K.D. Redding-Gonzalez continues to offer insightful posts on horror.
It’s not just about grave-robbing anymore…
Somehow, that is the potential problem that plagues the modern Mummy, still interpreted by Hollywood primarily…Instead we are obsessed with special effects, popular movie stars, and ancient curses we manage to make up ourselves. Always we decorate our interpretations of Mummy stories with elaborate bigotries and racist caricature.
Nowhere in the past have we treated the culture we are robbing to tell the Mummy’s tale with the respect it is due, nor in a way that enhances the story.
What a shame…For with the Mummy we stand among the most powerful subgenres in Horror – in the fertile ground of the Gothic Romance and the Ghost Story, amidst a magnificent example of marginalization of the Other: the grave-robbing of an antiquated culture for fun and profit, and the exotic dead laced with the desperation of revenge.
Somehow, with visions of pulp and action adventure…
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Thank you for putting the Mummy out there… the more we rethink him, the more likely we are to do better by him!
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You are very welcome.
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Excellent points!
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Yes, they are.
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K C has written a well-thought out explanation about the ignorant, uncaring, defying of a culture. I hope in this new movie that those aspects are revealed. A movie can be a great horror creation and literary too as well as being honest about the indignities and inhumane treatment of mummies committed for fun and profit. K. D.
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Thank you for an excellent analysis of K.D.’s post.
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Thank you so much, Prof. French, I am always humbled by your praise and made better because of them. K D 🙂
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