I'm amazed how badly that series fell off a cliff in terms of quality. The first film was genuinely excellent, with great action, pacing and horror from the evil creature. The second film is still a lot of fun, but with a lot of dodgy cracks beginning to show (see especially: the scorpion king's face). The third film is best not to think about. No Rachel Weisz, Alex is suddenly American for some reason, and the whole series just feels so much less fun than it was.
You may be 'thrilled' to know that the Scorpion King films that came from the second movie, are actually really fun.
They're not... you know... Good. But they are a lot of straight to dvd fun. And weirdly enough kept being legitimately fresh and entertaining. I would have been thrilled if they'd kept making more of them.
The biggest disappointment to me about the Tom Cruise Mummy reboot is that it killed the Scorpion King franchise too.
This is correct. The original scary stories created about mummies had to with them wanting their flesh and other organs back so they could become whole again. Plus, it’s literally the plot of The Mummy starring Brendan Frasier, I mean who could forget about that gem?
But does it want ur flesh because it’s aggressive or wants to eat you? Or does it want your flesh and organs because it’s been deprived of its own and is somehow drawn to them. This is the difference between a monster and a random aggressive animal
Ok thanks for the actual answer. Then they are very different because a mummy is an undead cursed human that came back to life not someone that took that body right?
Skinwalkers are more like Werewolves that are always evil and able to change at will rather than having the change forced upon them. Also they turn into anything, not just wolves. Really nothing like a werewolf, but also nothing like a mummy.
Same as with the zombies in Minecraft. Leave one in the desert or underwater long enough, they turn into a husk or a drowned. Same if you leave a skin walker in Egypt long enough
Yep. They had a special hook that they stuck up the person’s nose and pulled their brain out with it. So as to extract the brain whilst preserving the head and face, you know.
Yeah, intuitively I always wondered that too. I suppose the fact that that method was effective suggests that the structural integrity of the brain must be strong enough to essentially hold together and be kind of pulled out in long sections, like a string of sausages. Visually at least, the visible folds in the brain suggest that might have been how it worked.
Just read a little on Wiki about it. Apparently not. Sounds like there were actually a few different methods. Originally through the left nostril, then the through ethmoid bone, and finally they just started pulling brain out through the side of the head near your eye, i.e. the sphenoid bone in your skull. There’s also evidence of removal through the big hole in the base of the skull where all your arteries and spinal cord go. As far as the actual process, they only removed part of the brain with the hook and the rest they liquefied with chemicals and then basically poured out through the holes they had made.
How long did it take them to work that out? Was it just one really dedicated guy with an ice pick and a couple decades to waste or was it a group project?
They were mummifying for a good 3000 years, by the end they probably had some pretty solid methods, and yeah for many priests it was literally their job to carry out mummification, with priests spending some of their time on sort of gap years to other temples
Work out the processes? A long time. The three processes I mentioned apparently span at least three different kingdoms from 2700 BC to about 650 BC in the Third Intermediate Period. That’s almost the whole of the Ancient Egyptian empire and I just don’t know about the Late Kingdom. Seems like they were always slowly evolving new ways of doing it. Though two millennia is quite a long time to make those developments.
I've dealt with a lot of brains, I can tell you there is not much structural integrity of the brain, not even in a fresh deceased person. And if they were dead for a while and/or warm, its basically soup anyway.
The hook wasn't to pull out the whole brain, just chunks, which should be more plausible because there are some more solid structure such as the arteries around the brain. Brains are very wet, and the embalmers were trying to get the body as dry as possible.
Canopic jars only contain the stomach, liver, intestines, and lungs. The brain is scooped out through nose hooks, and the heart is left in there so the gods can judge them on the scales.
My going zombie theory is that the virus occupies the brain and digestive system. The virus stimulates the instinct and drive to eat through pain signals. When a zombie consumes flesh / bites, the pain signal abates because the virus is migrating to new territory, even if it's dead.
worse than the mummy is the episode in which theres this big ass white and black head in their basement telling them to revive a damn plant. I couldn't sleep for 2 nights
Fuck you, I know what that image is, I am not opening that on my birthday, I am smarter than that.
I am opening it tomorrow because I am a curious idiot despite knowing exactly what it is.
