The sheer cultural ramifications, not to mention the historical damage the practices of the of the early "Archeologists" makes me cry out in horror. The mummy was not the monster in this situation.
How do you feel about the digging up of Prehistoric and/or fossilized bones from the graves of the Neanderthals??? Seems like just because they were about 15000 years earlier, they would deserve the same feelings.
@@Capohanf1 huh? The Neanderthal and Denisovian remains were preserved and studied. The egyptian mummies on the other hand were turned into medicine of dubious utility.
@@Capohanf1 that's a completely nonsensical comparison. The idea that studying neolithic sites is basically the same as ransacking ancient civilizations selling artifacts to the highest bidder and then EATING their corpses are comparable shows a lack of critical thinking. Especially when you think for even a moment about why those people took such care to preserve their dead for the afterlife, only to be eaten by Victorians with more money than sense. There are ethical discussions to be had about keeping human remains in museums but at the very least curators aren't grinding them down to make paint.
One the most interesting things for me is how the Mummy can vary from a mindless shambling dried out zombie, and one the weaker seeming of the classic movie monsters, to a nigh unstoppable sorcerer with powers requiring divine intervention to defeat.
The actor Arnold Vosloo (who played Imhotep in the 1999 Mummy movie) once remarked that there's actually nothing scary about mummies as they're presented in horror movies. They"re so slow that you can easily outpace them. You don't even have to run.
It’s really interesting actually even from a non mythological perspective. Because mummies really are just bodies that have passed the test of time . Thus there can be natural mummies in environments with extreme heat or in dump environments such as northern countries . Although a comparison as you said would be ideal
I could be wrong, but Caitlin Doughty(sp?) aka Ask a Mortician might have a video on this, or a chapter in one of her books. She talks about death rites in much detail. One of my favorite channels!
When talking about the Epic monster otherwise known as "The Mummy" Jane Loudon is not mentioned nearly as much as she should be and she really does deserve more credit in the monster fandom community
I was hoping you finally get to mummies and how they became one of the undead monsters in media like ghosts, zombies, and vampires. Plus it's kind of both sad, and a bit disturbing, that many mummies were lost to time due to using them as medicine. Like how many dinosaur fossils before we started doing paleontology, were grounded up for pharmaceuticals.
It's also interesting how both zombies and mummies went from a respected aspect of their respective cultures to something of terror barely appreciated. The first time I heard about the true concept of a zombie was actually on Science Friday and how it was less mindless and more drug-induced "mind control"
Excellent video! I've always liked the Karloff mummy best. Karloff was a marvelous actor who made the characters he played more real than most actors of his generation. The way the Victorians treated mummies and Egyptian artifacts and culture was shameful. You can't blame the fictional mummies for attacking and consuming the Victorians. They were just responding in the same way the Victorians treated them!
As a history/anthropology nerd and a generally compassionate human being, hearing how the corspes of Ancient Egyptains were treated by Europeans made me sick to my stomach. These people were ripped from their resting places, sailed across the ocean to be either examined without any diginity to people who didn't care about their name and THEN EATEN OR TURNED INTO MEDICINE. When you take in account how the Ancient Egyptians viewed their afterlife and the relation to the body, it gets even worse. Absolutely horrifiying.
I'm so excited you did a mummy video!! The mummy is my favorite of the universal horror films and I'm sure like many here I was obsessed with ancient Egypt after getting one of those golden ancient Egypt history books as a kid.
Thank you so much again Monstrum for making this video! It has been so long since I was last in touch with my fascination towards Ancient Egyptian culture. I have to admit that looking back on what I've learned about mummies, I find the practice of unwrapping mummies and using them as "medicine" to be disrespectful. Right now, I hope that those beings could finally rest in peace and be treated with better respect.
Not exactly related to this particular episode, but I feel like an episode looking at the monsters of dungeons and dragons could be really interesting. The original ones and the creatures lifted from folklore across the world. Also how the game represents a modern form of communal oral storytelling intimately intertwined with the monsters and stories of our past
@@SanjayMerchant Not necessarily. Orcs, Goblins, Kobolds, Elves, Dwarves, Satyr, Unicorns, Pegasi, Hags, Merfolk, etc all come from our mythology, yet appear in D&D. If one avoids the "exclusive" monsters, there's no legal issue.
