Myths, Monsters and the Mummy

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When the Mummy, starring Boris Karloff, was released by Universal studios in 1932 it was inspired by a real event, and drew upon a mix of ideas, some new, and some very old. So what is the truth behind the legend of the mummy returned from the dead? The mummy came somewhere between the myth, the monster, and history.
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@tonykyle2655 17 часов назад

"That Tom Cruise thing..." is the best description for that movie I've ever heard. :D

@JohnPaul-ii 17 часов назад

It’s best not mentioned really. But it was crap.

@33097txrattlesnake 16 часов назад

BORIS KARLOFF PLAYED THE VERY 1ST MUMMY MOVIE!, THE ORIGINAL MUMMY!. NO GRAFICS, BORIS KARLOFF SET IN THE MAKE UP CHAIR FOR 8 - 12 HOURS TO BE WRAPPED UP, AND HAVING MAKE UP PUT ON, ( DIRT, ASH. AND MORE ) ACTUALLY WAS WRAPPED UP AS MUMMY AND WAS PUT IN THE CASKET AND THE LID WAS PUT ON. LIKE HE WAS BURIED ALIVE. THANK YOU. HAVE A NICE DAY.

@charlockprime 14 часов назад

This was going to be my only comment. 🤣

@jimbob3332 6 часов назад

I remember the trailer leaking with only the vocal sounds of Tom screaming and yelling in a totally silent plane in freefall.

@heatherporterfield7343 15 часов назад

Boris Karloff in real life was a total gentleman and one of the great actors of his time.

@robertjensen1438 18 часов назад

Archeaologists in Egypt have found a mummy in a tomb in the pyramids made of chocolates and hazelnuts His name is Pharaoh rocher. What is a mummy's favorite genre of music? Wrap music. How is an Egyptian mummy similar to a fart? They have a toot in common.

@mrs.g.9816 7 часов назад

Pun my word, that's hilarious!🤣🤣🤣

@seatedliberty День назад

I am deeply disappointed that you didn't end the video by saying "That's a wrap!".

@TheHistoryGuyChannel День назад

LOL

@maryjones8741 19 часов назад

Haaaaaa!

@LymanPhillips 16 часов назад

OMG!

@lindamathes5517 15 часов назад

Hahahaha!

@debbralehrman5957 15 часов назад

😁👍🏼

@IRgEEK 17 часов назад

I can honestly say that's the first time I've been happy over a nepotism hire.

@jeenkzk5919 17 часов назад

Yeah Laemmle definitely took universal in a different direction. It apparently was so pivotal that they reach into that arsenal every year!

@keegandecker4080 16 часов назад

Oh I’ve got a mummy story. In 2016, the archaeological project I used to work for was excavating a Middle Kingdom tomb. Two mummies and many golden artifacts were found. The night after they pulled them from the earth, the guards robbed us and ran off with the mummies. Then, the boss goes and reports the theft and the police chief says they already caught them. The two guards, 16 year olds carrying AKs, were given a lengthy beating with a staff. The mummies were not recovered and we were never allowed back.

@skyden24195 7 часов назад

That's unfortunate that the project suffered because of two dumb, likely-malevolence greed-influenced kids.

@roberthevern6169 17 часов назад

We mustn't forget the work of Alfred Hitchcock and his character, Norman Bates, who 'reanimated' his deceased mother in the 'Psycho'! And then centenarian, Mel Brooks, who brought us 'Young Frankenstein', with the mad Dr Frankenstein portrayed hilariously by Gene Wilder, with supporting cast mates Peter Boyle, as the reanimated monster, assistant to Dr Frankenstein, Teri Garr, Gene Hackman, as the blind man, Marty Feldman as the hump shifting, eye wandering brain chooser, Cloris Leachman and Madeline Kahn!

@goodun2974 16 часов назад

There's a documentary film about the making of Young Frankenstein which contains many bloopers and mistakes from the original filming. It is hysterical! Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder said they were having so much fun that they didn't want the filming to end and so they kept writing new scenes!

@superdupercooper5826 15 часов назад

I think the Brendan Fraser movie gets a too much hate. Despite everything else, it is genuinely entertaining.

@skyden24195 7 часов назад

Agreed. Really, for me the only or most disappointing aspect of the Fraser/Weiz installment(s) is the use of an actual, central-bonded book for the "Book of the Dead," as opposed to a scroll. Using the names of real, historical, Egyptian persons and giving them new, fictional narratives is one thing, but taking something that is well-known to be completely, historically inaccurate is another. It'd be like the movie depicting the Pyramids at Giza as rectangular towers akin to modern skyscrapers.

