Lee Cronin's The Mummy
Plot
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In [[Aswan]], Egypt, a family arrives at their home to find |
In [[Aswan]], Egypt, a family arrives at their home to find their pet bird has died. The parents go to the cellar of the house, which is revealed to be built on top of a mostly-buried black pyramid. Inside, a black [[basalt]] sarcophagus holds the mummified remains of a body. The mummy starts to move, and the man is killed by a supernatural presence. |
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In [[Cairo]], investigative TV reporter Charlie Cannon lives with his pregnant wife, Larissa, and their children Katie and Sebastián. One morning Katie is visited by the woman from Aswan, known as the Magician. She claims to be her friend Layla's mother, and lures Katie to the fence with candy before abducting her. Charlie chases them through a sandstorm but loses them. They report the kidnapping to the authorities, working with an English-speaking junior detective, Dalia Zaki, while the lead detective heavily suspects the parents. |
In [[Cairo]], investigative TV reporter Charlie Cannon lives with his pregnant wife, Larissa, and their children Katie and Sebastián. One morning Katie is visited by the woman from Aswan, known as the Magician. She claims to be her friend Layla's mother, and lures Katie to the fence with candy before abducting her. Charlie chases them through a sandstorm but loses them. They report the kidnapping to the authorities, working with an English-speaking junior detective, Dalia Zaki, while the lead detective heavily suspects the parents. |
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Eight years later, Charlie, Larissa, Sebastian and their third child Maud now live in the [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]] home of Larissa’s Catholic mother, Carmen. |
Eight years later, Charlie, Larissa, Sebastian and their third child Maud now live in the [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]] home of Larissa’s Catholic mother, Carmen. In Aswan, a teenager witnesses a plane crash which kills its two pilots, and reveals its cargo to be the sarcophagus. Archaeologists find a mummified but alive Katie inside, wrapped in parchment that has ancient inscriptions on it. Despite her being in a catatonic state and dependent on sedatives to keep her from self-harming, Charlie and Larissa decide to move Katie back home. |
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| ⚫ | The family settles Katie into her bedroom, refusing to seek further medical help. However, Katie's behavior is erratic and unpredictable and she frequently escapes her room and mutilates herself. Noticing the inscriptions on Katie's bandages, Charlie consults an archaeology professor at Albuquerque Community College. The professor explains the transcriptions are about the ancient demon Nasmaranian, the destroyer of families and communities which is kept at bay through a ritual mummification that binds the entity using script-laced wrappings embedded in skin. The more the scripture is removed, the more powerful the demon becomes. |
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In Aswan, a teenager witnesses a plane crash which kills its two pilots, and reveals its cargo to be the sarcophagus. Archaeologists find a mummified Katie inside, wrapped in parchment that has ancient inscriptions on it. When some of the parchment is removed, Katie wakes and is revealed to be alive. Despite her being in a catatonic state and dependent on sedatives to keep her from self-harming, Charlie and Larissa decide to move Katie back home. |
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| ⚫ | Charlie realizes that Katie is communicating with him via [[Morse code]] and translates the name Layla. He finds an unopened support letter from Katie's old friend, Layla Khalil, featuring a picture of the candy Katie was lured with. He relays the name to Dalia in Cairo, who traces the letter to the house in Aswan. Dalia investigates the property, discovers the pyramid and shoots the Magician when she is attacked. During the chaos, Layla arrives home and gives Dalia a VHS tape with the label 'Katie'. Katie shed more of her bindings, takes control of her sibling's minds and later attacks and kills Carmen. At Carmen's funeral, Katie and Maud cause chaos by terrorizing the guests and desecrating their grandmother's corpse. |
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| ⚫ | The family settles Katie into her bedroom, refusing to seek further medical help. However, Katie's behavior is erratic and unpredictable |
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| ⚫ | Dalia arrives in New Mexico with the tape, which reveals the ritual that originally transferred the demon into Katie by the Magician, who is a member of an ancient cult tasked with keeping the Nasmaranian buried by offering it living hosts. While Charlie and Larissa watch the tape, Katie hypnotizes Sebastian upstairs, forcing him to help her skin herself to remove more scripture. She attacks her parents and Dalia, beating Charlie bloody and forcing a scorpion into Dalia's throat. Having memorized the demonic transfer chant from the tape, Dalia helps the family transfer the demon from Katie into Charlie, who willingly sacrifices himself. Bound inside a coffin in the basement, Charlie manages to tap "I love you" in Morse code. Katie, now free of demonic possession, slowly starts to recover and build a proper relationship with her siblings. |
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| ⚫ | Some time later, Larissa calls Dalia saying they need to "talk about Charlie." Back in Cairo, the Magician, revealed to have survived being shot, is now incarcerated. Larissa and Dalia arrive in her cell, sedate her, and reveal the possessed Charlie. Dalia starts the chant of the ritual that will free Charlie from possession while sacrificing the Magician. |
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As Katie sheds more of her bindings, the demon's power intensifies, manipulating the minds of Sebastian and Maud. When Carmen prays over Katie, she violently attacks her and throws her out of the window, where she is devoured by coyotes. At Carmen's funeral, Katie escapes her locked room, bites a hole in Carmen's corpse and drinks the embalming fluid. In a trance, Maud tears out her own teeth and begins attacking the others with Carmen's dentures. |
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| ⚫ | Dalia arrives in New Mexico with the tape, which reveals the ritual that originally transferred the demon into Katie by the Magician, who is a member of an ancient cult tasked with keeping the Nasmaranian buried by offering it living hosts |
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Having memorized the demonic transfer chant from the tape, Dalia helps the family transfer the demon from Katie into Charlie, who willingly sacrifices himself. Bound inside a coffin-like box in the basement, Charlie manages to tap "I love you" in Morse code. Katie, now free of demonic possession, slowly starts to recover and build a proper relationship with her siblings. |
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| ⚫ | Some time later, Larissa calls Dalia saying they need to "talk about Charlie." Back in Cairo, the Magician, revealed to have survived, is now incarcerated. |
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==Cast== |
==Cast== |
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