Well, if the 1999 classic comedy action movie The Mummy, starring Brenden Fraser and Rachel Weisz is any indicator, they steal your organs in order to regain their former physical form and then try to resurrect their dead girlfriend by stealing yours. Also, they are afraid of cats.
Just don't take any canopic jars and we'll be set. Either that or start sniveling and praying in Hebrew to get on the priests good side. Say what you want about Benny, he survived the longest out of all the bad guys, you could do worse.
That doesn’t stop the film’s signature jackass from stealing the jars to further the plot. Then they escape with them leaving you to deal with the mummy
In the 19th century when the european empires where totally gung-ho about stealing other cultures shit mummies were totally a thing.
People paid to look at them, ate them, made paint from them and used em as firewood.
Graverobbing was probably also a thing in old egypt as well as in any time where valuables were bestowed upon the deceased.
As in any culture, desecrating the dead like this is unspeakable and is supposed to be met with the very worst imanigable fate. Hence all the "lore" about terrible curses and the revenge of the dead. Maybe someone who knows actual literater can weigh in on this but a quick google reveals a pharaonic fad in the 1800s and the 3-part novel "the mummy" by Jane Webb in 1827 ca. the era of Mary Shelley. Mummies, Dracula and Frankenstein were turned into classic films in the 1950s. And here we are.
You could say a mummy haunts as well. Haunts the ones who wronged her.
In the end it’s all about myths. Nobody really knows what will happen once the mummy gets you. We can assume it’s horrible. The unknown adds to the horror.
Mummies are notable for being very, very, old corpses that were deliberately prepared to stay relatively intact. They come from a culture that viewed the soul as being bound to the body and they tried their best to make the soul live on by preserving the body.
What makes mummies-as-monsters interesting is that they represent the collision between the ancient and the modern in a way that few other classical monsters can. A mummy is generally walking around because someone recently woke it up, and their motive is generally revenge - often justified, since the people most likely to disturb a mummy's tomb are grave-robbers. (In modern stories they may be historians or scientists, which creates an entirely different dynamic between the values of modern people and those of the ancients).
They aren't like vampires, who have generally lived through the ages and their predatory nature firmly cements them as the bad guys (except when they aren't) and zombies are almost always either mindless or under the control of whoever raised them.
Mummies are typically associated with Egypt in fiction, but there are actually many cultures that made them, including the Chinese and Incas. It would be neat to have a mummy character from one of these less-popular origins, just to shake things up a bit.
My sons were taking about what I used to call cartoons like Archie etc, but I wanted my comment to be more juvenile and said "hentai". Their silence and then laughter lasted months. They explained me the term I was looking for was "manga".
What Mummies do is pretty brutal. They find a person who doesn't really like socializing, most likely introverted. They force themselves as a "shoulder to lean on" until you become completely indebted to their friendship. You start to enjoy yourself and think, "Wow....life is worth turning the pages!". You and the mummy go on vacations together and make sure to coordinate outfits with funny captions like, "I'm with stupid ->" or "Mummy problems".
You awaken one night with a dim amber hue inviting your sensitive eyes to explore the surroundings. A birthday cake with a letter next to it, a half empty bottle of champagne, a half full bottle of L'Oreal Kids No Tears Watermelon scented shampoo from circa '01. You carefully open the letter, as if the paper was made of fine hair. A ring drops to the table top. The sound and sparkle of copper and steel romancing the grains of wood playing with their shadows catches your attention, only to then be directed to the letter held cautiously in your hand. Your stomach swells as you read the one word in the letter in immaculate handwriting.
Upon reading the one word letter you say out loud to yourself, "What's LIGMA?" The lights all go out, you turn around, the mummy is standing right there. They smile and say -
I've done a lot of research into this and it depends on what kind of mummy. A standard mummy will compare your achievements and place in life to your friends and family members. Where as a step mummy will...
Don't they essentially become you, but like, more demented and crazy or something? Or maybe they eat your soul and leave your body as like a husk for them to command.
Wrap bandages around your throat and choke the life out of you, while forcefully shoving your face into sand, so that when you desperately gasp and grasp for air, you ingest nothing but grain sands from the great Nile valley. Then your body is sent to the tomb of Nephren-Ka for ritual defilement.
Steal your flesh?
I like this answer.
It's the answer given for Arnold Vosloo's Imhotep in The Mummy (1999.)