@@Mr.HotDogShirtGuy Origins are a dollar store dinosaur toy, a skull with roots growing through it, and I dunno. Definitly have some interesting real world history though.
The sheer number of bodies lost to stupidity and artifacts lost to greed whose where abouts remain unknown and could be sitting in thrift stores, private collections, discarded as mistaken for replica, or sitting in safes is all so staggering.
This is fascinating. When I heard that some cultures dig up their dead ancestors I was at first horrified. Seeing videos like this does take off some off the horror.
Karloff's version of the Mummy has always been my favorite. Unlike most portrayals of the mummy, he actually doesn't seem to care about the archaeologists who dug him up; he doesn't harm the archaeologist's assistant who inadvertently brought him back to life, rather it's implied that his insanity was caused by the curse that the people who entombed the mummy put on it, not the mummy himself. Karloff's mummy isn't particularly malicious, either, with his main goal to be reunited with his lover, and only gets murderous when it's necessary for his plan. And even if it's based on a gross misunderstanding of Ancient Egyptian spiritual practices, I do think it's cool that the mummy was not defeated by either of the male leads, but instead by the *female* lead praying for intercession from a *female* goddess. Quite progressive for 1932.
The 2001 Mummy movie was done was a great rewrite of the script of the original universal horror movies. I was that kid looking into encyclopedias reading about Egypt.
Love your conclusions about mummies threatening those who seek to commercialize or literally consume them! Ha! It always tickles me to think about those proper upperclass folk back in the day essentially cannibalizing mummies as a cure for their illnesses. I’d be interested to hear more of your analysis on female mummies being so common in the early days of the trope! I hadn’t heard really anything about that until this video.
When I was in the first grade (beginning of 1980s) I wore a store-bought plastic "The Mummy" costume for my school's Halloween party and school parade in which I won "Scariest Costume." lol.
Fantastic episode about the origins of mummy monsters in cinema!! We should collaborate and make something epic for the folklore and mythology community (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Thank you for not using the Tom Cruise mummy film. When you showed the first movie clip all I was thinking the whole video was "please don't show the Tom Cruise version" lol
Merfolk were touched upon in the episode on Sirens, but that's not the same as having an entire dedicated episode I guess. Vampires in general were covered much more in the Dracula episode.
You should really do your research, because then you'd know that there has already been a bunch of episodes on quite a few monsters/urban legends you mentioned.
"He was to remain sealed within his Sarcophagus, the Undead for all eternity. The Medjai would never allow him to be released, for he would arise a walking disease, a plague upon mankind, an unholy flesh eater with the strength of ages, power over the sands, and the glory of invincibility." -- Ardeth Bay
Excellent video! My favorite mummy story is probably Mummy Daddy in 1985 Spielberg produced serie Amazing Stories: "A dedicated actor in a realistic mummy costume that he can't take off is shooting a movie in a swamp. When he hears his wife is in labor, he runs towards the town but the local rednecks think he's the real deal and form a posse." (IMDB). Both funny and scary. Must watch 😇
Was kinda hoping for a mention of the obscure "Mummies Alive" cartoon that aired briefly in the 90's. I barely remember it, but it actually had a fresh spin on mummies as good guys, in that it was like a fish-out-of-water story about a squad of royal mummies who return to aid and protect the descendant of Ramsis (a kid because all protagonists were kids in that era). It was basically mummies as super heroes, which was an idea different enough to stick with me for years.
I love hearing Americans say local names! I'm Welsh and not too far from Caernarfon and we tend to almost drop the first r and pronounce it more like 'cunarfen' or 'canarfen' Love the video!
First, the opening makes you look like a Lovecraftian protagonist hunting the ancient secrets of forbidden lore. Second, as a former anthropology major, the 19th century stories of egyptologists, makes me twitch and recoil in horror. Ugh, just... so much history lost. Mummy brown, well, the 19th century version, was just baffling to me that it was a thing. Just... so bizarre.
