Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy
Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy
| 22 June 2000 (USA)
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Six young archaeology students discover the remains of an ancient Aztec mummy and accidentally unleash the fury of an evil god.

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Leofwine_draca

More poorly-made rubbish from the cheapest straight-to-video director in the world, David DeCoteau. This repulsive, boring, terminally miserable movie has not one thing to recommend it; there is no plot, no script, no budget, no effects, no acting, no suspense, just a cheesy old-fashioned piece of horror film music which plays over and over again like this was a Universal classic or something.It's not, and in fact it's about as far as you can get from the classics. Bram Stoker's name is dragged through the mud once more, the film not being even remotely related to him, the re-titling nonsensical, a desperate attempt to attract more unsuspecting viewers. Not even Louis Gossett Jr. is around to save the day this time.The movie is filmed in one room without the lights on. The unattractive, mostly teenage cast are totally awful in their roles. The mummy is overweight, a lumbering, shambling piece of ludicrousness, a waste of time and effort. The gore is brief, shoddy, there is no drama or even any exploitation. Just a great big void of a movie. Give this one a miss. This time there really is nothing more to say.

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krystinapilkington

I actually think some of these reviews provided for this movie are a tad harsh. You really get what you would expect from a low budget horror film with this one. If you're looking for a trashy horror that is full of hilarity based on the poor story line, bad choice of shooting locations and wooden acting then this is perfect. Watch with friends for an absolute laugh. If you're expecting anything decent then you definitely will be disappointed, there's no doubt about that. However, if you like to joke around regarding how bad a film can actually get this will provide an abundance of entertaining moments. I've certainly seen worse!

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vincentprice-858-50517

...i just watched this movie after having it staring me in the face every weekend for the past year and i feel i have to vent. I bought this for £2 at Tesco, i thought it'd be quite good seeing as it mentioned Bram Stoker on the cover and i was fully prepared for the "so bad it's good" type horror. That it wasn't.I admit to having watched this all the way through, it isn't anything special or innovative, i don't think it was trying to be. The set is very unbelievable, as others have mentioned it looks like it was filmed in a house, though they didn't even make much effort to make it look like a place of study. All the way through the film there is a "storm", it came across as annoying more than scary. It wasn't very tense although it tried to be, an example is when the professor searched around the museum/school/house type thing, it just dragged on for ages to no avail of a monster and even if that was the point, they made a long, boring point of it.I think it's a stretch to call this a "horror", there was little blood, no scares or jumps and the soundtrack didn't add to the atmosphere either. On the other hand the Mummy itself looked quite impressive, though i didn't understand why it had a beer belly. The characters were textbook stereotypes; the jock, the nerd, the good guy hero, the pretty girl and her virgin room mate.This plot only made a little sense, i don't understand why the Mummy had to kill everyone and then get the sacrifice, cut to the chase! maybe you wouldn't have been killed in the first place if you kept it on the down-low. I also didn't see the point in the nerd boy telling his teacher at the beginning of the movie he was going to kill everyone and wreak his deadly revenge. Wow, now we know the whole plot of the movie and we don't give a damn what happens to these characters, hey lets go waste our time on something else.I'm giving this film a generous 2 because i managed to watch it unlike some stuff i have walked out of in the cinema. Maybe that's just because i don't get too bored easily. If this film had some humour, more blood and wasn't so serious it'd be more entertaining.

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trigger_cairns

before the film even kicks off you know its gonna be awful. i managed to watch through it, and actually laughed myself stupid! but i'm pretty sure thats not what David decoteau was hoping for... where to start... the mummy itself. this is supposed to be an Aztec corpse, thousands of years old. its FAT. and slow. the effects are absolutely abysmal, and no matter how much fake lightning you through behind it, its still not scary. next up is the actors. where they came from, no-one knows. where they've gone, no-one cares. each character that face the mummy turn to the "hands-on-face-scream-lungs-out-but-dont-run" technique! the main character, norm, has the most IRRITATING habit of raising his eyebrows every time he delivers 2 words of his dialogue. the hero Dom is just soooo boring (and gets a limp for no reason in the big climax finale), the female lead Stacey seems determined to make sure her friends know shes a virgin (nt surprising when you see her!) the dialogue is also HILARIOUSLY bad. such ones that tickled me are "i'll just slip into something a little more... naked." "big spiders, wherever you are... stay there", "they need a virgin... Stacey's a virgin............. STACEY!!!!!!!" and the best of all "all our friends are dead..... but i wanna get on with my life". watch it, for comedy value. PS. large consumption of alcohol before viewing strongly recommended!

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