Dawn of the Mummy

Dawn of the Mummy
by Frank Agrama

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Movie Review: file under "z" for zombie!
Summary: 4 Stars

This one takes a long time to get going, but makes up for it with lots of gore in the last half hour or so. It's actually filmed in Egypt. The story starts out in 3000 B.C. with an ancient curse being performed, then flashes forward to the present day (early 80's of course) and some tomb raiders who succumb to poison gas when they open the tomb. The titles flash, followed by a roller-skate wearing model being photographed in New York. She and some other models end up going to Egypt to be photographed among the pyramids. They stumble across a group of treasure hunters and decide to do the rest of the shoot in the actual tomb itself. The heat of the lights they use in the shoots ends up cooking the mummies back to life, and we are treated to numerous shots of bubbly black ooze squirting out of the mummified bodies. People start disappearing, but the fashion crew insists on staying to complete the photo shoot.

The mummies are initially slow-moving, decomposed and like to feast on human flesh and blood. They reminded me of Italian zombies more than your typical cinematic mummy. There is a great scene where the mummies are rising from the sand in the early morning, a literal "dawn of the mummy" I guess. Lots of unintentional laughs make the slow parts of the movie more tolerable, especially the hilarious overacting of the lead tomb raider. It's well worth the low price for anyone who can hang on until the final bloodbath.