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You might actually get into this grade-z cannibal mummy movie. I know I did. The plot concerns the desecration of a centuries-old tomb, with the standard curse on it (an obligatory pre-credit sequence establishes that anybody who desecrates the tomb will be folded, spindled, and mutilated). The moron who unearths the tomb centuries later allows an equally moronic crew of fashion models and photographers to conduct a photo shoot amid the ruins, despite the fact that a priceless collection of spray-painted flowerpots and dollar-store statues is reportedly stashed somewhere in the tomb's two or three corridors. OK, there wasn't much of a budget.

So guess what? There is a mummy that comes back to life, but more importantly the mummy brings with him a whole bunch of zombies in rotting leisure suits (not very fashionable at all, really). They don't really do anything for a while except hide in the shadows and stare at people, but they do manage to kill off one or two dumb bunnies, like in one outrageously stupid set piece that takes place in an oasis. Yeah...these two models leave camp and ride their horses to the oasis to do a little skinny dipping, then one of them gets out of the water and discovers that the horses have bolted. So what does she do? Heads back to camp on her own, leaving the other one behind. Enter mummy and cohorts, stage left.

A lot of inspiration is drawn from Fulci's "Zombi 2", particularly one sequence involving a zombie attack during a wedding party. The groom unveils the room where his bride is preparing herself, only to discover mummy zombies eating her corpse, just like Mrs. Menard in "Zombi 2". Some of the makeup even resembles that film, only Fulci obviously had a lot more to work with than this director did.

The attack of these mummy-zombies has to be seen to be believed, especially the climactic village raid following the wedding party. I don't know how many of these undead assailants there are supposed to be, since they only really show about four or five of them on screen at the same time, but they are pretty nimble for being zombies and all. They are able to pluck people out of moving vehicles, chase running people down, and more importantly, they are able to strangle their victims in mere seconds. Oh yeah, they are able to make flesh rot with just a single touch, too, a concept that gains some points for originality. Watch for the two zombies who fight over the dead bride's severed forearm, proving that social problems continue on after death.

Farouk (Frank) Agrama's Dawn of the Mummy (1981) tells the traditional story of an old mummy's grave being violated by greedy present day scientists and some other people as they're after a huge gold treasure that was left for the mummy as he was supposed to enter the beyond after his death. The film opens with the embalming (greetings to Poland!) scene which shows how they removed the intestines and left the dead one to rest forever. Then we jump to the present day Egypt in which a fashion photographer group is planning to take pictures for three days, as well as a group of men who are only after the gold. Of course they soon go to the tomb and mess with the mummies waking the "protagonist mummy" and his guards up resulting some vengeful carnage.

The film has not plenty of interesting cinematic elements or merits like photography (some nice angles, though) or atmosphere and it concentrates mostly on the gore. The film ends in a hilarious gore carnage finale as the present day Egyptians and foreigners that caused it all learn that they really should have left the mummies in peace! The end scene is surprisingly gory but also in a cheesy way as can be expected. Still it is far from the kind of film that could be shown for the "unexperienced" with plenty of scenes of gut munching, flesh ripping and the usual meat cleaver to the head ultra gore found in these films from the seventies and eighties. The zombified mummies themselves are pretty gruesome and look convincing, and really angry.

The film looks otherwise pretty believable as it was shot in Egypt for real. There are no stages or other artificial deserts but the real one with many pyramids and beautiful locations in real Egypt. There is, however, one thing that really irritates me in this film and it is how everyone screams so much and just seems to be unable to stop it once something horrible happens. I don't know is it the dubbing and so not in the screenplay but still it is the worst and the most painful thing in this film. Also some of the scenes are pretty unnecessary only prolonging the film with characters and dialogue that don't develop anything and so have no real reason to be there. Still the film manages to maintain the interest with rather good balance between the action/horror scenes and the more restful ones.