I didn't have time to watch the whole video, but it is ironic that the Egyptians did not perceive mummies as being animated or walking. They believed that there were three (some say five) components of the soul. The dead could return to be among the living, but it would be the Ka that a human might see. Mummies and statuary were repositories for the Ka which needed a body--or a semblance thereof--to stay "alive." The Ka also needed food and drink. And the movies that show people being mummified as punishment is pure bunkum. Mummification was to preserve the body so the elements of the soul could live in the afterlife. Had Egyptians wanted to punish someone, they would have left the person to rot or to be torn apart by animals; oblivion was worse than punishment in the afterlife.
We definitely still had an Egyptian thing in Britain in the 90s - at primary school Ancient Egypt was on the history curriculum, and even the small museum in my home town, Bolton, had an Egyptian section
My all-time favourite Anne Rice book is not about a vampire; it's "The Mummy: Or, Ramses The Damned". I had it on tape being read by Michael York, and I played it to death (it started to squeak for mercy).
First off, looking beautiful as always Dr. Z. Secondly, love the info and the history you provide in your videos. Yours is one of my favorite TH-cam channels, thank you!
It's interesting how she brought up the fact that mummies are real people's dead bodies and were mistreated by people who took them out of their resting places. I've never thought about this before 🤔
3:09-3:37 I recognize that melody from Dropout's "Gods of Food" Mockumentary! "The Four Seasons, L'inverno (Winter), Concerto 4, Op. 8, RV 297, Alegro Mon Molto".
Thank you for covering The Mummy! I always wondered whether a Mummy was a reanimated body like a zombie, that can be destroyed by striking the head, or is it reanimated by a spirit, and needed to be put down with an exorcism. Maybe I'm asking the wrong question. I still don't seem to have any definitive answer. But thank you for trying!
This is a stupid but real fear I had as a child, but my dad had me watch the 1999 film 'The Mummy' which gave me nightmares of Mummies chasing me, glad I've shook the fear off but still...wasn't a pleasant part of my childhood.
The mummy has appeared in Doctor Who several times between the Original series and the updated. The two I love the most are Tom Baker's "Pyramids of Mars" and Peter Capaldi's "Mummy on the Oriental Express" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramids_of_Mars EXTRA: Mic Jaggers home was used as the backdrop for this episode en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_on_the_Orient_Express)
I’d like to see a video the impact Tyrannosaurus Rex has had in monster movies. Considering that’ Trex is one of the ultimate monsters of our childhoods, I think it would be cool to pay some respects to the King Of The Dinosaurs.
Is there any particular reason as to why we don't get the best stories before and during Halloween season? It's like they always wait till right after Halloween to hit us with the best shows
I support this idea, and also I'll give you a preview on what the Jack and the Beanstalk episode will be like: You might notice that a LOT of old fairy tales from across Europe star a main character named "Jack" - that's not a coincidence! They're all meant to be the same guy! Absolutely the same character. Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack & Jill, Jack Horner, Jack be nimble Jack be quick, Jack O'Lantern (that one started out as an Irish legend before it was a Halloween tradition) and several others. "Jack" is more or less a trickster archetype, comparable to the African folklore character "Anansi" or the character "Coyote" as is celebrated by many Native American tribes, meaning that Jack is often rewarded not for being good or kind, but by being clever and outwitting his foes.
Even choosing Imhotep is a hint at the western imperialist view. Imhotep was a scribe and architect who designed the great step pyramids who was then deified. Why was he made the bad guy and not say, Amunhotep III who burned the ruling class of a cananite city alive in a pit? Or the super imperialist Ramesids?
Man, mummies had it rough no wonder they want us to suffer in cinema and on Halloween I mean they were turned into firewood and were left to disintegrate at parties for crying out sakes!!!
Hey Dr. Z, I don’t know if she’s still around the department but if she is Professor Dahliwal could be a treasure trove of information about Slavic folklore. Invite her to a cheeseburger at the Chuckbox, just a suggestion.
