Have you read the original novel by F. Paul Wilson? Much better than the movie, or so I recall.
Universal Studios Classic Monsters Extended Universe - wuh?
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Have you read the original novel by F. Paul Wilson? Much better than the movie, or so I recall.
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"What are...evening clothes?"
The first we see of him in the movie-- Radu Molasar (Rasalom) looked like a plasma torpedo
I could tell it was a Mann film just by the look and the soundtrack.
Still, the scene where the camera pulls back and reveals this vast complex--like something from HPL's Rats In The Walls--good model work.
"What are...evening clothes?"
The first we see of him in the movie-- Radu Molasar (Rasalom) looked like a plasma torpedo
I could tell it was a Mann film just by the look and the soundtrack.
Still, the scene where the camera pulls back and reveals this vast complex--like something from HPL's Rats In The Walls--good model work.
So, with the amount of apocalyptic damage in that trailer - is this cinematic universe going to have all these creatures publicly known? Like a reverse MCU, where everyone is terrified all the time because of the unstoppable monsters loose in the world?
I wonder if they mean that literally, I would think they'd know that there were some old mummy movies around. If nothing else, this definitely looks like the spiritual successor to the Fraser movies than it does the mummy movies of old.
On the one hand, it's true that this does seem to owe more to the action-packed Fraser movies than the more low-key Universal and Hammer mummy films. On the other hand, yes, sadly, there are tons of people who assume that no pop culture ever existed before the earliest works they're personally familiar with. In my experience, for example, a lot of people seem to think Flash Gordon originated with the 1980 movie. And then there were all those people who ragged on Jerry Goldsmith for "stealing the TNG theme" for Star Trek V.
Anyway, I noticed that the Mummy's character name is Ahmanet, which is a variant spelling of the name Amonet, an Egyptian goddess who was the consort of Amon. In Stargate SG-1, Amaunet was the name of the Goa'uld who possessed Daniel Jackson's wife and was married to the archvillain Apophis.
Meanwhile, am I the only one who's totally creeped out by that shot of her irises splitting in two? Seriously, I can barely stand to look at that.
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Nope, not just you. Totally creepy. I can barely stand to look at a goat's eyes, which are somewhat similar.
There's a strong Uncharted 3 feel to the trailer.
I liked the Egyptian-y Paint It Black cover
Me too, anything to do with eyes freaks me out. I still have trouble with the needle going into Picard's eye every time I watch First Contact.
I was looking at the Creature from the Black Lagoon on Wikipedia the other day, and I was shocked to see it only had two sequels and no remakes. I would have expected a monster that iconic to have gotten more movies, although he did make some smaller appearances in other movies and on TV.
Speaking of Gill Man, his new movie has netted the writer of Aquaman for it's script.
I actually had to live through that when I was in high school and developed a retinal melanoma. I had needles stuck behind my eye a lot, and it wasn't fun, but I kinda got used to it. But my father was totally squicked out by it and couldn't stand to watch. In a weird way, it's a bit easier when it's being done to your own eye, because then you don't have to see it. Still hurts, though.
But the trilogy they did make is surprisingly cohesive, despite changing the main characters each time. Here's my blog review from 2013:
https://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/gills-and-the-man-universals-creature-trilogy/
The Gill-Man was the last of the Universal Monsters, originating in the '50s, and maybe that's why he had so few movies compared to the others. Although with so many monster movies in the '50s and '60s, that's a bit counterintuitive.
That passage freaked me out more than all the Universal Monster and Hammer Horror films combined.
People are already ragging on the upcoming remake of THE FLY for trampling over the sacred memory of the 1980 movie with Jeff Goldblum. "Hollywood has run of out of ideas! Why can't they do something original?"
Never mind that the 1980 movie was a remake of the classic 1954 movie with Vincent Price . . ...
Which was based in turn on a short story published in Playboy. (The movie was from 1958, though, and the story from '57.)