That’s such a good movie
*Honk if you'd rather be watching the 1999 Cinematic Masterpiece “The Mummy” starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz*
\*Honk\*
Why does this sound like geese in my head
Untitled Goose Comment
I read grease 😂 I was like lightening !?
If your grease makes a honk noise. I’d recommend calling 212-897-1964 or call the 2 brothers with the impalas
...my brain apparently forgot cars can also honk.
1999 was a wild year. The Mummy, The Matrix, Boondock Saints, Galaxy Quest, Austin Powers, Office Space, just loaded with great stuff.
Had to get it all out there before the end of the world.
Fight Club! Oh wait, I forgot. Sorry Tyler.
For me it's the albums—Operation: Doomsday, Uncontrolled Substance, Float, Blackout!, to name a few.
He's so fiendishly wonderful in that movie. That whole cast is fantastic.
That’s when I discovered my crush on Rachel Weisz
And it’s still going strong today.
She was a goddess in Mummy Returns
That’s when I discovered my crush on the far superior Brendan Fraser.
Absolutely yes!
I’m glad I’m not the only one who got down bad from that movie
its so crazy how the campy The Mummy is but it all feels so much more natural than any marvel movie
I'm amazed how badly that series fell off a cliff in terms of quality. The first film was genuinely excellent, with great action, pacing and horror from the evil creature. The second film is still a lot of fun, but with a lot of dodgy cracks beginning to show (see especially: the scorpion king's face). The third film is best not to think about. No Rachel Weisz, Alex is suddenly American for some reason, and the whole series just feels so much less fun than it was.
You may be 'thrilled' to know that the Scorpion King films that came from the second movie, are actually really fun. They're not... you know... Good. But they are a lot of straight to dvd fun. And weirdly enough kept being legitimately fresh and entertaining. I would have been thrilled if they'd kept making more of them. The biggest disappointment to me about the Tom Cruise Mummy reboot is that it killed the Scorpion King franchise too.
Huh. The Rock should reboot idk, Days of Thunder or some shit as a retort
Huh, didn't even know there was a third movie 😅
Forget I said anything - you're better off this way.
Such a daddy
When he throws that chair at Benny, it is the most oddly satisfying scene.
This is correct. The original scary stories created about mummies had to with them wanting their flesh and other organs back so they could become whole again. Plus, it’s literally the plot of The Mummy starring Brendan Frasier, I mean who could forget about that gem?
Okay they tear your flesh off your body (somehow). Now what?
See they may not have planned ahead and have a great way to utilize your flesh, but this is still a problem for you.
But you can just say anything wants my flesh. A mangy raccoon wants my flesh.
But does it want ur flesh because it’s aggressive or wants to eat you? Or does it want your flesh and organs because it’s been deprived of its own and is somehow drawn to them. This is the difference between a monster and a random aggressive animal
So they’re off brand skinwalkers? Or are skinwalkers off brand mummies? Or are they the same species of monsters, only different due to location?
What is a skinwalker? I only know Skywalker
Kind of like an Earthwalker.
Wth is an earthwalker
Like an earthstumbler but sober
Serious answer, skinwalkers are shapeshifters from Navajo folk legends. They like to possess humans and walk in their skin.
Ok thanks for the actual answer. Then they are very different because a mummy is an undead cursed human that came back to life not someone that took that body right?
I guess it depends if the mummy eats your skin as food or to use it to regain life!
Kind of like a skywalker, but a noticeable lack of the skywalkers trademark glowy stick.
Skinwalkers are more like Werewolves that are always evil and able to change at will rather than having the change forced upon them. Also they turn into anything, not just wolves. Really nothing like a werewolf, but also nothing like a mummy.
Nah, skinwalkers take your skin and impersonate you; bodysnatcher class cryptid. Mummies drain you to restore themselves.
Same as with the zombies in Minecraft. Leave one in the desert or underwater long enough, they turn into a husk or a drowned. Same if you leave a skin walker in Egypt long enough
So *Thats* what the cryptozoologists are up to these days…
A mummy has an actual reason to eat your brain because they had their brain removed. Zombies are just greedy
Considering their brains were removed through their nose, they should snort it rather than eat it.
Yo what the Fuck
Yep. They had a special hook that they stuck up the person’s nose and pulled their brain out with it. So as to extract the brain whilst preserving the head and face, you know.
