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I'm Ashley. I want the demon loose.
I know, you know, I get it, I get it.
You enjoy kidnaping children.
It's fine. It's good.
On record, but put that on record.
Clip it.
No, no.
Yeah.
I'm like, who's gonna who's
gonna take care of this as Moroni?
And then, you know, somebody care for
this has no radio.
Hello,
and welcome to film Curious Ashley here.
I'm joined by Pete,
and we're going to do a little brief
discussion on The Mummy,
the most recent movie under that title,
not to be mistaken, by the 1999 film
starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weiss.
This is written
and directed by Lee Cronin.
He also did Evil Dead Rise.
I'll be honest,
I don't know his work very much.
Not seen Evil Dead, right?
I have not I'm not I'm not a.
Big spectacular.
It really okay. It is. Well.
It might be my favorite Evil Dead movie.
Well, yeah.
Then I'll, I'll have to have to
see this one then, because I'm not a big
I won't I won't go
see every horror movie that comes out.
I'll be honest,
I'm a little bit of like a high brow
type when it comes to horror movies.
But this one, The Mummy, the basic plot.
I'll read the synopsis.
It's funny, when I read synopsis,
I always just feel like I have to mention
that I'm reading it because sometimes,
like the marketing esque like.
Tagline will.
Pop up in the synopsis,
and it's really funny,
and I just want to be like,
I did not write that.
I'm not summarizing a movie like this,
but for this one, the young daughter
of a journalist disappears into the desert
without a trace.
Eight years later, the broken family is
shocked when she is returned to them, as
what should be a joyful reunion
turns into a living nightmare.
This film stars Jack Reiner.
Few probably know him from Midsommar
plays the I call him the bad boyfriend.
Who's the the father in this unfair.
He deserved what he got.
Leah Acosta, who is playing Larisa
the mother may Calum, Molly
if I'm pronouncing her name, her last name
correctly, I know her from Rami.
And you, the audience most popularly
probably know her from Moon Knight.
If you saw Moon Knight, who's playing
Detective Dalia Zaki.
Natalie Greece.
Yeah, I loved her on Rami, honestly.
And she was great on Moon Knight
and Moon Knight, and then Natalie Grace
to mention the daughter who plays Katie
as the
The Mummy version,
because then there's a child actor
who plays her in before,
beforehand, and then Hyatt.
I'm going to mention her too, because
I think she does have a pretty big role.
Hi Kamal, who did I on IMDb?
They named her as the magician,
which is interesting in the casting
in the credits on IMDb.
And she's the the Egyptian mother.
Is the.
Opening scene.
Yeah, that's what they label her as.
It was super interesting.
Technically correct.
I guess they don't.
They felt there was no other way
to describe her without spoiling things.
Maybe is why she's listed as that,
but that seems unnecessary, I don't know.
Very funny.
Yeah, at that now I sure, sure, whatever.
That's fine.
Yeah. Why not?
I guess she does one.
One magic trick, maybe several,
I don't know.
But yeah.
So that's that's The Mummy,
the latest Leigh Cronin film
that we were able
to get to see this past week.
I, I think we're probably on the same page
about how we felt about this.
Maybe I'm a little bit
more lukewarm than Pete is, but
it was fun.
I think I was kind of hoping
for a little bit
more of the mystery reveal,
instead of a lot of like, I feel like it
fell on a lot of horror tropes
or check boxes.
I feel like it was very, you know,
sound effect heavy, intense, music heavy.
You could kind of know
when a jump scare was coming or something
scary was coming
based off of the music, cuz, you know, so
but it was still like conceptually,
I was, I was in like I bought in
especially the trailer cap
captured my attention and this is why
I did actually want to see it,
because like I said, I'm not I'm
not a super horror genre fan,
but I like to give things a shot.
So, Pete, how did.
How did you feel about this one?
So this is like
this is the third universal,
you know, retake of some classic horror
films with Invisible Man,
The Wolfman
and now Leigh Cronin's The Mummy.
I like the approach of it.
It is 2.5 hours long though,
215 and. 215.
But it's really interesting
that when you look it up in other places,
it says two and a half,
and then sometimes it's 250.
Two and a half.
When I said the actual,
I felt it felt like
two and a half to think it needed to be.
