The Mummy (12A)

The screenings of The Mummy will be relaxed for autistic people, learning-disabled people, and/or those with access requirements in association with Beacon Films.

The Mummy is back, celebrating its 25th Anniversary fully restored in 4K. The film follows adventurer Rick O’Connell as he travels to Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead, with librarian Evelyn Carnahan and her older brother Jonathan, where they accidentally awaken Imhotep, a cursed high priest with supernatural powers.

‘The Mummy is cheerful, good-natured and entertaining’ – Guardian

‘Fresh score. It’s all here: ancient curses, an embalmed high priest, two rival parties searching for archaeological treasure, and dashing legionnaire Brendan Fraser romancing prim librarian Rachel Weisz.’ – Radio Times

‘Loved by audiences, Universal’s remake of its own 1930s classic is actually a lot of fun, its blend of low-rent Indiana Jones-style antics, impressive special effects and inevitably chaste romance’ – Empire

Director – Stephen Sommers

Cast – Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo

• Information about relaxed screenings

  The screening will have some adjustments to make it more comfortable for audiences who may be autistic, learning disabled, and/or those with access requirements. Anyone is welcome to attend, so long as you are respectful towards audiences with a range of access requirements, including people who may need to make a bit of noise or movement during a film.

  During this relaxed screening:

  • There will be no ads or trailers
  • The lighting will be turned up a bit
  • The sound will be turned down a bit
  • There is a chill-out space available if you need to take a break
  • You are able to make noise or movement during the screening if you need to
  • The screening will not be full of people – there will be plenty of space in the cinema
  • There will be friendly staff or volunteers on hand to help with anything you might need
• Seating Accessibility Information

  Cinema

  Seat size

  Seats in the Cinema are 45cm (172/3“) wide and 46cm (18“) deep, are 40cm (152/3“) from the floor, and have 12cm (42/3“) between seats.

  Armrests

  Seats in the Cinema have armrests that do not fold away, and cannot be completely removed.

  Legroom

  Seats in the cinema have 30cm (112/3”) of legroom in front of seats, with additional legroom on row A and seats B1-B4 and B11-B14.

  Further information

  If you have any questions about accessibility our Box Office team are always happy to help and can be contacted on 01642 525199 or by emailing [email protected] - you can also tell us about your access requirements when prompted to do so during the online booking process.

• BBFC rating information (may contain spoilers)

  Violence

  There are often prolonged fight scenes and battle scenes in which people are shot, slashed, stabbed and set on fire. However, there is limited detail, and some of these scenes are accompanied by visual and verbal comedy. It is implied that characters’ tongues are cut out prior to mummification. However, although there is brief establishing sight of a person’s tongue gripped by forceps, there is no detailed sight of tongue extraction. A mummy’s arm is sliced off, and there is brief sight of blood on its shoulder stump. In one scene, a character is hanged on the orders of a prison warden. However, another character successfully intervenes by bargaining for the hanging man’s life and he is, accordingly, rapidly cut down from the rope and freed.

  Threat and horror

  Scarab beetles burrow under characters’ skin. In one scene, a character who is host to a beetle inside his body runs head-first into a wall and dies. In another scene, a person saves a character’s life by bloodlessly cutting a beetle from his arm in masked and undetailed fashion. A person is mummified and buried alive in a coffin filled with scarab beetles. A revived mummy stalks, chases and terrorises people. A plague of locusts flies out of a mummy’s mouth. There are brief jump scares.

  Language

  Moderate bad language (‘son of a bitch’) occurs, as well as milder terms (‘balls’, ‘bloody’, ‘bugger’, ‘ass’, ‘bastard’, ‘God’, ‘Jesus’, ‘hell’, ‘damn’).

  Sex

  A character briefly wears a revealing costume which shows part of her buttocks. Mild verbal sex references include reference to a Pharaoh’s mistress, and speculation that a person got ‘frisky’.

  Discrimination

  A character makes a brief unwanted verbal advance to a woman before he squeezes her thigh. However, she immediately challenges this inappropriate behaviour and also physically rebuffs him. A negatively presented character makes a derogatory sexist comment about women. A person briefly forces a kiss on a woman. Sexism and sexist behaviour if not condoned by the work as a whole.

  Injury detail

  Fantastical scenes feature decomposed corpses, including a mummy in various states of decomposition before it resumes human form. There is brief sight of a character’s eyeless sockets with blood smears on his face and around his mouth after his tongue has been removed. In one scene, pressurised salt sprays out from a crack in a rock face and causes boils to briefly appear on characters’ faces. In another scene, water turns to blood.

  Suicide and self-harm

  A person takes her own life in brief and undetailed fashion.