The Mummy Page #3

IMHOTEP:

Anck-su-namun soul had come back from

the dead! Now all that was needed, was to

return her organs to their rightful place

within her body.

Imhotep lifts a sacrificial knife above Anck-su-namun's breast, about to

plunge it down. The CHANTING, SWIRLING and BEATING heart CLIMAX. And that's

when the Mumia BURST IN and storm through the startled Priests. The HEAD

MUMIA SMASHES the jar with the beating heart. The MIST instantly sucks back

out of Anck-su-namun's body and IMPLODES back into the swirling hole.

Anck-su-namun's eyes close. Dying once again. Imhotep SCREAMS in rage. The

Mumia grab him and his Priests.

IMHOTEP:

My Priests were condemned to be

mummified alive.

INT. EMBALMF.RIS CHAMBER (necropolis re-vamp) - NIGHT

Inside a TORCH-LIT CHAMBER, Imhotep is held by Anubis-headed EMBALMERS. He

cringes at the flickering, impressionistic glimpses of his Priests being

embalmed and mummified alive. The horrid-looking Embalmers, using knives,

needles and thread, calmly perform their ghastly surgery on the SCREAMING

Priests, who are going insane from the procedure.

A red hot POKER is pulled out of a pit of burning coals.

A Priest's head is wedged between two strong boards. His eyes widen in

terror as an Embalmer moves to insert the red hot poker up his nose. But

just before he does, WE QUICKLY CUT TO IMHOTEP'S FACE, horrified, as OFF

CAMERA, the Priest SCREAMS.

WE GO WIDE on the chamber. All twenty-one of Imhotep's Priests squirm

inside their wrappings. Imhotep is forced to his knees. His arms are held

back. His mouth is pried open.

IMHOTEP:

As for me, I was condemned to endure

the HOM-DAI. The worst of all ancient curses.

one so horrible, it had never before been

bestowed.

Using a pair of tongs, an Embalmer slowly pulls Imhotep's TONGUE out of his

mouth, then places a very sharp knife on top of it. WE-GO TIGHT on

IMHOTEP'S EYES as his tongue is apparently cut out. The Embalmer flings

Imhotep's tongue onto the floor. The Mumia's dogs attack and quickly eat

it.

Imhotep is WRAPPED AL M . Only his mouth, nostrils and fear-filled eyes are

left free of the slimy bandages. Detritus muck boils inside a black

cauldron. Embalmers scoop out the fetid muck and apply it to Imhotep's

wrappings as he squirms. He's then laid in a wooden COFFIN inside a stone

SARCOPHAGUS. An Embalmer with a BUCKET steps up and looks into the coffin.

Imhotep's wild eyes stare back. The Embalmer empties the bucket over

Imhotep's chest:
dozens of SCARABS, disgusting dung beetles. They scurry

across Imhotep's SCREAMING face. Some vanish into his tongue-less mouth

and up his nostrils.

INHOTEP:

By eating the sacred scarabs, I would

be cursed to stay alive forever. And by

eating me, they were cursed just the same.

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