I have no problem with long movies,
but I don't think it needed to go on
for that long
because it had a cool little story.
It is a nice, interesting, different
take on The Mummy,
but was what I felt really interesting
though, was as I was watching it,
you know, being a fan of Evil
Dead Rise and of the franchise,
it struck me of how much
The Mummy like in theory, it's
just is an Evil Dead movie.
Or I guess, how much an Evil Dead
movie is The Mummy.
Someone unearths something they shouldn't
and they read something they shouldn't,
and that unleashes a dark energy
that brings in, you know, they wind up
getting cronies to do what they want
for them and to try to destroy the world.
And I was like, oh, this guy really stayed
like, right in that lane.
So it felt I think that was the thing
is that it felt too much
like an Evil Dead movie that just happened
to have a different title at the front.
And at the same time,
it also felt like an Exorcist movie.
So yeah, I could see that.
So I don't know if, if throwing
if while the idea of it being this child
and stuff gives it a new angle,
but in giving it a new angle,
it felt like a lot of other things that
I had already seen just with other titles.
So that kind of really distracted
me, actually, for a while
when I was watching it, I was like,
I can't believe how much this is
like an Evil Dead movie.
So that that was a bit of a downer for me.
Otherwise, though.
Yeah, if it was 25 minutes shorter,
I think I would have liked it a lot more.
I think this is like a solid, you know,
like six and a half low seven out of ten.
But there's some good stuff
here to work with.
There's some baffling
stuff in here. Also, though,
what hospital is letting this kid go
home is he might not what I'm supposed to.
I know you're not supposed to worry
about that stuff when you're watching,
you know, a horror movie in particular.
You got to really throw some reality
out the window.
But this child needs 24
seven over watching.
They have no idea what's wrong with her.
No one does.
Yeah, the vitals are fine.
You look. You're fine.
Oh, no. We don't know
what's going on in her brain.
We haven't. Checked brainwaves.
Apparently,
we have to sedate her. But, you know.
We'll send you home with some. Drugs and.
Her loose. Good luck. But that's okay.
And, you know, things happen later that
you're like, did you not take an x ray?
Because, you know, again, like,
this is all logic brain stuff
that you're really not supposed to worry
about when you're watching it.
But it's it's tough
when it's right in front of you sometimes.
And yeah, that was one of the big things.
I was like this,
I should not be letting this girl go home.
It's clearly
something wrong with this child.
And it's not. Just.
You know, oh,
they you know, she's a little
she's been a little kept out of the.
Seven ticks. Yeah. Well there was.
Yeah. You.
She's developed
some weird tendencies, but,
you know, nothing a little love can't do,
you know, just some.
If they were just been.
You could. Fix that.
You could fix that by.
Because there there is a
there is an ongoing thing
in the movie of the mother being very,
very strong on.
No, we can we can take care of this.
So if you have like a short scene,
which, you know,
the movie was as long as it was,
I don't think I don't think
making 30 minutes 30s would have mattered.
You could have had a scene where she
insisted upon,
no, we're taking her home now, you know,
and then you justified that whole thing,
and that's 10s 15 seconds.
You can do that in.
And then it wouldn't have been again.
It's it's logic brain stuff
and it doesn't matter.
And I know your thing towards the end
where it's.
You know, we'll do it. We'll do a spoiler.
Why not.
I mean, this is going to be.
A do you think anyone really gives I don't
I don't think if you haven't seen it yet
I don't think anyone's like man.
Although that said,
I just read this today.
Actually the movie made 100 million now,
so on a on a box office
on a budget of like 22 million,
they have now crossed over
$100 million globally.
Wow. So people showed up
and to be honest, good.
I like when horror movies do well.
And even though this one wasn't, you know,
everything that I really hoped for, it's
something that I'll probably watch again
at a curiosity to see if certain things
work better for me.
I don't want to watch Wolf Man again.
I really didn't enjoy that one.
Invisible man I really liked Lee one.
I love Invisible Man with Elisabeth Moss.
Yeah, but this one, I'll revisit it
at some point.
I'll also revisit it
because I went to an AMC theater and the
picture looked terrible, so I'd actually.
Yeah, it was
it was actually visually out of focus.
