HORROR BUSINESS Episode 164: BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY’S TOMB & DAWN OF THE MUMMY

Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We’ve got one heck of an episode in store for you guys, as we’re talking about 1971’s Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb and 1981’s Dawn Of The Mummy.

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We briefly talk what we’ve doing involving horror recently. Liam talks about watching the film The Last Sacrifice on Shudder, and Liam and Justin talk about Night Patrol. Liam talks about starting the series of books The Locked Tomb, and Justin talks about seeing the films We Bury The Dead and Primate.

Up first is Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb. We talk about how it has a disappointingly low number of mummies, how it’s a woefully forgettable film and how it’s very boring for a film of that era.

Justin talks about how the film seems to drop several hints at things to come later but never gives any payoff.

We discuss the phenomenon of fetishization of the Middle East and the othering of Egyptian culture, and how for a period Egypt was, to Britain, the ultimate “other.”

Up next is Dawn Of The Mummy. We open by talking about how the movie feels very Italian despite being an American production, and how the movie feels like a zombie movie with mummies instead of zombies.

We discuss how the film is a perfect encapsulation of how imperialism and colonialism desecrate and trivialize ancient Egyptian culture. Liam talks about how despite the film starting out slow, it becomes a full-blown massacre involving dozens of mummies.

We make it a point to describe the film as “fun” instead of “actually good” and talk about how the film has lots of “requisite ’80s checked boxes.”

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