Please make a video of The Invisible Man ,the Gillman from the creatures of black Lagoon, giant, dwarf, elf, Mokele-mbembe, the dobhar-chu and cat-sith. 🧝♂️🧝♀️🦕
The sheer cultural ramifications, not to mention the historical damage the practices of the of the early "Archeologists" makes me cry out in horror. The mummy was not the monster in this situation.
The monster never is in gothic horror.
How do you feel about the digging up of Prehistoric and/or fossilized bones from the graves of the Neanderthals??? Seems like just because they were about 15000 years earlier, they would deserve the same feelings.
@@Capohanf1 huh? The Neanderthal and Denisovian remains were preserved and studied. The egyptian mummies on the other hand were turned into medicine of dubious utility.
@@Capohanf1 , 100% agree. This is basicly a point for people to publicly say something but do nothing.
@@Capohanf1 that's a completely nonsensical comparison. The idea that studying neolithic sites is basically the same as ransacking ancient civilizations selling artifacts to the highest bidder and then EATING their corpses are comparable shows a lack of critical thinking. Especially when you think for even a moment about why those people took such care to preserve their dead for the afterlife, only to be eaten by Victorians with more money than sense. There are ethical discussions to be had about keeping human remains in museums but at the very least curators aren't grinding them down to make paint.
One the most interesting things for me is how the Mummy can vary from a mindless shambling dried out zombie, and one the weaker seeming of the classic movie monsters, to a nigh unstoppable sorcerer with powers requiring divine intervention to defeat.
The sorcerer nonsense came in the modern era
The actor Arnold Vosloo (who played Imhotep in the 1999 Mummy movie) once remarked that there's actually nothing scary about mummies as they're presented in horror movies. They"re so slow that you can easily outpace them. You don't even have to run.
Yes, just walk a little more quickly. Or at a regular pace, really.
It's all about stamina.
Course he ended up playing a mummy that would just start sending sandstorms after you...
That's why you put good boots on Amumu. 😉🤣😭
You say that until they got magic and stuff
I remember mummies being huge in the 90s. There was the Mummy franchise, Mummies Alive, even an episode of Buffy with an Aztec mummy.
I remember Mummies Alive! It would be nice to see a live action but then again I don't want them to ruin it.
Would be great to see a comparison of mummification myths/processes throughout the world
It’s really interesting actually even from a non mythological perspective. Because mummies really are just bodies that have passed the test of time . Thus there can be natural mummies in environments with extreme heat or in dump environments such as northern countries . Although a comparison as you said would be ideal
I could be wrong, but Caitlin Doughty(sp?) aka Ask a Mortician might have a video on this, or a chapter in one of her books. She talks about death rites in much detail. One of my favorite channels!
When talking about the Epic monster otherwise known as "The Mummy" Jane Loudon is not mentioned nearly as much as she should be and she really does deserve more credit in the monster fandom community
I was hoping you finally get to mummies and how they became one of the undead monsters in media like ghosts, zombies, and vampires. Plus it's kind of both sad, and a bit disturbing, that many mummies were lost to time due to using them as medicine. Like how many dinosaur fossils before we started doing paleontology, were grounded up for pharmaceuticals.
It's also interesting how both zombies and mummies went from a respected aspect of their respective cultures to something of terror barely appreciated. The first time I heard about the true concept of a zombie was actually on Science Friday and how it was less mindless and more drug-induced "mind control"
Really sad that the people of Egypt lost so much of they're historical patrimonyum.
Excellent video! I've always liked the Karloff mummy best. Karloff was a marvelous actor who made the characters he played more real than most actors of his generation.
The way the Victorians treated mummies and Egyptian artifacts and culture was shameful. You can't blame the fictional mummies for attacking and consuming the Victorians. They were just responding in the same way the Victorians treated them!
As a history/anthropology nerd and a generally compassionate human being, hearing how the corspes of Ancient Egyptains were treated by Europeans made me sick to my stomach. These people were ripped from their resting places, sailed across the ocean to be either examined without any diginity to people who didn't care about their name and THEN EATEN OR TURNED INTO MEDICINE. When you take in account how the Ancient Egyptians viewed their afterlife and the relation to the body, it gets even worse. Absolutely horrifiying.
they've dehumanized frankly the entire humanity. they're the only kind of people that thrived off being intrusive and dehumanization. Just appalling
I'm so excited you did a mummy video!! The mummy is my favorite of the universal horror films and I'm sure like many here I was obsessed with ancient Egypt after getting one of those golden ancient Egypt history books as a kid.
