The mummy has carved out an interesting place in pop culture that reveals some odd quirks when you peel off the bandages. We investigate the exoticism and neo-colonialism that colours the image of the mummy in horror literature and film. How did this shambling corpse become so iconic and yet so divorced from its origins?

Includes discussions of Afraid (2024), #missingcouple (2024), The Mummy (1932), The Mummy's Hand (1940), The Aztec Mummy (1957), Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971), Timewalker (1982), The Mummy (1999) Bubba Ho-tep (2002), Frankenstein vs. the Mummy (2015) and more.

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