@kali3665 4 часа назад

I still don't understand why the "mummy" in Tom Cruise's idiot movie has two eyes in each socket....

@RogueDragon05 4 часа назад

You mean the 3rd movie with Jet Li? The orginal Mummy with Brendan is an unquestioned beloved classic less I'm really out of touch with some circles of movie lovers.

@DK-gy7ll 4 часа назад

The first movie was great and a modern classic. The second and third were not.

@kali3665 4 часа назад

@@DK-gy7ll Boris Karloff's movie was the only good mummy movie. The Kharis movies were dumb, and the Brenden Fraser movies didn't even have to focus on a mummy since the monster was more a force of nature. And I have NO idea what the Tom Cruise movie was supposed to accomplish.

@goodun2974 15 часов назад

"Avoid stepping on Bella Lugosi, because he's liable to turn and bite/but stand close by Bette Davis, for hers was such a lonely life.....aah, but Cellulod Heroes never feel any pain/ and Celluloid Heroes never really die...." the Kinks

@irawolf 16 часов назад

This episode made me smile!😊 I had to google “that Tom Cruise thing”; I totally forgot about that mummy movie.

@lindamathes5517 15 часов назад

It was well worth being forgotten!!

@ThailandTerry2024 18 часов назад

Thanks, this video was not just fun to watch but I also learned a few things I never knew …

@sandrasmith7091 9 часов назад

I like the the fact that you brought in film, literature on the different versions. Well done, thank you

@shawnharrington9548 18 часов назад

My favorite time of year. Thank you HG.

@freyaodinsdottir2207 14 часов назад

This was awesome! i've been into Egyptology since I was little and I appreciate the deep exploration into this franchise.

@suzybolen8735 16 часов назад

"That Tom Cruise Thing" I love it. I was very disappointed in that movie.

@GregNickoloff 9 часов назад

Well, that's Tom Cruise for ya....

@blackstone777 16 часов назад

Correection: Karloff didn't play Frankenstein, he played The Monster.

@goodun2974 16 часов назад

The doctor was the real monster in the original story, and the creature was a victim of man's ego and hubris.

@chrissherer2047 5 часов назад

The creation's name in the novel was Adam.

@RogueDragon05 16 часов назад

This is great timing for me on this video as I have just recently dug out my copy of Hammer's "The Mummy" (Can never go wrong with a Cushing and Lee horror movie in October!) and planning on watching it this month. Also have been meaning to read Lovecraft and Houdini's story for years so will make it the next story I tackle after I'm done with The Whisperer in Darkness and The Willows. That shade thrown at the Crusie movie made me chuckle as well! lol

@goodun2974 15 часов назад

Little known fact: when "Lemmy" wasn't producing horror films he was playing bass with Motorhead! 😉😁

@PelenTan 17 часов назад

*grumble grumble* "That Tom Cruise thing." LoL There's damning with faint praise and then there is The History Guy slam.

@HistoryNut-1701 14 часов назад

I’ve heard of this story before. Thanks for fleshing it out with more context.

@michaelgalea5148 16 часов назад

Thanks History Guy for the enjoyable episode. I was very entertained.

@johnsimspon8893 17 часов назад

You didn't say "...that deserves to be remembered". I feel cheated.

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 16 часов назад

But you said it in your head. Mission accomplished. ;)

@johnsimspon8893 14 часов назад

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel I've been upstaged by the dude. Respek

@goodun2974 15 часов назад

An aide to Carter at the dig site: "Is that a sarcophagus you've got there or are you just glad to see me?"😉

@gracemember101 12 часов назад

You mention the Abbott and Costello movie. That is the only other movie in which Bela Lugosi played the part of Dracula. Strange that his portrayal is iconic with only two Dracula movies to his credit.

@matthewnothdurft8037 18 часов назад

thankyou sir your videos are always high quality informative look forward to every one! 👍

@casketman14 14 часов назад

If you ever want content, forgotten history about Puerto Rico is a good topic..

@veramae4098 17 часов назад

There's a great adventure / archeology series by Elizabeth Peters, starring "Amelia Peabody", covers the earliest excavations to the discovery of Tut.

@DDlambchop43 12 часов назад

She also writes actual historical stuff under the name of Barbara mertz.

@jahyoda 18 часов назад

Gold Sarcophagus Cufflinks 😍

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 17 часов назад

From the British museum

@jahyoda 17 часов назад

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel your collection is impressive sir 👏

@chrissherer2047 5 часов назад

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel I would love to hear you and Irving Finkle discuss Ancient Mesopotamia tidbits.

@garyclark3843 4 часа назад

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel The home of other people's stuff.

