10 Dumbest Decisions In Fantasy Movie History

The Mummy was the 1999 re-imagining of the 1932 classic of the same name, detailing the accidental reawakening of Imhotep, an ancient cursed high priest.

Explaining Imhotep's reawakening as an accident is a little like saying someone "accidentally" died after leaping off of a cliff. Maybe death wasn't the goal, but it's hard to see how the preceding actions could have led to anything else.

The reason, of course, is that Egyptologist Evelyn Carnahan summoned him by reading from the Book of the Dead.

Now, let's just take a moment to break that down and inspect the individual parts:

Carnahan is an Egyptologist, so is presumably quite well-versed in Egyptian myths and legends, and surely had some prior knowledge of the book. Even if she didn't, though, its title alone should have been enough to discourage her from reading aloud from it after plundering it from an ancient tomb riddled with booby-traps and strange, semi-biblical curses.

The inadvertent summoning in The Mummy is one of those moments of cinema that's so painfully stupid, you actually want to look away. Still, it was better than the recent Tom Cruise Mummy movie, so there's always that.