Dawn of the Mummy is a noteworthy example of the B level gore cinema of the early eighties with beautiful locations, some quite creepy and effective scenes and monsters, a universal theme about man's greediness and of course the "key thing", the graphic horror. A film like this could be so much more painful to watch and so Agrama's effort will have its place in the book of the no-less-than-mediocre zombie/mummy horrors of the golden days of the genre! 5/10

O.K,i am just writing this to clear up the misinformation that the Anchor Bay DVD release is the "uncut" one.It isn't.In fact it is missing most of the gore.I have watched the true uncut version,a Greek VHS copy,a long time ago and i can still remember this film being much gorier that what Anchor Bay has released.

Let me explain that in the mid-eighties ,Greece was a paradise for every gorehound cause the arrival of VHS had brought a ton of small Greek distributors that were releasing every piece of horror "video nasty" totally uncut including movies like cannibal holocaust,cannibal ferrox,every Fulci movie and many more, "Dawn of the Mummy" included.

Anyway the movie is horrible but it has a few laughs due to the hilarious "acting" and the music is kind of neat.Other than that i was disappointed to find out that most of the gore is missing from the Anchor Bay version...

One of the worst horror movies I've ever seen. During the first few minutes everybody who didn't read the credits and rather smooched with his girlfriend would recognize this movie as Italian-made. Poor atmosphere, poor effects, and lots of talking. Despite other Italian horror movies there are no scenes of nudity, the beautiful actresses even get to take a moonlight bath clad with bikinis - maybe the director didn't want to shock the mummy with the view of naked girls? Well, as soon as the mummy awakes and goes on a rampage strangling its victims to death, its long-dead servants awake as well and go on a rampage eating people in a zombie-style manner. Now, why would they feast on their victims and the mummy wouldn't? The special effects are poor, the showdown is poor (a burning shed and a mummy that wouldn't burn...) and the acting is poor. Shy away from it, folks, as you would from an ancient Egyptian tomb! This movie gives you nightmares - but not about the mummy but about the money you wasted renting or buying it and the time you wasted watching it. Jasper P. Morgan

Cheap, badly acted, poorly made Mummy/Zombie film, that plays like the soft version of a porn film - no plot drive or narrative, inconsistent editing and a dire script with non-actors delivering the lines.

The story has American fashion models in Egypt for a fashion shoot - the location promises flimsy see-through dresses but their is little on show for the dirty mac brigade.

Climax of the film introduces the zombie theme, with the Mummy's dead followers wrecking havoc on a nearby town in revenge for the desecration of their master's tomb. These scenes manage to be reasonably effective, but overall the film is flawed and seems to have been thrown together in unequal proportions.

Another version of the same old story: people open a mummy's tomb, mummy is awakened and walks the earth to kill the annoying strangers, assisted by `an army of zombies' (backcover text). In fact this `army' consists of six extras. The first half of the movie is rather tame, wouldn't scare 6-year-old boys, but the second half surprisingly turns into a gorefest! Very, very low budget obviously, and despite the violent finale, nobody will remember it tomorrow. Worst film I have seen about Egypt so far.

Sadly, I can't agree with some of the fellow reviewers who claim that Dawn of the Mummy is one of those bad ones that are transformed to something worth to watch by the superpowers of pulp magick. First of all, the exposition of the story takes far too long, the gore level is rather low, also (just an example) we get two girls taking a swim in the middle of the night and all alone but still they wear swimsuits - every capable director of the genre knows that this is just the wrong move and it's time to sleaze ;) Anyway, compared to the real deal a la Italian style, this one looks really pale: it's not sleazy, it's not gory enough, it's not daring enough - only recommended for the mummy lover who needs desperately something new on his table.

Since HBO/Thorn EMI's domestic video release has long since been retired, the film itself has become a rarity and sought after by many a horror fan. And, I was no exception. Even when the film was in print, I still had trouble. When I was a kid, all the "cool looking" horror films I wanted to see where never available at the video store my family went to, but rather at video stores in other cities and such. This was the case with "DAWN OF THE MUMMY" and I finally secured a copy after all these years. Less than one hour later, my unknowing plight with insomnia had been cured.