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 3 часа назад

@@garyclark3843 I don’t think the cufflinks were looted…

@Kristenhas3cats 14 часов назад

Love this! Can't wait for more Halloween history!

@jamesmiller4184 11 часов назад

Reliable Grapevine authority has it that H.M. King Farouk often had "The Mummy" and the few that closely followed, shown at the Kubbah Palace theater. The ever-fascinated boy within young Prince Farouk never left him, I think. On the other hand his father H.M. Fuad was rather stern and an indefatigable task-master, having the Palace staff UP very early to get to work. That staff sighed a sure sigh of relief when Farouk became King; then all arising rather later to far milder duties! HISTORY GUY -- you could do far worse than focusing on the three Kings of Modern Egypt (the last one alive-still and kicking!) for after all, that history deserves remembering too, just as here with their celluloided mummies.

@LorettaLong-pr3wg 4 часа назад

The Mummy is my top favorite classic horror film! I love Boris Karloff in this role. He was a brilliant actor in all of his roles. Also loved his narration in The Grinch, which happens to be my favorite children's Christmas movie. Thanks for this presentation! I truly enjoy your channel!! 🎭

@constipatedinsincity4424 18 часов назад

Lon Chaney Sr. Would have been which Universal Movie Monster ? He was the best Phantom of the Opera and the Best Hunchback of Notre Dame. Better than Paul Horning!😅

@JesseOaks-ef9xn 16 часов назад

Dracula was the name given to Vlad the impaler. He was a real man and he was very cruel. There were tales of evil spirits in that region. Bram Stoker just took those legends and myths and built his own blood sucking monster.

@MichaelGeneSullivan 13 часов назад

I wish you had said more about the Poe story, which is so different than all the others, with the plot revolving around the Mummy being a time traveller. Rather than the modern characters being the most scientifically advanced the culture of ancient Egypt is presented as much more developed. (Also Europeans, during the 19th century, had also used mummies as fuel, burning them in locomotives and using their ground-up bodies for a particular brown paint, and the guilt of using them in such ways may have also inspired a guilt that led to a fear of the Mummy's Curse.)

@tgill2943 12 часов назад

As a teen, I'm 74 now, I read a collection of "Humorous Essays" by Edgar Allen Poe. This was one of the stories included. Humorous indeed! I have had a warped sense of humor ever more. Thanks Lance for an excellent, and as always, beautifully presented video.Thanks also for the memory lesson Friend,

@glenns5627 5 часов назад

Here's a tidbit more on those lines; there were so many mummified cats found in Egypt, that they were "mined" and used as fertilizer. The only good cat ... JK, I own 4 myself. Live ones.

@randyhebbebusche3644 6 часов назад

This was fun. I tried to find more on the mummy story. Very interesting history. Karloff was great as the Mummy.

@HM2SGT 18 часов назад

*_Vampires, Mummies and the Holy Ghost_* These are the things that terrify me the most No aliens, psychopaths or MTV hosts Scares me like vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost _Jimmy Buffett off his 1994 album Fruitcakes_

@Frostedminifirecracker 13 часов назад

My cousin and I would play chase with him playing the mummy. That was 60 years ago. We still call each other “Addisth Bey” when emailing. ❤😂

@kjtherrick4031 10 часов назад

Very interesting, as usual. Thank you!

@CaptainHarris-ip2kg 13 часов назад

I grew up a Star Trek fan (seeded to Roddenberry by my parents), and watched a lot of scifi and fantasy, and was introduced to gaming via Star Fleet Battles designed by Steve Cole. I was going to put things like D&D or warsims up on the big screen, but my mother and her friends didn't like me gaming, and torpedoed every effort. Decades later screenwriters play games and write screenplays based on their gaming session. The modern Mummy is such a film.

@Pocketfarmer1 13 часов назад

Your closing statement while holding the doll , that it is history just not the history of ancient Egypt, begs the question, what is history?

@HM2SGT 17 часов назад

*I've never found horror movies horrifying, but that's probably because I'm a disabled veteran and a career medic & firefighter, & I know full well 'The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.'* ~Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes, 1911

@constipatedinsincity4424 18 часов назад

What do they say to you when a mummy con man takes your money? 💰 EGYPT YOU! WAKA WAKA 😊

@koboldlord 17 часов назад

Fascinating look!

@MightyMezzo 11 часов назад

Fun subject! One of the Universal mummy sequels (which declined in quality dramatically from the Karloff) has police commanders, scientists, and other reasonably intelligent humans *automatically* attribute the murders to a mummy walking around loose. Like it was a normal thing!

