Are Mummies just Zombies covered in Toilet Paper?
These are the kinds of important questions we need to be discussing. World Peace hinges on it.
UPDATE: The makers of this movie seem to have also confused Mummies with Zombies:
https://moviechat.org/tt0082237/Dawn-of-the-Mummy
I would say... no. Or, not always, or not entirely.
Some movie mummies are indeed animated corpses, but they usually have an intelligence and supernatural powers that aren't seen in proper zombies. Classic zombies stagger around eating anything that isn't fast enough to walk away from them, while mummies can raise armies, incarnate as good-looking humans, and use magic to kick up sandstorms!
Great points.
However, what if we consider the classical Zombies of Haitian folklore?
I thought that the zombies of Haiti weren't just folklore, but humans who's been drugged into brain-damage and who are held as slaves?
Which is all kept very secret, but there was a best-selling book about it in the 1990s, called "The Serpent and the Rainbow". I have no idea of how much of it is factual, but according to both the folklore and the book, there's a species of fish around Haiti that is toxic enough to induce what seems to be death, and a plant called "zombie cucumber" which turns a person into a walking husk that can't think or make decisions. So people who've been chosen to be zombified are poisoned with the toxic fish, they're declared dead and buried, and then the Zombie Masters dig them up and wait for the toxin to wear off. When it does, the people are given zombie cucumber, their minds are zapped, and they're put in the fields to work as slaves. Or so the story goes.
I thought that the zombies of Haiti weren't just folklore, but humans who's been drugged into brain-damage and who are held as slaves?
When you see most mummies, the wrappings are brown.
I assumed that was from age, now you got me thinking.
Side note, see Bubba Ho-Tep if you haven't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubba_Ho-Tep
Bubba Ho-Tep is awesome.
I haven't watched it in awhile, I'm going to add it to my Halloween movie list for this year.
mummies have no organs. usually operate from curse. zombies are usually infected with something
shareMummies don't traditionally crave brains, even though by definition they're empty-headed.
shareI just discovered this while looking for more Halloween movies to watch this year.
It looks like the filmmakers behind this surely excellent US/Italian co-production actually mixed Mummies with Zombies:
Along with the mummy rising, slaves who were buried in the desert thousands of years before, also rise, with a craving for human flesh.
Thousands of years ago there was a Covid pandemic in Egypt and people hoarded TP. When the pandemic was over they had all of this TP that they didn't know what to do with and so they decided to wrap the dead in it.
shareI'd say they're animated corpses, perhaps even possessed by the ghost of itself. All their organs are in jars. You have to destroy the jars to kill the mummy. It's never come up in movies but i'm of the opinion that if you managed to obliterate a mummy's physical shell, you're just gonna have a nasty poltergeist on your hands.
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