00:00I was always attracted to Egyptian lore from when I was young.
00:03Mummies and buried secrets, I think, is a big part of that.
00:08That led me to thinking about darker, more sinister forces,
00:11different purposes for mummification that maybe we didn't know about.
00:15What was our daughter doing in a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus?
00:18The mummy is taking this legend and bringing it back to its roots.
00:26Pyramids, tombs, hieroglyphics.
00:30It expands on Egyptian mythology in such an extraordinary way.
00:34And I want the audience to experience a scary mummy that they haven't seen before.
00:40Don't worry, Grandma.
00:44To make a horror movie, it's got to have a capital H.
00:46But I felt to make this movie really sore,
00:49we needed a story that had a really strong mystery behind it.
00:52She's been missing for eight years.
00:54What happened to her dad?
00:57The child goes missing and setting it in the context of mummy mythology
01:04makes it that much scarier.
01:06One, two, three, five, stabbing your father's Carey Matthias.
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