Dashing legionnaire Rick O’Connell (Brendan Fraser) stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since former High Priest Imhotep suffered a fate worse than death as a punishment for a forbidden love — along with a curse that guarantees eternal doom upon the world if he is ever awoken. When the proof of Hamunaptra ends up in the hands of aspiring Egyptologist Evelyn Carnahan (Rachel Weisz) and her kinda slimy brother Jonathan (John Hannah), the three must escape the revenge of the risen Imhotep while trying to secure their own treasure.

In (Western) folklore and in film, mummies often carry with them a curse. The Mummy carried its own kind of curse; various creatives had been trying to update the 1932 Boris Karloff Mummy for decades, but nobody could crack it. George Romero did a treatment. Clive Barker wrote a dark, arcane, psychosexual version (shocker). Joe Dante was briefly attached to a version with the Mummy as a menacing, unstoppable terror like the Terminator. Eventually, writer/director Stephen Sommers developed a version that used Indiana Jones and the two-fisted adventure movies of the ‘60s and ‘70s as a main influence, and the rest is history.

This screening is held in the Historic Duncan Auditorium. This space utilizes open seating for this event, seat selection is not required.

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