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Keep Your Eyes Peeled for a ‘Mummy’ 1999 Easter Egg in ‘The Mummy’!
No, Brendan Fraser doesn’t have a cameo. Sorry.
It’s hard to believe that the Brendan Fraser-starring iterations of The Mummy began just about 20 years ago, which makes both them and myself feel like ancient history. Beginning in 1999, Fraser played the heroic Rick O’Connell across three popular and successful films, and this weekend’s The Mummy looks to be drawing a whole lot more inspiration from them than Universal’s original version of The Mummy, which starred Boris Karloff as the title character.
But how are The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy (2017) connected, if at all? While they may not exist within the same Dark Universe, an Easter egg in the latter does connect the two films in a fun way!
Inverse got the scoop…
Nick Morton and Jenny Halsey visit the secret London headquarters of Prodigium. The headquarters is full of relics and monster paraphernalia, including a severed hand of a Creature from the Black Lagoon in formaldehyde and a fanged vampire skull. There, Jekyll loses control and turns into Mr. Hyde. As Hyde wails on Nick, Jenny tries to gain entrance into the room to assist him. A Prodigium employee who has seen Jekyll transform before attempts to stop her. The two scuffle, but eventually Jenny grabs a heavy book and knocks him on the head.
There’s a brief, brief shot of the book — and it’s familiar. It’s the Book of the Dead from the ‘99 Mummy, complete with a star-shaped lock.
In the 1999 version of The Mummy, the Book of the Dead was an Ancient Egyptian book made of pure obsidian. It contained ancient spells and incantations that could resurrect the dead and summon the Ghost Warriors.
Keep your eyes peeled when you see The Mummy this weekend!
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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