First of all, I don't care what anyone says, this is NOT an Italian horror film. This common rumor is not only inaccurate but inappropriate to an established style of filmmaking. What we have here is an American and Arabian co-production, and it shows.

The pacing is absolutely horrible. After spending 40 minutes of ridiculous padding, we finally see the resurrection of an actual mummy. This particular shot is edited quite nicely and stands as one of the two interesting sequences throughout the film. The other, takes place several minutes later, when a horde of flesh hungry mummified zombies rise from the sands of the desert. And, there you have it. That's it. Back to the slo-mo carnage.

If you want blood, you've got it... Sloppy Joe style. Most fans of zombie films crave the gore sequences, and I suppose I do as well to some extent. If it is handled in the right way, it can add to the film, but if it maintains the inept "BURIAL GROUND" approach, as this film does, I soon lose interest.

All in all, I can only recommend the film for it's terrific poster artwork (which lured me to watching it in the first place), a great score and the two sequences mentioned earlier.

That's all for now.

I remember seeing the trailer on a vhs during the mid 90s. Been on my radar for so long.

Saw this finally for the first time recently but on a fast forward mode.

The other trailers which I saw in the 90s (Midnight Hour and Brothers in Arms) are still pending.

This movie is clearly inspired by Romero n Fulci n also the cannibal movies from the 80s.

It even has shades from Amando de Ossorio's Blind Dead series.

They even tried to copy Fulci's trademark eye gouging but didn't succeed.

We have a Timothy Dalton lookalike who wears a tuxedo in a desert, the guy took the resemblance very seriously.

At 57:38 pause, the rubber dummy is so detectable.

It has offscreen sex scene.

Ther is a skinny dipping scene but with bras on.

We have characters who cannot outrun a mummy who's slower than a snail.

The title of this very low budget Egypt/US co-production suggests a melding of the mummy movie with the zombie movie that was extremely popular around the time of the film's release. Dawn Of The Mummy only partially fulfills this expectation. After a gory flashback opening to ancient Egypt and a somewhat amusing scene where people stagger out of the mummy's tomb with gored-out faces {and who exactly committed this dastardly act is left unexplained,because the mummy has yet to be awoken},very little happens for nearly an hour. The dialog and acting is pretty poor and it's obvious that much of is to to pad out the running time,although there is a little bit of tension at times.

Then at last the mummy and his zombie followers are awoken and it's mayhem typical of Italian horror potboilers of the early 80s-eye gougings,flesh eating,etc,although nothing that would probably shock today's viewer. The mummy,who looks a lot like the one Christopher Lee played,seems to show up all over the place so much that one wonders if he teleports himself,and the film's geography is really screwy. Still,there is a little bit of {intentional} humour,such as somebody asking why do some clothes on a market stall possess Made In Hong Kong stickers, and the climactic bloody rampage through a village is well staged,after which the film abruptly stops,as it they ran out of film.

Director Frank Agrama doesn't show much skill and fails to make the most of some scenes,like the zombies rising out of the sand as the sun sets-just think how good some other directors of zombie movies like Lucio Fulci would have made this scene. Dawn of the Mummy is not a very good film,even on a fun trash level,and it really show how good something such as Fulci's Zombie really is. Still,there is some fun to be had....if you're patient.

This film opens in Egypt thousands of years ago. Followers of the late Pharaoh Sefirama round up villagers and bury them with the Sefirama. The priestess leading the funeral service warns that if the tomb is disturbed Sefirama and his army will rise from the dead to rule again. Millennia pass. In the present to tomb is discovered by Rick, Tariq, and Karib, a trio of tomb robbers hoping to find gold. Shortly afterwards a photographer and a group of models arrive in the area for a fashion shoot. On hearing of the tomb they decide to shoot there, the thieves act as though they have nothing to hide. Inevitably Sefirama does rise from the dead and people start dying.

This film was never going to win any awards. The story isn't all that bad but the acting is laughable. Nothing much happens in the early part of the film and the characters aren't interesting enough to care about once it does start. On the plus side I liked the somewhat unpleasant look of Sefirama and his undead followers and once they start killing people it is quite gory. The music is a distraction from the film; doesn't add to the tension and is unnecessarily loud. Overall this certainly isn't a must watch and is only likely to appeal to connoisseurs of low budget horror.

