American Mummy

It's cheesy bad. Everyone once in a while my friends and I get together for a night of marathon cheesy bad movies and this one made the cut. Do not expect a great script or even decent acting. However, there is plenty of gore and it's a classic for perpetual bad decisions. If you are looking for something that'll make you jump when you least expect it, this one can deliver at a couple of spots. There are some attempts at comedy. I found myself wondering if they had fun making this movie or did they expect it to become a cult classic that would eventually launch them into convention fame? I doubt if we'll watch it again at a later date. This has the feel of a one-time viewing experience.

Even fast forwarding at 4x, this moving is really bad and I have seen a lot of crappy horror movies. The acting is terrible, there isn't enough naked to distract you and there is no script to speak of. The only saving grace is characters get killed fairly quickly so you don't have to suffer through their bad acting all that long.

Oh, my! Where do I start? This movie reminded me of a bunch of middle schoolers trying to make a movie. The acting was horrible. There was so much unnecessary nudity, but not enough to make up for the poor visual effects, lack of talented actors, or ridiculous plotline. It was a total waste of time.

Want a mummy movie with literally nothing to do with the mummy, then this is the movie for you! the film moves at a tediously slow pace and the video and sound quality feel like a documentary, one that happened to be filmed on a budget of next to nothing. The acting is terrible, the script is terrible and the sound effects are laughably bad and at time I had to wonder if this was a horror comedy.

The one saving grace is that the special effects involving the gore and zombie violence (Yes, there is more things to do with zombies than mummies)is pretty good.

This film begins with a man by the name of "Philip" (Jack Grimmett) and two women "Carmen" (Esther Canata) and "Becca" (Jennifer June Ross) looking for an Aztec burial site in the desert of New Mexico. By chance, Philip sees an opening on the side of a hill and upon further investigation is brutally killed in the process. Hearing his screams, Becca runs to the cave and sees Philip's body lying next to what appears to be an ancient Aztec sarcophagus. The scene then shifts to 12 weeks later with both Carmen and Becca being joined by a research team led by "Professor Jensen" (Suziey Block) from Monroe University to study this mysterious object. What Professor Jensen doesn't realize, however, is that Carmen has advanced knowledge of what lies within the sarcophagus and is intent upon resurrecting it regardless of the price it will later demand. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this film started off reasonably well but after the first 20 minutes or so the lack of resources began to show and things went downhill rather quickly after that. Some scenes-especially those featuring "Jose" (Rudy Marquez) dancing around in cheap Aztec garb-were extremely amateurish. Likewise, the ending was equally ridiculous as well. That being said, I don't consider this to be a good movie by any means and I have rated it accordingly.