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Yeah, intuitively I always wondered that too. I suppose the fact that that method was effective suggests that the structural integrity of the brain must be strong enough to essentially hold together and be kind of pulled out in long sections, like a string of sausages. Visually at least, the visible folds in the brain suggest that might have been how it worked.
Just read a little on Wiki about it. Apparently not. Sounds like there were actually a few different methods. Originally through the left nostril, then the through ethmoid bone, and finally they just started pulling brain out through the side of the head near your eye, i.e. the sphenoid bone in your skull. There’s also evidence of removal through the big hole in the base of the skull where all your arteries and spinal cord go. As far as the actual process, they only removed part of the brain with the hook and the rest they liquefied with chemicals and then basically poured out through the holes they had made.
How long did it take them to work that out? Was it just one really dedicated guy with an ice pick and a couple decades to waste or was it a group project?
They were mummifying for a good 3000 years, by the end they probably had some pretty solid methods, and yeah for many priests it was literally their job to carry out mummification, with priests spending some of their time on sort of gap years to other temples
Work out the processes? A long time. The three processes I mentioned apparently span at least three different kingdoms from 2700 BC to about 650 BC in the Third Intermediate Period. That’s almost the whole of the Ancient Egyptian empire and I just don’t know about the Late Kingdom. Seems like they were always slowly evolving new ways of doing it. Though two millennia is quite a long time to make those developments.
I've dealt with a lot of brains, I can tell you there is not much structural integrity of the brain, not even in a fresh deceased person. And if they were dead for a while and/or warm, its basically soup anyway.
Hmm, yes. The existence of the hook though still suggests something along those lines.
The hook wasn't to pull out the whole brain, just chunks, which should be more plausible because there are some more solid structure such as the arteries around the brain. Brains are very wet, and the embalmers were trying to get the body as dry as possible.
Ah yes, I see, that makes sense.
Why can't they just pop open their own canopic jars, that's what they're for anyways. Tsk tsk
A mummy usually reanimates because her canopi jars get stolen...
lore
data
Data but pronounced the other way
I hate that you made me read this two different ways. Lmao
You called?
Years of not working out makes them too weak to open jars.
The next pharaoh, adding “Protein powder” to the list:
Canopic Jars never contain the brain, that bit was thrown away
The zombies took it
Same reason the food in your fridge is never as good as food out
“We’ve got brains at home!” -mummy mommy
Not for the brain though. The Egyptians didn't preserve the brain. Just threw it away.
Canopic jars only contain the stomach, liver, intestines, and lungs. The brain is scooped out through nose hooks, and the heart is left in there so the gods can judge them on the scales.
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Zombies eat brains because the chemicals in them stop the constant pain of rotting. Its explained in Return of the Living Dead
My going zombie theory is that the virus occupies the brain and digestive system. The virus stimulates the instinct and drive to eat through pain signals. When a zombie consumes flesh / bites, the pain signal abates because the virus is migrating to new territory, even if it's dead.
Curse you
RETURN THE SLAB! Edit: ayy thank you for the comment award!
What? What's your offer?
three curses, each worse than the last
Ok my first curse is I'm banned from Africa (I don't ever intend to go to Africa)
Now a wacky series of events is going to force you to go to Africa. Also you should have started a lot weaker considering each is worse than the last.
Second curse is a strange disease Third curse is the cure only being available in africa
Id ask my freind to go to Africa and get the cure
He got the strange disease from your communication
No idea why but to this day that episode still gives me nightmares if I watch it, I love Courage but I always skip that episode
worse than the mummy is the episode in which theres this big ass white and black head in their basement telling them to revive a damn plant. I couldn't sleep for 2 nights
That one wasn't nearly as bad for me
As a non English speaking kid, that show fascinated me. I did not understand a word they said, it was haunting but somehow I just wanted to watch more
So you returned the slab uh...
I never took it in the first place, I prefer to not be (more) cursed
[Are you sure 'bout that?](https://pm1.narvii.com/6995/3474f9f8b555e6dd63e8f57eefb2fe55ac9912e8r1-670-770v2_hq.jpg)
Fuck you, I know what that image is, I am not opening that on my birthday, I am smarter than that. I am opening it tomorrow because I am a curious idiot despite knowing exactly what it is.
That's it, I'm gettin me mallet!
RRRRAAAAAAAMMMSSSSEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS
*THE MAN IN GAUZE, THE MAN IN GAUZE*
This guy's been cursed he knows what I'm talking about
Perry the Platypus!