I don't know if that's a whole movie,
I doubt it.
No. Yeah.
I didn't have any.
It was pretty crystal clear at my theater.
Yeah, I will, I will probably,
depending on what the price is
when it hits 4K, I'll pick it up
and I'll watch it at home again.
So yeah it's
a missed it's miss overall for me. But
it's kind of a fascinating miss
just because if you watch it
and just imagine it's called Evil Dead
Mummy Rises, you'd be like well shit,
yeah, this is all right, you know?
So I had to look up the
this is going to be
let's just spoiler spoilers
on for the next five minutes
because I just have to
I have to get it out.
I looked up the name of the demon
for this
film, what turns out to be like the van,
the villain.
Even though they try to make
they try to make them the magician.
The mother kind of the villain,
which I think is strange.
But anyway.
Children, her entire life.
Her entire life, or the entire family
legacy life of, she said, 82.
Yeah, I.
Know mummification for the legacy.
Of her family did it.
You know, she could have been like,
this is a. Family, but like,
somebody has to
be sacrificed to keep the is it.
Okay, let me get the name of this thing,
the net.
Let me get the name of this thing right.
I wrote it down.
Where the heck. Is it as Namor?
Yeah, I really just stupid thing down.
It's like.
It's really. Oh, here we go. As Merania.
As Marina. As Marina? Yeah.
Destroyer of families.
Okay, so I look this thing up.
It's not an Egyptian demon.
This is not like
if you're thinking that this thing
is like a real Egyptian mythology.
Now, it is not.
This is made up for the film.
Okay? So just.
Mummies aren't real either.
No, I mean, the concept, but, you know,
I don't know, so that's fine.
It's is fine.
It's just funny that it's like it's
this whole thing is totally there's no
if you're thinking
that you're seeing anything based off of,
like, an Egyptian myth or, or,
you know, folklore or something.
This is this is not it.
So I just feel like I want to state that,
but that kind of lens to like,
you're like, oh, it's just a, it's
an Exorcist movie, you know, like.
Yeah, it's.
That's fine.
It's just a made up Egyptian exorcist,
that's all.
Yeah, it's very much an Exorcist movie.
That's how I felt.
And with Mike Flanagan film
or just wrapping up on his Exorcist movie.
Not that I think anyone,
when that comes out will be like,
well,
this reminds me of Lee Cronin's The Mummy.
I don't think that's going to
happen, but I'll be curious
to see if there's any kind of
crossing of the streams
there in approach.
Just because this is coming,
this is now, you know, it's out right now.
And I want to say
his exorcist is next year,
if not even maybe later this year.
Let me take a quick
look at that. Actually.
Anxious is.
Yeah.
Flanagan
because he's got the whole crew 2027.
So it'll be next year.
So yeah, I'm curious what the hell that's
going to look like around the same time.
Full confidence.
Yeah I'm excited I'm excited him.
But okay. So you think so?
You think that this mother, the magician,
should be a total villain?
Look who's going to keep the.
You know that.
You're just gonna have to get
somebody else to then put it in its body.
You're in there
if you're so worried about it.
Yeah. I mean, she should have.
That's where she's. Well, there.
We go wrong.
But like anybody who decides any like
that's still not good.
That if she put her own sacrifices,
her own child, you know.
She's not the family by any means,
you know.
No, no, I'm not.
I'm not trying to say that either. I mean.
I. Can't find her alive.
But, like, I want the demon loose,
and I don't, you know, I get it, I get it.
You enjoy. Kidnaping history.
It's fine.
It's good.
On record, but put that on record.
Clip it. No, no. Yeah.
I'm like,
who's gonna who's gonna take care of this?
Then? You know somebody.
After this in the question.
I don't know.
Apparently the family then think of a.
Way of doing it then I don't know.
I like how the family was
all on board to like,
there seemed to be like,
other people in the video.
Oh, yeah? Yeah. No.
But then the husband is.
And they've passed it down
like, through generations.
You know, she's,
Oh did fare in in The Mummy.
Right.
But I don't think she's a positive person.
She just tried to kill the father.
No, no. No, I mean, you know.
Right, right.
When she goes out, she's, like,
ready to murder everyone.
