So gender-swapping in no danger of slowing down in 2017
Female mummy.. guessing we'll get female dracula and frankenstein as well?
share"The Mummy" has never been just one character. Universal started with Imhotep but then kept going with Kharis. Hammer started with their own Kharis but then went on to use a nameless mummy, a mummy named Prem, and lastly, Tera. Who was a woman. In a film based on a novel by Bram Stoker. THAT Bram Stoker.
Now, kindly shut the fµck up and let the people who actually know what they're talking about discuss this film and past Mummy films.
Warning! The Monster is loose!
Who cares what Hammer did? This is Universal we're discussing, not Hammer. So kindly shut the fµck up and let the people who actually know what they're talking about discuss this film and past Mummy films.
I'm with the OP. Gender and race-swapping has gotten out of control in Tinseltown. Personally I wouldn't mind a female Dracula, but they'd likely make her "liberated" and "empowered" instead of sexy and evil.
I have no faith in anything Hollwyood does, so I have no expectations for these Universal reboots...just witness the 2007 Wolf Man. So much squandered potential.
Okay, so let's exclude Hammer. Universal still didn't use just one Mummy, nor were they against gender-swapping, or have you forgotten that in 1940 they released The Invisible Woman? Not to mention Dracula's Daughter and, though she only appears briefly at the end, Bride of Frankenstein.
Complaining about a female Mummy is like complaining about female vampires, or female werewolves, or female ghosts or zombies. It's a type of monster, not a specific character.
Gender and race swapping characters is not new at all. What's new is that today a lot of people are fµcking morons with an absurd sense of entitlement and the inability to recognize their own double-standards.
Again, "the Mummy" was never just one character, and neither Imhotep nor Kharis has been gender swapped, so take your politically sensitive ass somewhere else and go fµck yourself in it.
Warning! The Monster is loose!
Who cares what Hammer did? This is Universal we're discussing, not Hammer. So kindly shut the fµck up and let the people who actually know what they're talking about discuss this film and past Mummy films.
I'm with the OP. Gender and race-swapping has gotten out of control in Tinseltown. Personally I wouldn't mind a female Dracula, but they'd likely make her "liberated" and "empowered" instead of sexy and evil.
I have no faith in anything Hollwyood does, so I have no expectations for these Universal reboots...just witness the 2007 Wolf Man. So much squandered potential.
You claim to know Universal's Mummy movies. ...But you just made it clear you have not seen The mummy's Curse. Guess the gender in that one. Now "Kindly shut the (expletive) Up and let the people who actually know what they're talking about discuss the film."
If you don't actually know the classics, try not to bluff.
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Ah yes, how could I forget Ananka, a key figure in the classic Mummy films (both Universal and Hammer). In my defense a lot of people forget about her.
Warning! The Monster is loose!
I'm with the OP. Gender and race-swapping has gotten out of control in Tinseltown. Personally I wouldn't mind a female Dracula, but they'd likely make her "liberated" and "empowered" instead of sexy and evil.
First you tell people if they don't know the classics they shouldn't discuss them, while you, yourself made it clear you never saw 1944's Mummy's Curse (The Mummy is a woman in that one)
And now you think female monsters all need to be sexy and sinister. I don't recall people saying "She's Hawt" when they saw The Wicked Witch of the West. Or people lusting for Christine (who is a car), or Annie Wilks (the psychopath in Misery) or any of Jessica Lange's or Kathy Bates characters in American horror story. The Alien in the Alien franchise... She's female. You want a piece a dat, big boy? The Witches in Hocus Pocus only had one "Sexy" of the three. Talky Tina, Dolly Dearest Annabelle, Jason's mother, Mother from Psycho, and Radu's mother in the Subspecies franchise... You found these to be sexy? Claudia from Interview with the vampire and Eli from Let the Right One In are decidedly NOT sexy unless there's something very, very wrong with your perceptions of sensuality.
And I have news for you. Dracula's Daughter (1932) was into girls. That's right, the black and white monster movies had heavily implied lesbianism. The same goes for Carmilla and all adaptations of Carmilla, not just Hammer's The Vampire lovers. If you were watching The Vampire Lovers today you would think she was an "Empowered Lesbian" for modern political reasons, unaware that her novel was written in the 1870s.
Your ignorance of classic horror is only matched by your sexism. Please sit down. You're embarrassing all of us.
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