How in the world did this come into existence? The first minutes are extraordinarily overwrought, with writing, acting, and direction that defy belief and all good sense. These impressions will not change. I don't know whose decision it was that archaeologist Rick should look like Fred from 'Scooby-Doo,' and I don't know whether the fault lies more with director Frank Agrama or performer George Peck that his portrayal is astonishingly overcooked. Seeing as Agrama was also behind 1976's baffling 'Queen Kong,' maybe we have our answer. On the other hand, supporting cast members like Laila Nasr. Ibrahim Khan, Ali Gohar, and Joan Levy all illustrate skills on par with Peck's, and either Agrama wielded a force of personality that was insurmountable, or his co-writers Ronald Dobrin and Daria Price are equally to blame for a script that's mind-numbingly vapid. Every actor is ensured at least one line of wild, pronounced exclamation; characters are written with no intelligence, and the dialogue generally is blocky and unreal. Even if we accept that models might be contracted for a photo shoot in Egypt, and that they might come across a team excavating a tomb, the scene writing is all-around preposterous, and never more so when the two sets of characters meet and the models enter the tomb. With that, it's safe to say as well that the story suffers in turn, and the fun that can be extracted from 'Dawn of the mummy' is, well, not much.

Shuki Levy's music consists of themes that are solid in their root ideas, but which are often achingly repetitive and subsequently bland. At least the crew behind the scenes turned in work that's broadly commendable, if unremarkable, including filming locations, sets, and special makeup. Some effects are better than others but mostly they're pretty terrific, including blood and gore - although the way that some are employed is sometimes less than great. Meanwhile, the fundamental narrative flow comes across as scattered, kind of halfhearted, and just plain troubled. Why, there's not even much story to speak of: people enter a tomb, people start to die, cut to credits. By all means, there were serviceable ideas here, but the way they're put together is confounding. And as if all this weren't enough, this picture has one enormous obstacle that keeps it in check: the fact that 'Dawn of the mummy' isn't the only "mummy movie" ever made. The world is full of titles about ancient tombs, curses placed to protect them, and the return of the dead, especially in the context of Egypt and the Great Pyramids. Universal's 1932 classic 'The mummy,' with Boris Karloff, absolutely holds up; for modern audiences wanting more flair, Stephen Sommers' 1999 reimagined rendition is just as fantastic in its own right. And there are plenty of other similar titles, too, nevermind the unending ocean of other horror cinema that viewers can explore. So why suffer through the worst qualities of 'Dawn of the mummy' to see what we can get elsewhere?

It's not utterly rotten, but it makes a poor impression in the first place, and those faults that first greet us never go away. I won't say that this 1981 flick is entirely without value, because that's simply not true. What I will say is that whatever one might want out of it, there's sadly just not enough to help it stand particularly tall or stand out in a crowd, and ninety-three minutes ultimately rather drag - and that's maybe never more true than at the climax, which is the last part of a feature that should ever strain one's attention and enthusiasm. I appreciate the hard work that went into this, and I think everyone made a sincere effort, yet between weak writing and direction above all, and surely as well unconvincing acting, there's just all too little entertainment to be had. I'm glad for those who like 'Dawn of the mummy' more than I do, but all the plain truth of the matter is that your time is probably best spent watching something else.

I don't have much to say in this movie's favour apart from you have to see it for George Peck's astonishing performance as Rick, a kind of Z-list Indiana Jones.

This is scenery-chewing acting at its finest. Where they found this guy, I have no idea. He must have been cheap. His facial expressions and mannerisms are unbelievable. I guarantee you have never seen a performance like this.

The story is pretty standard: grave robbers make the mistake of trying to rob ancient Egyptian mummy's tomb and live to regret it.

The end gore effects are not half bad but it's not that you will be amazed at: it's George Peck.

