our big event from like, actually, I mean, end of March, but mostly it was also like into into April. So you can, you know, read ah what we checked out at that big con and all the other usual stuff's up there as well. so i check all the stuff out.
01:33:30
Zach Sheets
And yeah, so for Chris, I'm Zach, and we will see you next time.