But before the dark priest known as Imhotep can complete the task, he is seized by authorities who cut out his tongue, mummify him alive and bury him in a sarcophagus full of voracious scarabs. Flashforward 3000 years to the 1920s. Led by Indiana Jones-wannabe Rick O'Connell, the group must defeat the slowly regenerating corpse before Imhotep kills them all and resurrects his forbidden love. One character's chronic disloyalty is held in low esteem. Modest flirtation between Rick and Evelyn avoids sexual overtones or innuendoes.
Someone uses a crude expression for genitalia.
Numerous men die in gunfights or at the points of swords during flurries of mass brutality and war. Some are stabbed with knives. Others catch fire. Rick survives being hung from gallows, though his fall through the platform is disturbingly explicit. Hungry beetles burrow underneath people's skin and eat them from the inside out, or swarm over bodies like a school of piranha, leaving a mess of bone and sinew.