Thank you so much again Monstrum for making this video! It has been so long since I was last in touch with my fascination towards Ancient Egyptian culture. I have to admit that looking back on what I've learned about mummies, I find the practice of unwrapping mummies and using them as "medicine" to be disrespectful. Right now, I hope that those beings could finally rest in peace and be treated with better respect.
I taught humans about mummification but they turned it into a horror movie genre...now where's my popcorn?
- Anubis
Not exactly related to this particular episode, but I feel like an episode looking at the monsters of dungeons and dragons could be really interesting. The original ones and the creatures lifted from folklore across the world. Also how the game represents a modern form of communal oral storytelling intimately intertwined with the monsters and stories of our past
Hey, there's Mummies in D&D! Including fermented ones. I've got to watch that video sometime.
Owlbear! Mindflayer! Beholder! These are some iconic monsters. I think it’s an interesting idea!
@@Mr.HotDogShirtGuy Well, for those Momstrum is going to need to consult an attorney who understands Fair Use.
@@SanjayMerchant Not necessarily. Orcs, Goblins, Kobolds, Elves, Dwarves, Satyr, Unicorns, Pegasi, Hags, Merfolk, etc all come from our mythology, yet appear in D&D. If one avoids the "exclusive" monsters, there's no legal issue.
@@Mr.HotDogShirtGuy Origins are a dollar store dinosaur toy, a skull with roots growing through it, and I dunno. Definitly have some interesting real world history though.
The sheer number of bodies lost to stupidity and artifacts lost to greed whose where abouts remain unknown and could be sitting in thrift stores, private collections, discarded as mistaken for replica, or sitting in safes is all so staggering.
This is fascinating. When I heard that some cultures dig up their dead ancestors I was at first horrified. Seeing videos like this does take off some off the horror.
14:00 give the sound tech or VA who was told "just make mummy sounds" a bonus
6:53 There's a Radio drama version of The Ring of Thoth from a series called Escape, starring Mr. Dragnet himself Jack Webb.
Karloff's version of the Mummy has always been my favorite. Unlike most portrayals of the mummy, he actually doesn't seem to care about the archaeologists who dug him up; he doesn't harm the archaeologist's assistant who inadvertently brought him back to life, rather it's implied that his insanity was caused by the curse that the people who entombed the mummy put on it, not the mummy himself. Karloff's mummy isn't particularly malicious, either, with his main goal to be reunited with his lover, and only gets murderous when it's necessary for his plan.
And even if it's based on a gross misunderstanding of Ancient Egyptian spiritual practices, I do think it's cool that the mummy was not defeated by either of the male leads, but instead by the *female* lead praying for intercession from a *female* goddess. Quite progressive for 1932.
The 2001 Mummy movie was done was a great rewrite of the script of the original universal horror movies. I was that kid looking into encyclopedias reading about Egypt.
Love your conclusions about mummies threatening those who seek to commercialize or literally consume them! Ha! It always tickles me to think about those proper upperclass folk back in the day essentially cannibalizing mummies as a cure for their illnesses. I’d be interested to hear more of your analysis on female mummies being so common in the early days of the trope! I hadn’t heard really anything about that until this video.
When I was in the first grade (beginning of 1980s) I wore a store-bought plastic "The Mummy" costume for my school's Halloween party and school parade in which I won "Scariest Costume." lol.
Fantastic episode about the origins of mummy monsters in cinema!! We should collaborate and make something epic for the folklore and mythology community (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Please do it! I love watching both of your channels and a collab would be very entertaining and informative. ❤
You watch this channel, J S?! This is the first time I saw a youtuber comment inside of someone else's video.
That would blow my mind
Thank you for not using the Tom Cruise mummy film. When you showed the first movie clip all I was thinking the whole video was "please don't show the Tom Cruise version" lol
Loved learning more about mummies and how they became popular in Hollywood! Perfect timing with the new discoveries happening in Egypt right now!
