Mummies to play at Clay Center’s ElectricSky Theater

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs opens Saturday at Charleston, West Virginia’s ElectricSky Theater at the Clay Center. The Charleston Gazette offers this preview:

Just as a dent is starting to form in that bucket of leftover Halloween candy you have at home, the Clay Center delivers one extra treat with its new ElectricSky attraction, “Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs.”

Opening Saturday, the film follows the efforts of Egyptologists Dr. Bob Brier and Dr. Zahi Hawa and DNA scientist Angelique Corthals as they look for genetic clues in the past.

As a popular subject, Egyptian mummies have been picked over for generations and slowly gone from serious academic study to movie monsters. Brendan Fraser probably built a couple of houses with the money he made fighting them on the big screen.

“Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs” shows there is still a lot left to learn.

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