The Unwrapping is a award winning short script!
LOGLINE
Identical twin brothers attempt to carry out a heist under the guise of an ancient mummy unwrapping ceremony for an elite family celebration, however, their best laid plans spiral into a bloodbath when the mummy is accidentally brought back to life.
HISTORICAL BASIS
Mummy “unrolling” ceremonies were a major symptom of the “Egyptomania” that swept England in the 19th century. Europeans had been buying mummies since Shakespeare’s times to use them as medicine, pigment or even charms; but the Napoleonic wars and England’s colonial expansion had created a renewed interest in Egypt’s past.
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Demand was so high that the fledgling tourist industry in Egypt transported mummies from the least visited places of the country to place in their more popular ruins in order to satisfy foreign visitors.
What started as strict “for science” demonstrations blossomed into spectacle when a man by the name of Thomas Pettigrew turned science into theatrics, holding parties for his wealthy elite friends where he would unwrap a centuries old mummy for them in intimate parlor room settings.
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It is rumored that the very idea of a mummy as a vengeful monster was brought to life at one of these gatherings, as the sight of a sacred ritual reversed for the sake of science and entertainment, struck a buried chord in those present. It has also become the inspiration for our story.
