The Mummy

PROLOGUE — THE CURSE OF A KING

Egypt, c. 1300 BCE: The tenth plague has fallen.

Pharaoh Rameses cradles the corpse of his firstborn son, the child’s body already stiffening, lips blackened by divine judgment. The screams of Egypt echo through the palace—firstborns dead in every household. Moses has led the Hebrews to freedom, and the Red Sea has swallowed Rameses’ army whole.

Broken by grief and humiliation, Rameses rejects the gods. He gathers a small sect of forbidden priests and steals his son’s body under cover of night, journeying to Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead. There, beneath statues of Anubis, they perform a blasphemous resurrection ritual pulled from fractured passages of the Book of the Dead—not to summon life, but to force it.

The ritual fails. The air thickens. The child’s corpse twitches once—then stills. Something unseen screams.

Rameses and the priests are seized by the last surviving guards of Egypt. Declared traitors to the gods and the natural order, they are sentenced to a punishment reserved for eternal abominations: mummification alive. As linen wraps tighten around Rameses’ still-breathing body, the priests are sealed beside him. The guards decree that if Rameses ever walks the earth again, the Ten Plagues will return.

Rameses is entombed alive beneath a towering statue of Anubis, his sarcophagus bound with sacred wards. His guards remain behind as eternal watchers.

Darkness closes in.

ACT I — THE TOMB OPENS

Present day: At Sacramento State University, archaeology student Rachael Hawkins prepares for spring break. Intelligent, skeptical, and deeply familiar with Middle Eastern history through her late mother’s family, Rachael joins her father on an academic trip to Egypt, where a controversial new Exodus Exhibition reframes Moses as history’s greatest liberator—and Rameses as a tyrant defied by God.

In Egypt, centuries of stone finally fail.

Deep beneath the sands, the Anubis statue collapses. A lone security guard investigates the ancient chamber below and finds Rameses’ sarcophagus cracked—breathing faintly. As the guard attempts to reseal it, the mummy awakens.

Rameses does not rise cleanly. His body is incomplete—skin split, organs shifting beneath desiccated flesh. One eye burns with hatred; the other is an empty socket whispering prayers in a dead tongue. He seizes the guard, and the man begins to decay and age at once—teeth falling out, skin peeling, veins blackening. A child’s silhouette is torn screaming from the guard’s chest before both collapse lifeless.

The curse begins. From the depths of the Red Sea, drowned soldiers claw their way onto shore—lungs filled with saltwater, bones fused with coral. The Red Sea Walkers have returned.

ACT II — THE PLAGUES RETURN

Rachael and her father arrive in Cairo and check into a modest motel.

Rachael steps into the shower. The water darkens. Blood pours from the showerhead, flooding her mouth, eyes, ears. She chokes, panics, slams the faucets shut—only for the sink and toilet to erupt with the same thick, coagulating red. Across Egypt, rivers burst, pipes explode, dialysis wards fail, and entire neighborhoods drown standing upright.

Plague One: Blood.

Chaos erupts. Egypt descends into panic as Rachael encounters Richard, a haunted Egyptologist who recognizes the signs immediately. The plagues have returned. All of them.

Rameses reveals himself publicly—not as a ruler, but as a walking curse. Wherever he travels, reality decays. Insects crawl from his mouth when he speaks. The ground blackens beneath his feet. His dead priests follow him, their wrappings soaked with rot.

The plagues escalate rapidly:

• Plague Two: Frogs — Frogs erupt from walls and drains, crawl into sleeping mouths, are surgically removed from stomachs. Some split open to reveal human teeth embedded in their flesh.

• Plague Three: Lice — The itching becomes compulsive. People tear into their scalps, scratching through skin and bone, unable to stop.

• Plague Four: Flies — Swarms blot out the sun. Burned flies release spores that infect wounds. Eggs hatch in eyes and mouths. Street animals gather silently, watching.

• Plague Five: Diseased Livestock — Meat moves on shelves. Supermarkets smell like tombs. A butcher vomits linen wrappings and scarabs.

• Plague Six: Boils — Flesh erupts with lesions shaped like hieroglyphs. When lanced, they whisper prayers to Anubis. Rachael’s father develops boils around his eyes, leaving him briefly blind.

Hospitals collapse. The government falls silent.

The Red Sea Walkers roam the streets—drowned soldiers who whisper memories of suffocation as they surround their victims, never rushing, never stopping. Rachael arms herself with a handgun found in their rental car and begins fighting back—burning flies, executing Walkers—but survival only delays the inevitable.

ACT III — THREE DAYS OF DARKNESS

Plague Seven: Hail falls next.

Hailstones containing frozen organs shatter buildings. Some break open into living scarabs that burrow into flesh. Entire districts are erased.

Plague Eight: Locusts follow—devouring crops, stripping skin, spelling names in the sky. They avoid Rachael entirely.

Then the world goes black.

Plague Nine: Darkness.

Not the absence of light—but something thick, suffocating. Sound distorts. Shadows move independently. People vanish mid-sentence. In the darkness, Rachael sees the decayed silhouette of a child—Rameses’ son—begging her to let him die.

Richard discovers a hidden text beneath the ruins of his destroyed home: the Book of the Living, which reveals a forgotten passage. Rameses can be made mortal again—but only through fire and sacrifice.

Richard disappears soon after. As the third day approaches its end, Richard warns Rachael of the final plague.

Plague Ten: Death of the Firstborn.

Rachael, an only child, realizes she will die. Using a syringe, she marks herself with lamb’s blood, searing her skin with protective scars shaped like wings.

ACT IV — THE PYRAMIDS

Rachael joins a group of rebels storming the pyramids, where Rameses prepares the final ritual to resurrect his son fully.

They are ambushed by the mummified priests. Rebels are ripped apart, organs torn free. Some are captured alive and sacrificed as Rameses searches for the perfect soul. He chooses Rachael. She reaches the burial chamber alone.

Rameses reveals his truth: the plagues are not weapons—they are leakage. He is unraveling. His son exists only as hunger. Rachael has no bullets left. She draws a switchblade Richard once gave her. She carves into Rameses relentlessly, slicing linen and flesh. His body begins collapsing inward. With her final flame, she cauterizes his wounds—fire sealing what blood remains.

Rameses thanks her. He implodes into ash.

EPILOGUE — PASSOVER

The plagues reverse instantly. Blood turns to water. Insects vanish. Disease lifts. Survivors remember everything.

Rachael and her father return to America. At the airport, Rachael finds Richard alive. She is greeted by the President of Sacramento State University (Brendan Fraser cameo) who announces a fundraiser gala in her honor to raise funds for Egypt’s victims.

That night, Rachael tells her friends what happened. They believe her.

POST-CREDITS SCENE

At home, Rachael is visited by a man in a trench coat.

He introduces himself: Abraham Van Helsing.

He already knows her name. He knows what she did. He tells her she wasn’t spared. She was chosen.

There are other monsters. 
 
 
 
 The Mummy design is not mine, it is Lordwormm's.