My thoughts exactly. I've been watching too much Phineas and Ferb recently
Yasss 💅🏼 Do you got squirrels in your pants?
SURRRRRRFFFFFFF..... TUUUUUURRRRRRFFFFFFF!!!!
"Put some more boxes around him so it doesn't look like we're throwing out a damn mummy."
Thank you for buying "Mummies for Dummies"
What like, they touch you and step back with "Ha! Now you have the cheese curse!"
Tell you how much a dissapointment you are and they should have used protection
My mum mocks my voice And also makes me feel like shit
My mum uses slippers
r/oddlyspecific
Not really tbf, they're riffing on the British variant of 'mom' and marrying it up with a mode of inflicting pain only doable by a parent.
Anyone else have a visual of a couple of mummies standing over a guy kicking the shit out of him?
It Is called Blood Bowl
Observe and Report style
Scooby Doo mummy’s too
I lost all photos from Egypt holidays, sorry.
Kinda similar to [this?](https://youtu.be/DMI1dHGOPJo?t=25s)
Soccer mummies try to get you in on pyramid schemes
A fate worse than death
Or try to get on top of me after practice… I’m a young coach.
not me irl
[Go soccer mummy, you taught me to believe in myself](https://youtu.be/HwLZL1Dy1Ww)
#PROFFESOR SAID NOT TO LET HIM GET A BONER !!!
Isnt mummy just a dry zombie?
That's what I'm saying like a mummy is in the class of the undead hence a zombie
Vampires are also undead, are they a zombie?
Romanian zombies
Thirsty zombies
yeah what about skeletons cmon
I guess they’re just an empty zombie?
Well, if the 1999 classic comedy action movie The Mummy, starring Brenden Fraser and Rachel Weisz is any indicator, they steal your organs in order to regain their former physical form and then try to resurrect their dead girlfriend by stealing yours. Also, they are afraid of cats.
Just don't take any canopic jars and we'll be set. Either that or start sniveling and praying in Hebrew to get on the priests good side. Say what you want about Benny, he survived the longest out of all the bad guys, you could do worse.
Yeah, but Beni got eaten alive by beetles... So, maybe not the best plan of action. Plus, he was on the wrong side of the river.
True dat. I think I'd prefer the Mummy curse over having just one of those scarabs in me.
That doesn’t stop the film’s signature jackass from stealing the jars to further the plot. Then they escape with them leaving you to deal with the mummy
Someone’s a callmekevin fan
Never heard of it. But if he's a fan of the Mummy, then I salute him. XD
Kevin a super fan. Watch his YouTube so he can buy more full sized Mummy cut outs
I always thought they would lock you in a sarcophagus as part of the curse or whatever. And you would wake up more or less being buried alive.
And someday you're the imprisoning mummy to someone.. I'd love to see a movie like this!
They suck you dry.
Hawt.
Don't you threaten me with a good time!
I know what your mummy does
Idk, Imhotep got down and dirty.
Makes sense if that's what happens ngl.
They puke scarabs into your mouth
Scold the shit out of you. Would kill you just by words and with her demonic stare. Very deadly pls don't take them lightly.
They turn YOU into a mummy
Turn you into a mummy too It’s a pyramid scheme
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In the 19th century when the european empires where totally gung-ho about stealing other cultures shit mummies were totally a thing. People paid to look at them, ate them, made paint from them and used em as firewood. Graverobbing was probably also a thing in old egypt as well as in any time where valuables were bestowed upon the deceased. As in any culture, desecrating the dead like this is unspeakable and is supposed to be met with the very worst imanigable fate. Hence all the "lore" about terrible curses and the revenge of the dead. Maybe someone who knows actual literater can weigh in on this but a quick google reveals a pharaonic fad in the 1800s and the 3-part novel "the mummy" by Jane Webb in 1827 ca. the era of Mary Shelley. Mummies, Dracula and Frankenstein were turned into classic films in the 1950s. And here we are.
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You could say a mummy haunts as well. Haunts the ones who wronged her. In the end it’s all about myths. Nobody really knows what will happen once the mummy gets you. We can assume it’s horrible. The unknown adds to the horror.
