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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MartinHafer

This is a really stupid film. And, I normally wouldn't do this, but am going so far as to say that the writers (if there really were any) were also really dim--how else could you explain this dopey film?! The film abounds with obnoxiously unlikable college students who manage to make me root for the murderous mummy--simply so they will shut up! Often, these god-awful characters are much, much more annoying than Screech and the gang from "Saved By The Bell"--and that show was marketed mostly to junior high and some high school kids! In other words, while we might expect the "SBTB" cast to be dumb because they are playing teens, what is the excuse for these people for talking and acting like 12 year-olds?! Can the writing be any more broad and amateurish? Possibly...but it would take a lot of effort. In fact, I assume this was written by a 12 year-old who was trying desperately to seem adult and cool by adding cursing (not even good cursing--just crude language that makes the characters seem to have IQs of about 12) and a bit of sex...yet miserably fails.As for the plot, it involves an Aztec mummy who looks nothing like an Aztec mummy and an idiot idea of an idiot student actually turning out to be an Aztec priest...in 1999! And one-by-one, he has his newly revived mummy off these losers. I say more power to 'em--kill these horrible characters in this stinkeroo film! And, while you are at it, think about taking out the writers as well! Cheap, not particularly entertaining and dumb...it's the trifecta of bad film making.

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soniaandree

Gosh! I wished I had never seen that movie, and that's the first time ever I feel this way towards a bad movie. The acting was non-existent, there was no special effects to speak of, and, the director being an ex-porn film director, I would have expected a minimum more fun as teenage actors go. My bad. The whole "it's so bad, it's good" doesn't even come into the equation. I suspect the director should also be sued for misleading its public by claiming that:a) it's something to do with Bram Stoker b) that this title doesn't have anything to do with the more successful "The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns", with Rachel Weisz et al.Definitely wasted time and money. I wouldn't even want it for free. Sigh. I long for my favourite Hammer horror flicks now. At least the special effects were more advanced at the time.

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Phil Thompson

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!

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