@jamesmoss3424 17 часов назад

Mummy are great in horror movies 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽. 😀👍

@Redmenace96 5 часов назад

Great episode! Connecting movie history, real history, and fiction.

@RetiredSailor60 18 часов назад

Good Hump Day morning.

@DK-gy7ll 4 часа назад

My absolute favorite Far Side cartoon is where a man uses a bathroom stall and starts pulling on what he thinks is a roll of toilet paper, only to discover it's actually the wrappings of a mummy using the next stall and thus invoking the mummy's wrath.

@stevecausey545 15 часов назад

That was fun, thank you!

@patriciadean1649 12 часов назад

You have a great channel-thank you for all the info ❤

@DDlambchop43 12 часов назад

Its not strictly a mummy movie but there's a tv movie from2006 called the curse of king Tut. It's pretty good.

@rickbrandt9559 14 часов назад

Another Wild Flowers Highway adventure ! THX

@nikburton9264 15 часов назад

I made that corncob jelly. It wasn't bad. It was great sweetening my corn silk tea. Great mummy stuff.

@GrinderCB 59 минут назад

The Egyptian craze in pop culture lasted some time and wasn't merely a fad of only a few years. Even the Three Stooges got in on it with their short, "We Want Our Mummy" from 1939. Moe, Larry and Curly travel to Cairo looking for a missing Egyotologist and to retrieve the mummy of King Rootentooten. While in the tomb they also come across the mummy of Queen Hotsytotsy.

@jeffbangkok 18 часов назад

Good evening

@constipatedinsincity4424 18 часов назад

Back in the Saddle Again Naturally

@anthonycalbillo9376 8 часов назад

Oooo Halloween season is here at The History Guy! I watch!

@timmcquerry6068 14 часов назад

I notice several of the "lobby cards" referred to "Korloff the uncanny ". I've not seen this term,what might that mean? Thanks Lance.

@HM2SGT 17 часов назад

*I was horrified by the use of cat mummies for heating, cooking and fertilizer in England...*

@GregNickoloff 9 часов назад

We eat them in Ohio....

@HM2SGT 7 часов назад

@@GregNickoloffI'm aware that some folks have fevered imaginations and are so funny in the head they see no reason they shouldn't invent things for attention. And some folks are so unhinged that they'll repeat anything because their Zealot fanatic sycophant fans believe whatever they tell them.

@highpath4776 11 часов назад

Mummies in Scooby Doo , at least once a season ?

@paulamcclure3402 58 минут назад

A mummy in 'Jonny Quest' too... "The Curse of Anubis" (S1, E3; Orig. Aired Oct 2, 1964).

@studogable 4 часа назад

On Imhotep: I was under the impression that the historical figure was the guy who essentially invented the Egyptian pyramid design - not an obscure figure as this video implies.

@johnsimspon8893 17 часов назад

May I apologise for the diktats of The British Museum. We are bombarded with this kind of crap in Britain these days.

@johnmonkey1874 29 минут назад

So, they are now calling them "mummified remains"? Doesn't roll off the tongue, does it? "Hey John, what'd you do this weekend?" "Well, I saw this great horror movie called 'The Mummified Remains!!!' It scared the bejesus outta me!."

@ricksaint2000 2 часа назад

Thank you History Guy

@BasicDrumming 8 часов назад

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

@bronwynecg 17 часов назад

I will always recoil in revulsion that there were literally pigments in England/Europe made out of Egyptian mummies.🤢😤 Like, DUUUUUDDEEEEE that was a living person at one point.

@HM2SGT 17 часов назад

How about all the mummified cats that were shipped to England to be burned to keep people warm and cook their food?

@jeenkzk5919 17 часов назад

Perfume used to use whale puke!

@goodun2974 16 часов назад

A few extremely expensive perfumes still do use Ambergris, the waxy intestinal product of squid-eating sperm whales. The whales neither puke it up nor defecate it; the lump of squid beaks and wax builds up into the digestive system until it causes a blockage, the animal dies, and the Ambergris floats free as the whale's body disintegrates. The more time it spends floating at sea the more it purifies, ages, and concentrates its aroma. Beachcombers who specialize in finding it, especially in places like Australia and New Zealand, can earn a lot of money if they get lucky. See the book"Floating Gold".

@sandrasmith7091 9 часов назад

Yes I've heard about that curse. Creepy

@debbralehrman5957 15 часов назад

Thanks👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@rafaelramos1486 4 часа назад

I love those old moster movies.

