Show r ridd 4 44 Top Five Movie where they came fromi from L M f f 0 Christian Leikam Opinion Writer Zombies Zombies are cool Like r f zombies vampires are a abig abig abig big part of our pop culture in 2009 In fact famous monsters have always held their own place in pop culture even before films portrayed them But just like Oprah or The Rolling Stones our favorite monsters had humble beginnings Here are the top five movie monsters and their confusing origins Number Five Mummies The only thing on this list that undeniably exists is the mummy However horror movies about mummies are not abo about i the mummy itself they are about the curse it supposedly carries There is a lot of speculation about where The Mummy's Mummy So Curse first came from The idea of a mummy's curse first caught the attention of the world when King tomb was discovered in n 1922 Of the 26 people who were present at the opening of King Tut's tomb six would die in the next decade Whether six people dying in a ten year period is curse is up to you Among those Lord the thee e expedition sponsor who was battling a weak immune system died six weeks later of blood poisoning according to National Geographic Newspapers sensationalized the story claiming it was the curse The 1932 movie The Mummy Jummy was the first of many mummy movies mOVIes to feature archaeologists dying horrible deaths because of a vengeful dead king The Brendan Fraser movies were remakes of this film Number Four Werewolves Werewolves are typically normal people who turn into murderous monsters that resemble wolves during the full moon Myths of werewolves are thought to have originated from stories of extremely hungry wolves digging up graves in desperate attempts to find food As gross as that thatis is Twilight fans can thank that disturbing concept for inspiring Jacob the Werewolf Number Three Dracula Dracula also has hasa a notorious origin Vlad the a Transylvanian nobleman from the 15 h century is said to be what inspired Bram Stoker to create the character of Dracula Stories of VI Vlad ad arent aren't unlike those of Dracula When enemies tried to attack Vlad they were greeted by a forest of prisoners who had been impaled on stakes Rumors of Vlad actually drinking the blood of his enemies also circulated at the time If Twilight had been truer to the classic idea of a vampire it would probably have a different fan base Number Two vo Frankenstein's Monster In Mary Shelleys Shelley's Frankenstein a monster made of several dead bodies is brought to life using electricity It has been speculated that Shelley was inspired to write her macabre classic by a disturbing demonstration put on by Italian physicist Giovanni Aldini AIdini Aldini AIdini often experimented with the effects of electricity on dead subjects For one demonstration Aldini AIdini used the corpse of recently executed murderer George Forster In front of an audience Aldini AIdini applied electricity to Forster's corpse The corpses corpse's eyes opened its arm ann raised and the body generally seemed to have come back to life As The London Times wrote about the spectacle It appeared as s if the wretched man was on the eve of being restored to life Number One Zombies Its It's pretty well known that zombies originated from African and Caribbean belief systems namely Voodoo The original concept of ofa a zombie greatly differs from the zombies that fill our culture According to I the book Monsters Who Who's So Who zombies are recently deceased humans who are brought back to serve serve a master with a powerful mind So no decaying flesh no biting and noaim noaim noaim no aim for the he head d. d Just free labor with no arguments One example is that of Narcisse a Haitian man who claims to have been in inthe inthe inthe the early sixties According to Narcisses Narcisse's story he w was s drugged buried alive and then dug up and kept in a drug induced drug induced zombie state When the sorcerer who had been drugging and using Narcisse died Narcis s left the sugar sugar plantation hed he'd been working on or not remembering the pas past couple years Whether the story is true or just t another myth is open to speculation 1 a |