MUMMY DEAREST UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD TAKES THE WRAPS OFF OF ITS NEW BLOCKBUSTER RIDE.(U)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: June 24, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Jerry Rice Staff Writer

The Ride of the Living Dead.

That's how Universal Studios Hollywood is describing its new Revenge of the Mummy attraction. It's appropriate since it contains a Book of the Dead, a pair of statues with their faces hacked away and a hole in the wall exposing countless flesh-eating scarab beetles - and those items are in the queue area before the actual ride begins.

The theme is inspired by two popular movies, ``The Mummy,'' a 1999 Indiana Jones-type adventure yarn starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, and its 2001 sequel, ``The Mummy ...

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