delgadosaur,

The Mummy movies have always perplexed me. He's a strangler who moves slow and smells moldy. Unlike zombies, werewolves or Romero-style zombies, the mummy doesn't have the resonance of a great monster, he doesn't MEAN anything.

It's interesting to see all the takes on the meaning of ALIEN (he said, swinging back on topic). The sexual, the feminist, the freudian.

 “The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”
 Joseph Priestley