I've watched 2 DVD versions of this, first one was Anchor bay UK's version, that I've now lost god knows where (maybe I broke or sold it, can't remember, it was years back now) and the Macady's version, which I think is open matte. Correct if I'm wrong.

But get to the point. The movie is quite awful (well, not as awful as many Bruno Mattei stuff, but we're getting pretty close to that. There's some grave-robbers, who violate the sacred tomb of (what-ever the name was) and gets curse upon them. Also there's annoying filming group, pretty much lack of nudity, they didn't offer much to this already crappy movie.

However, there's a turning point at the ending of the movie, where the ancient legend became truth, and the ending is full of nice-nice splatter (by no-one else but Maurizio Trani). So, if you can bear all the stupidness of the movie about 70 minutes, the ending is definitely worth to seen. Overall, I'll give this movie just a 3/10, reasons I mentioned above.

Some fashion models and their photographers decide to shoot a fashion spread in Egypt for the fashion magazine.At the same time,three bandits are excavating the burial site of the Mummy, who was introduced during the film's opening.The two groups cross paths and the fashion photographer decides that the Mummy's tomb would make a really great backdrop.Unbeknowst for them the place is cursed and the ten foot Mummy comes back to life,bringing an army of zombies with him.A flesh-eating rampage ensues!But before that occurs,an hour of film passes by and actors act very badly.Frank Agrama's "Dawn of the Mummy" is often regarded as the goriest mummy flick ever made.It is surely loaded with lots of gore and gut munching,especially during its last 30 minutes,so fans of splatter should be pleased.Still the action is rather dull and the film offers nothing fresh or new.However if you are a gore-hound you may give it a try.7 out of 10.

Dawn of the Mummy (1980) represents one of the only Egyptian produced films to feature Egypt's most famous character. Filmed on actual Egyptian locations, director Farouk (Frank) Agrama directs his cast of Calender models as they shoot in an ancient tomb! Man, they're just asking for it!

Sure, Dawn of the Mummy draws many of it's themes from the popular Zombie films of the 70's/80's. The title is more than a tad similar to George Romero's 1978 classic, and the film itself more than borrows from the Italian films being produced on the Zombie subject. But, I must say that I can't help but like this film. It is ludicrous, boring and unavoidably bad - but so what? It's a Mummy film!

This was one of the films to suffer cuts in the UK at that hands of Margaret Thatcher and the BBFC (hate...so...much!) and remained butchered in the UK until the good folks at Anchor Bay re-visited it with a cleaned up picture and all of the gratuitous scenes back in. Or so I thought.

Where is the gore? Where is the violence? Not here. This film is in no way worthy of it's "video nasty" trophy. In fact, I can't say this film isn't suitable for a five year old. The only gore scene I can remember is when a guy is decapitate. Yuck, I hear you say. Not really. You hear a scream and then see a Papier Mache ball roll down the sand dune.

So what is my conclusion? I like it. It's good, clean, hokey fun which you will keep going back to. Want a white knuckle video nasty? Buy Cannibal Holocaust. I really doubt that anyone from the BBFC actually watched this film during the onslaught of the video nasties in 1980 - I expect they looked at the genre; Zombie film. This is a funny film suitable for the entire family - take it for what it is!

Usual plot of an ancient Egyptian prince having his tomb broken into - this time by gold hunters AND a group of American models on a fashion shoot - and wreaking his revenge. The good points are that this was actually shot in Egypt, the sight of the Prince's zombie servants rising out of the sand is really good and there is, eventually, a fair smattering of gore. The soundtrack is pretty groovy too. Bad points are - terrible acting/dialogue, it's quite slow for it's first half & the gore is pretty cheap looking, not a patch on say Dawn of the Dead or Zombie Flesh Eaters. The film was seized by police under Section 3 in Britain during the Video Nasties era, before being passed with cuts. Now uncut. It is pretty tame by today's gore standards. No question, this is a bad movie but for those of us who enjoy an Italian gorefest then it makes fun viewing. I watched it uncut on pre cert VHS which adds to the experience.