Always interested in all things Egyptian and Mummy related I invested £1 on this film at a car boot sale recently. Boy did I waste my money ! The first thing you notice on the DVD is the bad transfer and the fuzzy picture. This is not the high resolution digital imagery we have come to expect from Hollywood productions. The film looks like a bad wedding video made by your brother with a VHS.
The movie starts in Egypt 1947, the Valley of the Sorcerer ( wherever that is ) where a young Black Egyptologist carries out a bit of tomb robbing. This is from the first scene ridiculous. How many Black Egyptologists have there been ? You could probably count them on one hand. The elite profession barely tolerated women or middle class ones like Howard Carter. Don't even try to read the hieroglyphs in the tomb. These have just been carved on the Styrofoam walls at random and are meaningless gibberish.
Then we jump forward to the Present Day, which for some reason is in Marin County California not Egypt. Elderly TV Movie actor Lloyd Bochner reads some ancient incantations from a stone tablet, he is then attacked by an unseen monster. Presumably this is the Mummy, but we don't see it in order to save money on the SFX.
Cut to two bores talking rubbish about canopic jars. These had human heads during the 18th Dynasty. Despite this, one of the 'experts' thinks the jar is 18th Dynasty. Then he inexplicably starts talking about the 3rd Dynasty. As if the the word Dynasty was somehow the link in the sentence.
I couldn't take any more, began screaming, and ejected the film from the machine at this point.
The movie starts in Egypt 1947, the Valley of the Sorcerer ( wherever that is ) where a young Black Egyptologist carries out a bit of tomb robbing. This is from the first scene ridiculous. How many Black Egyptologists have there been ? You could probably count them on one hand. The elite profession barely tolerated women or middle class ones like Howard Carter. Don't even try to read the hieroglyphs in the tomb. These have just been carved on the Styrofoam walls at random and are meaningless gibberish.
Then we jump forward to the Present Day, which for some reason is in Marin County California not Egypt. Elderly TV Movie actor Lloyd Bochner reads some ancient incantations from a stone tablet, he is then attacked by an unseen monster. Presumably this is the Mummy, but we don't see it in order to save money on the SFX.
Cut to two bores talking rubbish about canopic jars. These had human heads during the 18th Dynasty. Despite this, one of the 'experts' thinks the jar is 18th Dynasty. Then he inexplicably starts talking about the 3rd Dynasty. As if the the word Dynasty was somehow the link in the sentence.
I couldn't take any more, began screaming, and ejected the film from the machine at this point.