"but imagine a steampunk world in which the crack that was once found every several generations is a dirigible ride away, so that tourists can gawk and soothsayers can set up shop, and courts of law routinely consult the dead to determine what they meant by their wills."
Sounds like a Dio de los Muertos in reverse. Instead of the dead coming to pay you a visit, you go and hassle them. The living haunting the dead!
It reminds me of an idea I had back when I learned that the Great Pyramid now has chain restaurants at its base and nearby, so that you can buy and eat some KFC, McDonald's, or Pizza Hut where once the pharaohs of Egypt trod. In a horror movie that'd be the sort of desecration that would bring up a horde of reanimated Egyptian mummies to throttle everyone concerned.
Yes, but in the modern day, they can end the movie with the mummies being controlled by ancient Egyptian magic and getting put to work at the Great Pyramid's KFC and Pizza Hut to replace the employees they strangled.
"but imagine a steampunk world in which the crack that was once found every several generations is a dirigible ride away, so that tourists can gawk and soothsayers can set up shop, and courts of law routinely consult the dead to determine what they meant by their wills."
Sounds like a Dio de los Muertos in reverse. Instead of the dead coming to pay you a visit, you go and hassle them. The living haunting the dead!
It reminds me of an idea I had back when I learned that the Great Pyramid now has chain restaurants at its base and nearby, so that you can buy and eat some KFC, McDonald's, or Pizza Hut where once the pharaohs of Egypt trod. In a horror movie that'd be the sort of desecration that would bring up a horde of reanimated Egyptian mummies to throttle everyone concerned.
Fast food is nothing new. The workers on the pyramids probably bought their meals.
Yes, but in the modern day, they can end the movie with the mummies being controlled by ancient Egyptian magic and getting put to work at the Great Pyramid's KFC and Pizza Hut to replace the employees they strangled.
Perfect. What better use for the magic?