I would like all these chapters to be in the future seasons of Monstrum.
*Sea Serpents
*Leviathan
*The Headless Horseman ✅
*Phantom Vehicles
*Boogeyman
*Ghosts
*Possessed Dolls
*Shadow People
*Undead
*Goblins
*Bigfoot
*Man-Eating Plants ✅
*Creepy Clowns
*Killer Robots
*Swamp Monsters
*The Mummy ✅️
*Scarecrows
*The Invisible Man
*Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
*Merfolk
*Demons
*Skeletons
*Stingy Jack (Jack of The Lantern)
*Gnomes
*Sea Monsters that attacked Submarines
*Alien Abductions ✅
*Ogres
*Ghouls
*Lich
*Cyborgs
*Witches
*Kaiju
*Cthulhu ✅
*The Rake
*Revenants
*Vampires
*Dagon
*Ogopogo
*Colossal Claude
*Spectral Carriages
*Kappa
*Flatwoods Monster
Merfolk were touched upon in the episode on Sirens, but that's not the same as having an entire dedicated episode I guess.
Vampires in general were covered much more in the Dracula episode.
You should really do your research, because then you'd know that there has already been a bunch of episodes on quite a few monsters/urban legends you mentioned.
@@monstersociety3360 There are many varieties of vampires not just the Dracula's species.
She’s already done one on kaijū.
She has already done some of it.
"He was to remain sealed within his Sarcophagus, the Undead for all eternity. The Medjai would never allow him to be released, for he would arise a walking disease, a plague upon mankind, an unholy flesh eater with the strength of ages, power over the sands, and the glory of invincibility." -- Ardeth Bay
Excellent video! My favorite mummy story is probably Mummy Daddy in 1985 Spielberg produced serie Amazing Stories:
"A dedicated actor in a realistic mummy costume that he can't take off is shooting a movie in a swamp. When he hears his wife is in labor, he runs towards the town but the local rednecks think he's the real deal and form a posse." (IMDB).
Both funny and scary. Must watch 😇
Was kinda hoping for a mention of the obscure "Mummies Alive" cartoon that aired briefly in the 90's. I barely remember it, but it actually had a fresh spin on mummies as good guys, in that it was like a fish-out-of-water story about a squad of royal mummies who return to aid and protect the descendant of Ramsis (a kid because all protagonists were kids in that era).
It was basically mummies as super heroes, which was an idea different enough to stick with me for years.
I remember "Mummies Alive" too, would love to see a reboot/remake.
I love hearing Americans say local names! I'm Welsh and not too far from Caernarfon and we tend to almost drop the first r and pronounce it more like 'cunarfen' or 'canarfen'
Love the video!
First, the opening makes you look like a Lovecraftian protagonist hunting the ancient secrets of forbidden lore.
Second, as a former anthropology major, the 19th century stories of egyptologists, makes me twitch and recoil in horror. Ugh, just... so much history lost.
Mummy brown, well, the 19th century version, was just baffling to me that it was a thing. Just... so bizarre.
I didn't have time to watch the whole video, but it is ironic that the Egyptians did not perceive mummies as being animated or walking. They believed that there were three (some say five) components of the soul. The dead could return to be among the living, but it would be the Ka that a human might see. Mummies and statuary were repositories for the Ka which needed a body--or a semblance thereof--to stay "alive." The Ka also needed food and drink.
And the movies that show people being mummified as punishment is pure bunkum. Mummification was to preserve the body so the elements of the soul could live in the afterlife. Had Egyptians wanted to punish someone, they would have left the person to rot or to be torn apart by animals; oblivion was worse than punishment in the afterlife.
I always love the bloopers at the end, and great content as usual!
We definitely still had an Egyptian thing in Britain in the 90s - at primary school Ancient Egypt was on the history curriculum, and even the small museum in my home town, Bolton, had an Egyptian section
The way they treated these remains was just appalling.
Perhaps it was the Victorians' way of showing cultural and scientific domination over people from outside their countries.
