03/11/2014
I’m sure there’s plenty of differences between mummies and zombies, but in the movies the only thing separating them is a roll of bandages.
I’m sure there’s plenty of differences between mummies and zombies, but in the movies the only thing separating them is a roll of bandages.
A museum job? Now that’s either absolutely silly, or just an ego stroke. You can only pawn museum pieces in very limited venues and they tend to get tracked backwards very easily if you’re not very careful and absolutely well connected. From a purely logical standpoint you’re much better off taking various things and rendering them down into their components…… much easier to sell. However, doing that loses the huge value of the item being a relic in the first place, and seriously torques off cultural groups. Don’t get caught melting down egyptian gold, kids…… there’s a lot of very angry people out there that will shoot you for ruining unique treasures.
Of course if he’s just redecorating the house, I approve of this effort. Who doesn’t want a 3000 year old pharaoh’s burial mask mounted on their wall? Needs a heck of a nail though.
Also, wouldn’t mummies just be zombies with their organs scooped out and lots of salt and stuff shoved inside? Kinda religion powered?
I like the notion of ‘religion-powered zombies’; hell, if there are any Photoshop wunderkinds in the audience today feel free to whip up something along the lines of a pamphlet you get from those door-to-door folks!
Fencing ancient artifacts has to be extremely difficult, but it looks like Scap has been doing more business lately. Who knows who might want to commission a supervillain to swipe a sarcophagus for his rumpus room?
Would that include golems?
Hmmmm…depends on your definition. A golem can serve as a zombie, in the traditional sense (a servant to a guiding force like a priest or sorcerer), but a golem is made of clay, mud, or rock, and a zombie is flesh and bone.
If that sounds incorrect…uh, blame Hollywood. Just don’t send any dead bodies, whether they be mud or blood, after me.
A golem is more like a religion powered automaton, though I think you could make them out of a corpse. Been a while since I watched ‘The Golem’….
I’ve never heard of golems being made out of corpses, but I’m not going to deny that until I read more about it (which I may or may not do, depending on how distracted I am).
Anyone out there wish to fill us in on the legend of Der Golem?
Then there’s also the D&D ones…
http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Golem#Types_of_Golems
Hmmm. More Halloween Gang hijinks, or is someone trying to be William Castle to Scap’s Roger Corman?
The Scapula/Roger Corman analogy might need rethinking; after all, it looks like Scap spends a lot more money on his monster effects than that penny-pinching ‘shoot it over the weekend’ miser ever did!
Maybe George Pal? Ishiro Honda? Georges Méliès? Sam Raimi?…oh, who are we kidding? Scap is the equivalent of Edward D. Wood Jr. and we all know it (and he gets his angora from Hypnausea)!
I’d say mummies are a subtype of zombies, the ones that, well, underwent mummification.
The cure to the next Romero outbreak is…pull out the zombies’ brains with nose fish-hooks and fill them with sawdust and onions (and if I got any part of that wrong…so did Hollywood, so nyeah nyeah nyeah!).
That’s a good disguise because I am not gonna stand in a Mummy Zombie’s way for any reason. Brrrr……
They probably stink like hell!
Mummies also tend to be smarter, fantastically sturdier and have magical powers of some sort. Praise Ra!
I mean, if Mummy was just a zombie with a bandaid, who would ever give a rats ass about its curse? Nobody is afraid of a solo zombie. Not even a bullshit cheater fastzombie.
Ohhh, I forgot about the “curse” aspect! The ‘Mummy’s Curse’ is something of legend (both ancient and pop culture), while the zombies don’t have curses…unless if you include the whole “get bitten by one and become one”, but that’s being a bit poetic.
You could call it a curse, really. Considering how a lot of people refer to Lycanthropy as a curse and it’s the same Bite=Infection thing. But most people just go with calling it a disease/virus/infection. Zombies fit in with aliens as a more “scientific” threat, as opposed to a magical threat like vampires or werewolves.
Helps keep the “magic is dumb and not real” crowd entertained. Suspension of Disbelief requires imagination.
Now if scapula was really smart, he would have turned this job into a false flag operation. Have some goons dress up as, say, Gemini’s goons, and cart off a sarcophagus, while leaving a massive amount of fake evidence at the scene. he’d get the loot, and someone else would get the blame.
As for a mummy zombie smelling extremely bad, they wouldn’t. extreme decomposition and a lack of biological chemicals to break down. possible some petrification too.
I meant to say “extreme decomposition and a lack of biological chemicals to break down. possible some petrification too, would make that extremely unlikely”.
Not a bad plan at all! Heck, he could have had them dress as the Jemini duplicates (which, I have to admit, would be a very difficult costume to create).
As for the smell of mummy zombies…you haven’t been dealing with any lately, have you? Because if anyone out there has been encountering (hell, fighting) mummy-zombies and not posting pictures I’m going to be disappointed! Bonus points if you can describe their smell.
Natron. Mummies smell like Natron. Which is a very strange smelling thing indeed.