The Mummy Page #13

EVELYN:

Ahm kum Ra. Ahm kum Dei.

Evelyn continues READING THE BOOK ALOUD IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN.

INT. IMHOTEPIS CHAMBER - NIGHT

Evelyn's VOICE is OVERLAID as WE START WIDE on Imhotep's

chamber and SLOWLY PUSH IN on his sarcophagus. WE PUSH IN

over the lip of the coffin, then closer and closer towards

Imhotep's rotten, twisted head, until his putrid face fills

FRAME, --and then suddenly his crusty eyelids Pop OPEN!

Revealing EMPTY SOCKETS. --BIG SCARY MUSIC STING.

EXT. BASE CAMP - NIGHT

The Egyptologist sits bolt upright. Quickly looks around,

sees Evelyn reading the Book. He gets up and runs for her.

EGYTOLOGIST:

NO! NOOOO! YOU MUST NOT!

He skids to a stop as a strange, piercing WHINE is heard,

coming from out in the desert. O'Connell and the others all

leap to their feet. The Americans run out of their tents.

The SOUND gets LOUDER and CLOSER. And then from out of the

darkness a HUGE WALL OF LOCUSTS SWIRLS into camp and envelops

everyone. O'Connell grabs Evelyn, and with Jonathan at their

side they race for the crevice, trying to fend off the horrid

vermin as they go. Beni and the Americans run for the temple.

The Egyptologist is covered in locusts. He stares at The Book

Of The Dead, looking haunted.

EGYPTOLOGIST:

What have we done?

The campfire is SUCKED UP INTO THE AIR

INT. LABYRINTH CORRIDOR - NIGHT

O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan race down the labyrinth,

slapping at themselves and picking locusts out of their hair

JONATHAN:

Did you see that!? Grasshoppers!

Billions of grasshoppers!

O'CONNELL

That's one of the plagues, right?

The grasshopper plague!

EVELYN:

This is not a plague. It's

generational. Every so many

years the locusts of Egypt

have a population explosion

and they all take flight.

Evelyn steps forward, something SQUISHES. O'Connell lowers

his TORCH, --the entire floor is FILLED WITH SLIMY FROGS.

O'CONNELL

Okay, ....and what about frogs?

INT. LABYRINTH PASSAGEWAY - NIGHT

The Americans, Beni and the Diggers race into a passageway.

Burns is knocked down, his bifocals skitter across the

ground, they get CRUSHED in the stampede. Burns staggers to

his feet, squinting. BLURRY FIGURES vanish into the darkness,

BURNS:

Daniels! Henderson!

INT. LABYRINTH CORRIDOR - NIGHT

The ground under O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan starts to

SHAKE. Then suddenly, right in front of them, --HUNDREDS OF

CHITTERING SCARAB-BEETLES BOIL UP OUT OF THE SAND. Start

scurrying towards them. Evelyn SCREAMS. Jonathan SCREAMS.

Even O'Connell almost screams. They turn around and haul-ass.

INT. PASSAGEWAY - NIGHT

Burns staggers down a passageway, squinting, his hands out in

front of him, groping, trying not to bump into anything. Then

ten feet in front of him, a dark, blurry FIGURE steps out.

BURNS:

Daniels? .... is that you?

Burns half-blindly staggers forward. The Figure doesn't move.

BURNS:

Henderson?

Burns TRIPS, stumbles forward, towards the Figure, his hands

reach out and SINK INTO IMHOTEPIS PUTRID CHEST CAVITY. Burns

jumps like a scalded cat, pulls his hands out and looks at

them, --HIS HANDS ARE COVERED IN MOLTEN FLESH ROT. He starts

to SCREAM. A SKELETAL HAND clamps over his mouth.

LABYRINTH STAIRCASE - NIGHT

O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan race up the staircase,

just ahead of the mass of SCURRYING, CHITTERING SCARABS.

O'Connell leaps out onto a pedestal. Jonathan jumps up next

to him. Evelyn jumps up into a grotto on the other side of

the narrow stairway. The horrible herd of vicious scarabs

scurries between them, their ear-piercing CRITTERS send

shivers up Evelyn's spine. She leans back. THE WALL MOVES.

