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of watching this as a child. Although I'll probably find it god-awful now, it was kind-of spooky stuff as I was only seven or so. I also recall working on a Saturday-afternoon puzzle while watching it, so I wasn't really paying much attention. However, the scene with the rolling boulders has been burnt into my mind ever since. I've asked numerous people if they've seen this flick but to no avail. 12 years ago, one person mentioned that, possibly, he had seen it, but he thought it merely a dream; a fanciful piffle like wind. It's no dream, my friend. No dreaming now. Again, I haven't seen it since then, but I can't wait to find a copy and stuff it into my VCR. Anything that can stay embedded in my mind's eye for 23 years deserves a '10'.

The movie seems to have been assembled piecemeal. There are flashbacks from hypnosis sessions and journals. Sadly not much happens in them. The individual stories are filled with padding like a couple extended RV chase/out of control sequences. There are also long pointless conversations that lead nowhere and don't help move the plot along. It is painfully boring. The idea of the Indian mummies as a plot device tying every thing together just doesn't work.

I like these regionally made low budget movies but this is one that I just can't recommend. I had never heard of this one before and I can see why,

This is a weird movie about an archaeologist studying the culture of the ancient Hohokam Indians. She takes a (really fake looking) mummy out of a burial cave and brings it home to study it. Well, pretty soon she starts acting weird and talking to this mummy. And shortly thereafter her son becomes possessed by the spirit of the mummy. Even stranger events take place as the spirit then tries to destroy the woman's family. This is actually REALLY BORING, overall, and it will make you fall asleep the first couple of times you try to watch it. But if you keep at it, you may just make it to the end.

Ahah! What is the secret of the mummy? Is the mummy's spirit angry that it has been removed from the cave? You may not be able to ascertain what the spirit's motivation is, but if you like spooky shenanigans on a low-budget (and 70's hairstyles!) this will have a certain comforting appeal.

The way I have described the story is much clearer than the jumbled, boring way the film lays the story out. Can a boring movie really be fascinating? Well...somehow this one achieves that. Maybe this is a good movie at heart but executed in a rather awkward way. I don't know. What I do know is that I enjoyed it quite a bit, despite its dullness.

Fans of "Spider Baby" will be interested to know that a couple of music cues from that film are used in this one (including an instrumental version of the theme song).

Featuring one frightening and fairly well-done sequence showing possessed boulders and rocks rolling around by themselves and eventually attacking some people in a camper. Other scenes in the movie are merely spooky or quirky; but this one scene is actually pretty scary.

See this! It's weird and it's worth your time. You might even want one on your shelf.

When I rented this movie I thought I was going to see a horror-movie. However, there is little horror in this typical seventies mystery-drama directed by strange James T. Flocker. Nice-looking Matt Boston carries the picture with his fine performance and the typical strange atmosphere of Flocker's movies is all-present.

James T. Flocker's unfairly derided, entertainingly creaky creepshow is a benign, family friendly 1970s spooky-kooky fright flick that all too rarely get mentioned without pronounced sarcasm, so I'm giving it some belated, but wholly deserved B-Movie love, screw the naysayers! While the plot is looser than the evil-eyed Mummy's shroud, it has an appealing, weirdly off-center atmosphere, lending Flocker's desert-set yarn about a lad's possession by malign medicine man some additional paranormal pep! One doesn't need ESP to divine that these genteel supernatural shenanigans are manifestly not suitable for all terror-seeking tastes. In an increasingly ageist era where one all too rarely see octogenarians portrayed as proactive protagonists, the refreshingly senior cast of 'Ghosts That Still Walk' provides a welcome tonic against the teenage hegemony of contemporary Jump-scare horror. I've always admired Anne 'Airplane' Nelson, who remains as charmingly watchable as ever, with handsome Matt Boston delivering an equally credible performance!