The Mummy (1999 film)

The Mummy is a 1999 American action adventure horror film written and directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, and Kevin J. OConnor, with Arnold Vosloo in the title role as the reanimated mummy. It is a loose remake of the 1932 film The Mummy which starred Boris Karloff in the title role.

In Thebes, Egypt, 1290 BC, high priest Imhotep engages in an affair with AncksuNamun, the mistress of Pharaoh Seti I. When the Pharaoh discovers their tryst, Imhotep and AncksuNamun kill him. As Setis guards arrive, Imhotep flees while AncksuNamun kills herself, intending for Imhotep to resurrect her. After AncksuNamuns burial, Imhotep and his priests steal her corpse and travel to Hamunaptra, the city of the dead, where they begin the resurrection ceremony. However, the group is intercepted by Setis bodyguards, the Medjai, before the ritual can be completed, and AncksuNamuns soul is sent back to the Underworld. Imhoteps priests are all mummified alive. Imhotep himself is sentenced to immortal agony, condemned to suffer the Hom Dai curse having his tongue removed and then being buried alive with flesh eating scarab beetles. Imhotep is buried under high security, sealed away in a sarcophagus at the feet of a statue of the Egyptian god Anubis, and kept under strict surveillance by the Medjai, since if Imhotep were ever to resurrect, the entire world would be doomed.In 1923, well over 3000 years after Imhotep was buried, a unit of the French Foreign Legion battle with Tuareg nomads at Hamunaptra. The unit is swiftly overwhelmed, leaving only two survivors cowardly Hungarian thief Beni Gabor flees, while his American friend and soldier Rick OConnell is cornered. The nomads suddenly flee in terror when they hear sinister whispers, and Rick quickly follows them when the ground appears to come to life. Watching from afar, the Medjai, watched over the Tuaregs and the Legion, and decided to let the desert kill OConnell. ........

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