Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy

This is a genuinely pitiful film that cannot hide behind the excuse of having no budget, I have seen student films that outclass this one and some of those were made in an afternoon.

There's this jock who is inexplicably on an archeology course. Where's he studying? Well judging by the sets he is at the prestigious university of the directors kitchen. The entire movie is filmed in some guys house and lecture halls are artfully represented by the living room. I expect the dean's office is in the crapper.

Anyway nothing much happens except an ungodly amount of trekking from one room to another. The monster is unleashed for ridiculous reasons and there's an Aztec priest who must surely win the prize for worst casting ever.

In fact the entire cast are awful, not one of them would be considered convincing enough to use on an advert so how they actually got onto a DVD that sits on my shelf I honestly don't know. Some of them say their lines and then look directly at the camera because that's where the guy holding the cue cards is stood.

It really is a pitiful effort. One of the worst films I've ever seen and just so totally pointless in every way. It's also pretty obvious they don't know who Bram Stoker is.

I watched this movie for free with every intention of getting a good laugh from a really bad movie, and that is exactly what I got. So, in the strictest sense, I was not disappointed. However, if I had paid money expecting to be entertained, or perhaps even frightened, I would be unconsolably livid. This movie is not only bad, it's as though a group of high school kids who knew absolutely nothing about filmmaking got together, scribbled down a script on a desk during class, got a camera and let it run, then shrugged their shoulders as their friends play acted in front of some lights. I am not kidding. My entire analogy is there on the screen, no joke. A friend of mine actually worked for the guy who produced this movie (names withheld) and informed me that this thing was shot in only four days. Sounds about right. But let's just say hypothetically, if you've got 96 hours (i.e. four days) to make a movie, AND you're getting paid for it, then why not at least try?

Who thought of this one? Granted, this direct to video movie does have a cool looking mummy but other than that, this movie is really BAD! The script is laughable to say the least. The acting is atrocious and there are maybe 6 people in the whole entire film, including extras (this is on a college campus?). There is no good gore or violence at all even though the body count is high it is all aftermath. Not even some T and A to tide us over. Just a poorly made movie with lots of idiotic 20 year old's swearing and overacting. Rent the Boris Karloff version

A group of archeology students are stalked by a resurrected Aztec

mummy.

Well, just when I thought I wouldn't see a movie as bad as

Crocodile this year along comes this piece of work. What's the

worst part? The acting. Wasn't even up to high school theatre

level. Then there's the plot which has been seen a million times

before (and probably will be a million times hence). There's not

even any sex or decent scares to provide and lowest common

denominator entertainment.

DO NOT RENT THIS MOVIE!!!

A colleague of mine got this for free with his DVD player. Even at that price, this movie represents a shockingly bad deal.

It features tremendous acting skills - especially on the part of the female professor character, who seems to believe acting involves twitching your eyebrows in a deranged manner and nothing more.

It also boasts outstanding sets. Actually it has just the one set, which I suspect is the producer's house, but is supposed to be a university. The room in which they put the mummy on display has a fireplace and a sofa in it, for crap's sake! I won't even go into the lacklustre special effects, because awful as they may be, they outshine every other aspect of the production.

I cannot believe that this excrescence has lost its place in the Bottom 100. Get voting "1", people!