The mummy is my all-time favorite monster. It lead me to an interest in ancient Egypt
Thank God that Many Anthropologists still follow the required Moral standards and Respect for the Cultures of Study, especially Egyptology.
And also popular toys and dolls like Cleo De Nile and her Sister Nefera De Nile from the Monster High franchise
This, this is why I keep coming back to youtube
I was gonna bring up a daddy joke but I'm too wrapped up writing this comment.
Why daddy and not just dad mate
I hate you, take my like
Borris Karloff may have been the iconic mummy, but Brendan Frazier was the iconic daddy.
Will you do a monstrum video on dinosaurs? Their bones have inspired a good amount of our mythology and are now used in sci-fi and horror.
I know she did do an episode of fossils that inspired monsters. Or, collaborated with SciShow on one
@Cec9e13 could you send a link to that video, please ?
@@colonelhammerhead3025 th-cam.com/video/Do-ihwWeS3Y/w-d-xo.html I stand slightly corrected, it was a collaboration with PBS Eons.
@@colonelhammerhead3025 a specifically dinosaur-centric one would be cool.
My all-time favourite Anne Rice book is not about a vampire; it's "The Mummy: Or, Ramses The Damned". I had it on tape being read by Michael York, and I played it to death (it started to squeak for mercy).
im in love with Dr. Z i could watch her outtakes all day.
One thing that nobody talks about with Lord Carnarvan is that the reason he was in Egypt in the first place was because he was in poor health already.
2:01 Well, I was eating. Now I'm not.
I love this channel sooo Much 😊 Thank you for existing
You should cover The Flying Dutchman.
I guess not many are familiar with this story, tale. Especially not in usa
@@aka99 Yeah, the only things I know about it is a pirate song by the jolly Rogers and that one Scooby Doo movie.
Apparently, people used to make - of all things - PAINT out of mummies. When I found that out, it blew my mind!
First off, looking beautiful as always Dr. Z. Secondly, love the info and the history you provide in your videos. Yours is one of my favorite TH-cam channels, thank you!
It's interesting how she brought up the fact that mummies are real people's dead bodies and were mistreated by people who took them out of their resting places. I've never thought about this before 🤔
Thanks for another great video, Dr. Z.
3:09-3:37 I recognize that melody from Dropout's "Gods of Food" Mockumentary! "The Four Seasons, L'inverno (Winter), Concerto 4, Op. 8, RV 297, Alegro Mon Molto".
Mummy issues... it's therapy all over again.
Great as usual, Dr. Z!!! Thanx!!!!
Another interesting episode. I particularly enjoyed the pronounciation of Carnarvon.
I would like more of these videos, I love Monstrum
No amount of sugar will make that medicine go down in a delightful way. Unless your name is Hannibal Lector, I guess...
Speaking of Sugar, do you know what happend to the bones of the fallen in the waterloobattle about 20 years after 1815? 😉
Fascinating! As an amateur magician, I didn’t know the origin of Egyptian Hall
Man, little more than a minute in, and already I'm blown away. This is gonna be a good one.
Great timing, Doctor Zarka: I'm working on a mummy novel right now, so this was quite relevant to the story.
They were also robots in the Doctor Who episode Pyramids of Mars. (1975).
Thank you for covering The Mummy! I always wondered whether a Mummy was a reanimated body like a zombie, that can be destroyed by striking the head, or is it reanimated by a spirit, and needed to be put down with an exorcism. Maybe I'm asking the wrong question. I still don't seem to have any definitive answer. But thank you for trying!
This is a stupid but real fear I had as a child, but my dad had me watch the 1999 film 'The Mummy' which gave me nightmares of Mummies chasing me, glad I've shook the fear off but still...wasn't a pleasant part of my childhood.
The mummy has appeared in Doctor Who several times between the Original series and the updated.
The two I love the most are Tom Baker's "Pyramids of Mars" and Peter Capaldi's "Mummy on the Oriental Express"
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramids_of_Mars EXTRA: Mic Jaggers home was used as the backdrop for this episode
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_on_the_Orient_Express)
I so clearly remember the 4th doc and the mummies.