@steveshoemaker6347 5 часов назад

Where i live i see lots of Mummy's walking around and it is scary stuff LOL....Thank THG🎀 FOR HIS AWESOME HISTORY VIDEO'S Old F-4 pilot Shoe🇺🇸

@kellybasham3113 12 часов назад

Love your videos

@SubtleNuggets 12 часов назад

Hey, History Guy, I think this is almost forgotten but could you do a story of the original Wind Talkers of World War I?

@GermanShepherd1983 3 часа назад

I haven't watched in a long time. What happened to the History Cat?

@rogergoodman8665 6 часов назад

I was born in the middle of the night and have been told that I'm a creature of the night many times, so my favorite movie monster has always been Count Dracula !!!

@garycarpenter6433 9 часов назад

The original poster is worth a fortune somewhere out there in a forgotten closet, safe, it's under someone house 🏘️ I have a copy I got from Dollar Tree and it's a Halloween decoration.. Karloff is the best to play the Mummy I've seen all of the Universal Studios monster movies several times

@TomiTapio 11 часов назад

All right, adding "mummy's curse" and "Cagliostro" concepts to #TimelineOfMankind project... And when did talk of horror movies/films rise. (Ngrams site will tell) 🎃💥🎃

@BladeStar-uq6xe 8 часов назад

Tutmania! The discovery of King Tut's tomb caused the whole world to go crazy with Egyptian myth and mysticism! This inspired Indiana Jones and Lara Croft!

@mhtyler 10 часов назад

Very much enjoyed this, but I don't think you mentioned that The Mummy and Dracula are essentially the same movie. The plots are identical with only minor changes. Nevertheless, I'm a fan of many of the original Universal monster movies, including The Wolf Man, which came 8 years later, but for my money is the best and most original of the bunch. Of course they made many movies where most of these cut-ups got together, except for the Mummy because the geographic settings were incompatible.

@sirguy6678 8 часов назад

Excellent video!

@danielmkubacki 9 часов назад

So interesting.

@timmorris8932 15 часов назад

I absolutely love the very dismissive, " and that Tom Cruise thing".

@John-g6x1h 11 часов назад

I suppose "mummified remains" is more accurately descriptive, but I fail to see how "mummy" is somehow dehumanizing.

@CheshireTomcat68 11 часов назад

6:06 A mummy brought back from the dead by use of a squirrel!

@TheCosmicGuy0111 18 часов назад

Spooooky

@HughSteckel 9 часов назад

Great video

@johnopalko5223 3 часа назад

And who can forget Bubba Ho-Tep?

@SocialistDistancing Час назад

Imagine if these people came to the present, and saw how they were portrayed. They'd probably laugh at how incorrect it was.

@tony-lx6cz 4 часа назад

I sure did enjoy the Peter Cushing Christopher Lee Dracula Saturday matinees. Anyone remember those days.

@kevinvilmont6061 6 часов назад

Lot #249.?😎thanks. I will check it out

@sandrasmith7091 8 часов назад

Loved it😊

@TimHunold 15 часов назад

Mummies = dusty zombies

@ExposingReflections 9 часов назад

A genre that inspires entire swaths of civilization to become interested in a single nations history; causing research including one of the newest drugs, based on ancient Egyptian use of a certain plant inspiring a modern schizophrenia medication.... We should celebrate the genere as well as the Egyptian old culture and new because they have given so much to ours, unintentionally.

@merlinwizard1000 17 часов назад

19th, 2 October 2024

@joegordon5117 10 часов назад

"The Wrath of Pharoah shall come on swift wings for those who do not click Like and Subscribe on THG's videos"

@joanhoffman3702 4 часа назад

😂😂😂

@e-remes7029 7 часов назад

Thou shalt not mention the TC version in the same breath as the 1999 BF/ RW version.😂

@fuferito 16 часов назад

The thumbnail looks like the badly decomposed remains of Bill Burr.

@spencergay8283 17 часов назад

Is it nepotism if he was so successful?

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 16 часов назад

LOL yes. Nepotism doesn't mean not successful. That term is actually in a quotation,. But, "dad put me in charge of Universal Studios at age 21" probably qualifies.

@AretzJustin 9 часов назад

I will die on this hill Millies is Mill-yay

@skyden24195 7 часов назад

Vampires are a real thing. Have you not ever heard of the very real vampire bat? 🤔😉😁

@iconoclastpleonast8726 11 часов назад

Back when a 21 year old was considered (and proved) to be an adult capable of adult business responsibilities instead of playing at videos games and cosplay. Too bad you did not have a Fritos Mummy. Dehumanizing a mummy? Really. Are the Brits now going to send letters to their mothers: "Dearest Mummified Remains"? Who knew pc foolishness started so far back in time.