***SPOILERS*** The usual Mummy movie with the Mummy's shroud used to activate the Mummy by reciting the ancient Egyptian writing on it. It was the fact that the Mummy's Tomb was violated by a number of British archaeologists that brought the Mummy back to life. The Mummy then went to work in punishing those who violated it with a violent and torturous death. In protecting the remains of it's master the boy Pharaoh Kah-to-Bey the Mummy being his loyal manservant Prem back in ancient Egypt must have been out to lunch when Kah-to-Bey Tomb was entered by the head man of the archeology team Sir Basil Welden. In fact Sir Basil on entering the Mummy's tomb was immediately bitten by a poisonous snake leaving him near death until help arrived. It was really Sir Basil's boss Egypt expert Stanley Preston, John Phillips, who started things going on the wrong foot by having Sir Basil committed to a lunatic asylum, not a hospital,in order to take all the fame and glory away from him! That's in Stanley not Sir Basil being the one getting all the credit of finding the Mummy.
This didn't go too well with Stanley's son Paul who together with his girlfriend Chair De Sangre, an interpretor of ancient Egyptian writings, who both decided to stay in Cairo and get to the bottom of all this Mummy business and be even willing to face the music when the Mummy comes looking for them! As for Stanley he together with two of the members of the Mummy expedition team end up getting whacked by the Mummy who was guided to do his dirty work by his and Kah-to Bey's guardian of he Mummy's Tomb the crazed Bedouin tribesman wild eyed and spaced out looking Hasmid Ali. It was Hasmid who recited the curse, written in ancient Egyptian, on the Mummy's shroud that got him into kill mode.
****SPOILERS*** In the end it was Chair who finally stopped the Mummy by finding out the words, on the shroud, to put a stop to its carnage and murder by having it disintegrate into a pile of dust and bones when the movie finally ended. The Mummy in the movie was a lot more agile, like a gymnast or professional wrestler, that what your were used to seeing Mummy's depicted on the screen as well as far more well dressed! In fact the Mummy's clothes or bandages were so neat and tapered that you would think that he just got them laundered and dry-cleaned at the nearest Chinese laundry.
This didn't go too well with Stanley's son Paul who together with his girlfriend Chair De Sangre, an interpretor of ancient Egyptian writings, who both decided to stay in Cairo and get to the bottom of all this Mummy business and be even willing to face the music when the Mummy comes looking for them! As for Stanley he together with two of the members of the Mummy expedition team end up getting whacked by the Mummy who was guided to do his dirty work by his and Kah-to Bey's guardian of he Mummy's Tomb the crazed Bedouin tribesman wild eyed and spaced out looking Hasmid Ali. It was Hasmid who recited the curse, written in ancient Egyptian, on the Mummy's shroud that got him into kill mode.
****SPOILERS*** In the end it was Chair who finally stopped the Mummy by finding out the words, on the shroud, to put a stop to its carnage and murder by having it disintegrate into a pile of dust and bones when the movie finally ended. The Mummy in the movie was a lot more agile, like a gymnast or professional wrestler, that what your were used to seeing Mummy's depicted on the screen as well as far more well dressed! In fact the Mummy's clothes or bandages were so neat and tapered that you would think that he just got them laundered and dry-cleaned at the nearest Chinese laundry.