I love this show so much 🥹🥹
Great episode
I’d like to see a video the impact Tyrannosaurus Rex has had in monster movies. Considering that’ Trex is one of the ultimate monsters of our childhoods, I think it would be cool to pay some respects to the King Of The Dinosaurs.
A video on dinosaurs as monsters would actually be interesting. They already had something similar for bugs and sharks after all.
Great information
Iremember there being an irish bog mummy movie called The Eternal, with christopher walken in it
Librivox has the Jane C. Louden novel as an audiobook--thanks for the recommendation.
I did love the South Park Halloween episode the Tegridy Farms Halloween special which involved a clingy mummy following Butters everywhere.
Is there any particular reason as to why we don't get the best stories before and during Halloween season? It's like they always wait till right after Halloween to hit us with the best shows
Still i'd rather have him chasing than the wolfman
I hope to see a video sometime about mad scientists in this series. Also a Baku video
Please do some fairy tale videos the stories of little red riding hood, Goldilocks and jack and the bean stock must have a good story behind them
I support this idea, and also I'll give you a preview on what the Jack and the Beanstalk episode will be like:
You might notice that a LOT of old fairy tales from across Europe star a main character named "Jack" - that's not a coincidence! They're all meant to be the same guy! Absolutely the same character.
Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack & Jill, Jack Horner, Jack be nimble Jack be quick, Jack O'Lantern (that one started out as an Irish legend before it was a Halloween tradition) and several others. "Jack" is more or less a trickster archetype, comparable to the African folklore character "Anansi" or the character "Coyote" as is celebrated by many Native American tribes, meaning that Jack is often rewarded not for being good or kind, but by being clever and outwitting his foes.
Great video!
Imagine getting your body prepped and ready for the afterlife, only for some poncy twits to steal your body, cut it open, and even EAT it. Jeebus...
Even choosing Imhotep is a hint at the western imperialist view. Imhotep was a scribe and architect who designed the great step pyramids who was then deified. Why was he made the bad guy and not say, Amunhotep III who burned the ruling class of a cananite city alive in a pit? Or the super imperialist Ramesids?
Thumbnail Zombie just really wants to settle it with a hug! Name's Ham.
Mummies are pretty cool
Awesome video
Tanna leaves brought the mummies back to life!
Do an episode on Indrid Cold AKA The Grinning Man
Man, mummies had it rough no wonder they want us to suffer in cinema and on Halloween I mean they were turned into firewood and were left to disintegrate at parties for crying out sakes!!!
Are there any horror stories about more modern mummies, like Lenin? We seem to always focus on the Ancient Egyptian ones.
I find it interesting the Monstrum episode before this was about the Universal Monsters
I love Lot 249, it had a great adaptation in Tales from the Dark Side
I can't believe that it has been 100 years since king tut was found.
Hey Dr. Z, I don’t know if she’s still around the department but if she is Professor Dahliwal could be a treasure trove of information about Slavic folklore. Invite her to a cheeseburger at the Chuckbox, just a suggestion.
You should make a video of the necronomicon
Can you make a video about the revenants.
Been 1 of those that deeply into the occult and folklore.
One of the biggest questions in my head is why British people refer to their mothers as Egyptian zombies. I just don't see the connection.
Natural fossil Mummies > Anything humans have dreamed up.
There's one from the PERMIAN.
Shocking... lack of checking the pronounciation of Lord Carnarvon's name.
I blame the Anglicized spelling.
When I hear a mummy being brought back to life by electricity, my mind immediately sprung to Carry On Screaming's Rubbatiti
💛 all your video's mam👍
Can't say I've heard about Mummy Rx but I had heard about Mummy Brown which isn't much better
What brought Mummy back to life ? Daddy's alarm clock
Sheesh. The West really couldn't humiliate Egypt enough, could they? :-( Great video, Dr. Z!
i cant unhear "mommy" when she says mummy :D
Please make a video of The Invisible Man ,the Gillman from the creatures of black Lagoon, giant, dwarf, elf, Mokele-mbembe, the dobhar-chu and cat-sith. 🧝♂️🧝♀️🦕
Monstrum already made an episode on the Universal Studio monsters.