This Mummy/Zombie Mash-Up Mostly Succeeds
A photographer and his bevy of models arrive in Egypt for a photoshoot and run into a treasure hunter who is searching for mummy gold. They all inadvertently revive the bandaged baddie who then proceeds to slaughter everyone, with the help of his equally undead minions.
The production went into the locations, the costumes and the special effects makeup sparing none for the cast, since no one acting in this film was by any means a familiar face. The story builds rather slowly to a climax that is equal parts gory and silly. But still, there is something charming about this movie and I rather enjoyed it. There is some decent and totally gratuitous gore in Dawn of the Mummy. Watch for actor George Peck, who plays the treasure-hunting Rick, as he overacts with extreme prejudice. It's rather hilarious.
If you don't take this too seriously at all, and go into it with an open mind with zero expectations, you may find yourself enjoying this little remembered horror flick from the early 80's.
The production went into the locations, the costumes and the special effects makeup sparing none for the cast, since no one acting in this film was by any means a familiar face. The story builds rather slowly to a climax that is equal parts gory and silly. But still, there is something charming about this movie and I rather enjoyed it. There is some decent and totally gratuitous gore in Dawn of the Mummy. Watch for actor George Peck, who plays the treasure-hunting Rick, as he overacts with extreme prejudice. It's rather hilarious.
If you don't take this too seriously at all, and go into it with an open mind with zero expectations, you may find yourself enjoying this little remembered horror flick from the early 80's.
- ceejayred
- 23 feb 2018