April 29, 2007

Images from the Museo de las Momias in Guanajuato. Rather disturbing images. Some backstory. Some more backstory. More (equally disturbing) images here and here.

If mummies are your thing, you might like it here.

posted by bobboggis 17 years ago
  • AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!! MUMMY VAGINA!!! AAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!
  • "museo de las momias - guanajuato, mexico (oct/nov 2003). [NOTE: some of these images are quite gruesome (i.e., page 3). view at own risk.]" *clicks* oh god. babies. page three is baby mummies. yhbw.
  • "museo de las momias - guanajuato, mexico (oct/nov 2003). [NOTE: some of these images are quite gruesome (i.e., page 3). view at own risk.]" *clicks* oh god. babies. page three is baby mummies. yhbw.
  • twice!
  • urrrrgggghhhhh.... having a nasty little case of the heebie jeebies... cool post in a bizarrely morbid/ train wreck / "most amazing videos"/ kinda way. Thanks! (I think)
  • They look like sculptures inspired by a cross of Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch. Eerie, the husks of the living, no?
  • NSFTSDTDB.
  • They look like sculptures inspired by a cross of Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch As it is, a Peruvian pre-columbian mummy exhibition in Paris is likely to have been an influence in Munch's Scream. I posted a link about this on a past Munch thread here, but search gives me a 500 error right now. And yeah, the sight of those mummies is not for the squeamish. There were some old mexican wrestler/horror movies involving mummies that, despite the risible plots, no-budget effects and make-up, were quite scary.
  • The Guanajuato museum was the location for the classic 1970 film Santo Versus the Mummies of Guanajuato, one of the series of popular Mexican zombie wrestling musicals starring El Santo, the mystery star who always appeared in a mask and kept his real identity an impenetrable secret. Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta. In the film, wrestling skills prove unexpectedly powerless against zombies, who have to be finished off with special fire guns. The museum also features in Ray Bradbury’s story The Next in Line.
  • Not seen, nor heard of, that film, but I shall now hunt it down like a mysterious wrestler hunting a zombie.
  • It may help to know that in versions dubbed into English, El Santo is usually renamed 'Samson' (in case he sounded like some kind of bloody Mexican, I suppose).
  • Those mummies are making me hot.
  • I don't think that's what MILF stands for, kitfisto.