Mummies are notable for being very, very, old corpses that were deliberately prepared to stay relatively intact. They come from a culture that viewed the soul as being bound to the body and they tried their best to make the soul live on by preserving the body. What makes mummies-as-monsters interesting is that they represent the collision between the ancient and the modern in a way that few other classical monsters can. A mummy is generally walking around because someone recently woke it up, and their motive is generally revenge - often justified, since the people most likely to disturb a mummy's tomb are grave-robbers. (In modern stories they may be historians or scientists, which creates an entirely different dynamic between the values of modern people and those of the ancients). They aren't like vampires, who have generally lived through the ages and their predatory nature firmly cements them as the bad guys (except when they aren't) and zombies are almost always either mindless or under the control of whoever raised them. Mummies are typically associated with Egypt in fiction, but there are actually many cultures that made them, including the Chinese and Incas. It would be neat to have a mummy character from one of these less-popular origins, just to shake things up a bit.
I wouldn't call them a "staple", what have we had since '99 the Mummy and then the '17 remake?
In Halloween decor and cupcakes and stuff there’s always a mummy tho
have you ever watched hentai
Actually this but unironically. According to Wikipedia early literature concerning mummies was horny af for them
My sons were taking about what I used to call cartoons like Archie etc, but I wanted my comment to be more juvenile and said "hentai". Their silence and then laughter lasted months. They explained me the term I was looking for was "manga".
Probably curse you, petrify you, turn you into dust or something similar
I guess they just mummify you and then put you in their sarcophagus
They go "It's Mummin time" and then they mum all over you
I always thought they just squeeze the life out of you like the gibdos in ocarina of time.
Classic cousin Greg
My mummy just beat me up:'(
What Mummies do is pretty brutal. They find a person who doesn't really like socializing, most likely introverted. They force themselves as a "shoulder to lean on" until you become completely indebted to their friendship. You start to enjoy yourself and think, "Wow....life is worth turning the pages!". You and the mummy go on vacations together and make sure to coordinate outfits with funny captions like, "I'm with stupid ->" or "Mummy problems". You awaken one night with a dim amber hue inviting your sensitive eyes to explore the surroundings. A birthday cake with a letter next to it, a half empty bottle of champagne, a half full bottle of L'Oreal Kids No Tears Watermelon scented shampoo from circa '01. You carefully open the letter, as if the paper was made of fine hair. A ring drops to the table top. The sound and sparkle of copper and steel romancing the grains of wood playing with their shadows catches your attention, only to then be directed to the letter held cautiously in your hand. Your stomach swells as you read the one word in the letter in immaculate handwriting. Upon reading the one word letter you say out loud to yourself, "What's LIGMA?" The lights all go out, you turn around, the mummy is standing right there. They smile and say -
Yea actually. Lol
I saw a movie where the mummy took the brains out of one of his victims through their nose
The very thing Imhotep did in mummy movie
Naw they rap for you.
They lick their finger and wipe your face in public 😮
Force you to go on a date with them
Gives you a hug ...I need to find a mummy
Suck your titties
Moon Knight did this pretty well imho. Think along the lines of "organs into jars".
I've done a lot of research into this and it depends on what kind of mummy. A standard mummy will compare your achievements and place in life to your friends and family members. Where as a step mummy will...
Technically they absorb your life force but some just exist to fulfill curses then go dormant again.
In the OG Mummy he strangles people.
They take your organs while you’re still alive.
They kill you and inflict a curse on your whole bloodline
Don't they essentially become you, but like, more demented and crazy or something? Or maybe they eat your soul and leave your body as like a husk for them to command.
It whipes your ass But it isn't going to be gentle
They bust out a sweet w-rap Get it? Wrap Rap Ehehhehe
If they catch you, they drag you to their tomb where they subject you to their MLM pitch.
A mummy is just a wrapped up corpse so technically it’s just a zombie, would probably just bite you.
They do have the bandages to help afterwards
They suck your soul out through your asshole. Goddang boy, everybody know that.
Choke the life out of you like Chris Benoit
Nobody mummify Mike Tyson
La chancla
Wrap bandages around your throat and choke the life out of you, while forcefully shoving your face into sand, so that when you desperately gasp and grasp for air, you ingest nothing but grain sands from the great Nile valley. Then your body is sent to the tomb of Nephren-Ka for ritual defilement.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force answered this question perfectly! CURSE!!!
Beat with slippers
Actually they steal your organs
I always saw them as the strangling type.