Evelyn falls backwards through an opening. O'Connell and

Jonathan watch the scarabs vanish up the staircase. Then

they look across the way. Evelyn is gone.

JONATHAN:

EVY!?

SCARAB CHAMBER - NIGHT

Evelyn sits up, shakes the sand out of her hair, fearfully

looks around. It's almost PITCH BLACK. She gets up and feels

her way along the dark walls. She rounds a corner. A shaft of

MOONLIGHT filters in through a crack in the ceiling. A MAN

stands in the middle of the room. Evelyn walks towards him.

EVELYN:

Oh thank goodness, you're one

of the Americans, aren't you?

Just as she reaches him he turns around. It's Burns. BOTH OF

HIS EYES ARE MISSING. He stares at her with vacant sockets.

Evelyn SCREAMS in horror and backs away, hyperventilating,

she bumps into something. She SCREAMS again and spins around

It's Imhotep. With two fresh EYEBALLS in his sockets.

Evelyn SCREAMS again and backs away into a wall. Her hair is

down, her face is dirty and sweaty, her blouse is ripped, her

dress is torn, she's never looked sexier. Imhotep SQUINTS.

IMHOTEP:

Anck-su-namun?

LABYRINTH STAIRCASE - NIGHT

O'Connell is feeling his way around inside the grotto

O'CONNELL

Damn-it! Must be a trap door

around here or somethin'.

And then they heat MEN SCREAMING, and suddenly, Henderson,

Daniels and one of the Diggers come running down the stairs.

HENDERSON:

RUN, YOU SONS-A-B*TCHES! RUUUUN!

O'Connell and Jonathan join them as they hear the herd of

CHITTERING scarabs coming their way. The Digger suddenly

trips and falls. O'Connell slows down, about to go back and

help him. But it's too late. The Digger SCREAMS in horror as

the herd of scarabs run over him, eating straight through

him, leaving behind the Digger's half eaten skeleton. Daniels

Henderson and Jonathan react in horror. O'Connell's already

running, races right past them. The others turn and haul-ass.

SCARAB CHAMBER - NIGHT

Imhotep steps forward, --the sand around him seems to

MAGNETIZE, swirling and dancing around his flaking skeletal

legs. Evelyn starts backing away, horrified, looks at Burns

EVELYN:

Help me, ...please, ...help me.

Burns opens his mouth, but can only GURGLE and MOAN because

HIS TONGUE IS MISSING. Imhotep grabs him, throws him to the

ground and sets his skeletal foot on Burns' chest, like a big

game hunter standing on his kill. Imhotep then parts his

fetid lips, --A FRESH TONGUE FLAPS BETWEEN HIS ROTTED TEETH.

IMHOTEP:

Kadeesh pharos Anck-su-namun!

Evelyn shivers in fear. Suddenly, O'Connell comes flying

around the corner and runs right up to her.

O'CONNELL

Would you quit playin, around!

Let's get outta here already!

O'Connell sees the look in her eyes and turns around, --at

the sight of Imhotep, O'Connell jumps back in fright.

O'CONNELL

WHOA!

O'Connell and Evelyn start backing away down the wall.

Imhotep glides sideways with them, like a tiger cornering his

prey, the sand around him SWIRLS and DANCES. Burns starts to

crawl away, whimpering as he goes. Imhotep suddenly stops and

UNHINGES his skeletal jaw, his skinless mouth stretches to an

inhuman size, and he lets out a horrific, primordial SHRIEK.

IMHOTEP:

ANCK-SU-NAMUUUUUN!!!!

Evelyn SCREAMS. O'Connell shudders, then, embarrassed by his

fear, he opens his own mouth and ROARS right back at him--

O'CONNELL

Ahhhhhhhh!!

Then BLASTS him with the elephant gun, --BLAM! Through the

SMOKE AND FLAMMAGE we see Imhotep blown off his feet, his

ribcage half torn away. O'Connell grabs Evelyn and runs.

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