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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8264907" data-attributes="member: 22779">Which would be fantastic, if we want to paint the PC's as evil, rapacious thieves and plunderers.  However, I doubt most mainstream settings would try that though.Oh please.  Even in the early 80's, you have a practically perennial Dracula movie.  Never minding animated versions, and Count Chocula.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  I'd wager that Dracula is a fair bit more ingrained in pop culture that Karloff's The Mummy.  Other than the fact that The Mummy had a mummy, I doubt most people could tell you anything about the plot of the Karloff movies.Not to be indelicate, but, that would put your wife and her friends at over 30.  Which isn't really countering my point.And when that genre is based on unbelievably racist underpinnings?  Should we just whitewash those again as well the way that was done in the 1980's?  Recycle them unchanged, introduce them and acquaint the audience with themes that quite frankly, should make people cringe?  Is that what you're suggesting?  Or, should we keep the stuff that's cool and interesting and doesn't make people want to wash their eyes out with bleach after reading it and cut out the stuff that reads like white supremicist fanfic?</blockquote>

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