Maybe these people. That's true.
She's like. Kill her own.
That'd be.
That's what have been better
if they would have just been like,
can we just discussed this for a minute
so we can understand
what the hell is going on,
and then they all want.
To figure. It out.
Let's find another kid.
Like not one. Not mine together.
Yeah, well, you need them young, she said.
You need the body fresh last longer
so they don't have to continuously
do this, you know? Yeah.
You could just grab some old people
in hospice, but,
you know,
they're not going to last you very long.
You're going to have to
continuously perform this ritual.
I was curious,
though, of how long that is.
Like, is it a lifetime?
Is is it like a human, a human lifespan?
I don't.
Know, that's a good question because,
yeah, like if she needs them young, then,
I guess, yeah, I don't could go.
This is a Logan's Run question where,
you know, was what, like 35 years old,
everyone had to go to carousel,
which meant you died.
You know, you gotta you gotta make this
a little more of a public thing.
I'm sure it'll be well handled extremely
well off the public into it,
but you just want to. You just want to.
Your business.
The magicians
just taking care of business.
I said, you know,
she's protecting the world.
It's Jack Rayner's fault again for you.
That's all it is.
You just want to be.
I mean, don't leave your kid
out in the backyard with. No.
Yeah.
Don't leave your kid in the backyard.
Look at you.
The latch key.
No, actually, I think
I think children need less supervision,
so I think actually, Jack Rayner
was doing a good job as a father.
That's good parenting.
I don't play minimal for this one.
Girls
just gotta learn to throw the chocolates
out in the goddamn garbage though.
Also, it's a terrible hiding place.
Just put chocolate.
Dollhouse. Yeah.
Dollhouse. What are you doing?
You. You kids do this, though? Like my.
Highly would, like, throw
throw junk by behind a chair.
So it was like a cherry
like catty cornered at my sister's house,
and we were like, what is that smell?
And like, she was throwing junk and,
like, food and stuff,
like, over the little catty corner.
So, like, again,
not a great hiding spot, but, you know,
you find it.
But this is what children do.
So, you know, it's really the kids
that are the problem here.
Yeah. Eventually. Yeah. It
surely that's what it comes down to.
What we're saying is
your kids are the problem.
Thank you to the mummy
for breaking that to the forefront.
All right.
Well, I mean I think that's enough on
on that movie, but not, not.
It wasn't my cup of tea,
but I still I still enjoyed the journey.
So I really did spend a good 20,
30 minutes being like, it's
just an Evil Dead movie.
You know, never even happen
if you like density.
So I guess.
I'm on to a longer horror track now,
because now I gotta go
watch go watch that. You just watch.
I mean, outside
of, like, it's a horror movie.
What is her name?
The lead actress performance in Dead Rise
by Alyssa Sutherland is spectacular.
One of the great physical
performances
in a horror movie specifically.
But she's excellent.
There's there's a great vibe to that.
And actually, that house is it's a shame
because that was going to be a house
at Halloween Horror Nights
three seasons ago or something like that.
And when they put the film out
for screenings, just,
you know, for reaction screenings,
it did really well.
And it was supposed to go to streaming,
not theaters at first,
but then it scored so well.
They were like, oh, we're going to
we're going to put this in theaters.
So it changed the whole release
schedule of the movie,
and they pulled the movie from hen
like at the last minute.
So HHS had to come up
with another idea hell block.
Like it was still in theaters.
Like they.
Know it wasn't
going to be out in theaters yet.
Oh yeah.
So they were like,
no, you can't do this anymore, you know?
Which is something that happens
more frequent than not.
Scream.
That and conjuring are three
that come to my head immediately.
But yeah,
we missed out on an Evil Dead house.
But it was funny because
when you first entered this other house,
the front of it, you didn't know it
at the time, but it was sort of like
it's the facade for the the building,
the apartment building and the movie.
So when I saw the movie, I was like,
Oh, that looks really familiar.
So yeah, fun stuff.
Anyhow, mummy, check it out eventually.
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
Thanks for listening guys.
Hope you enjoyed
this little brief review of it.
And we'll be talking about some other
horror stuff I'm sure, coming up soon.
So thanks for listening. Bye.
Hey, guys.
Ashley here.
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