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Reviewed by Wilbur-10 3 / 10

Despite the title, this is no Romero clone and the fashion models show disappointingly little flesh.

Cheap, badly acted, poorly made Mummy/Zombie film, that plays like the soft version of a porn film - no plot drive or narrative, inconsistent editing and a dire script with non-actors delivering the lines.The story has American fashion models in Egypt for a fashion shoot - the location promises flimsy see-through dresses but their is little on show for the dirty mac brigade.Climax of the film introduces the zombie theme, with the Mummy's dead followers wrecking havoc on a nearby town in revenge for the desecration of their master's tomb. These scenes manage to be reasonably effective, but overall the film is flawed and seems to have been thrown together in unequal proportions.

Reviewed by GroovyDoom 5 / 10

Disco Mummy

You might actually get into this grade-z cannibal mummy movie. I know I did. The plot concerns the desecration of a centuries-old tomb, with the standard curse on it (an obligatory pre-credit sequence establishes that anybody who desecrates the tomb will be folded, spindled, and mutilated). The moron who unearths the tomb centuries later allows an equally moronic crew of fashion models and photographers to conduct a photo shoot amid the ruins, despite the fact that a priceless collection of spray-painted flowerpots and dollar-store statues is reportedly stashed somewhere in the tomb's two or three corridors. OK, there wasn't much of a budget.So guess what? There is a mummy that comes back to life, but more importantly the mummy brings with him a whole bunch of zombies in rotting leisure suits (not very fashionable at all, really). They don't really do anything for a while except hide in the shadows and stare at people, but they do manage to kill off one or two dumb bunnies, like in one outrageously stupid set piece that takes place in an oasis. Yeah...these two models leave camp and ride their horses to the oasis to do a little skinny dipping, then one of them gets out of the water and discovers that the horses have bolted. So what does she do? Heads back to camp on her own, leaving the other one behind. Enter mummy and cohorts, stage left.A lot of inspiration is drawn from Fulci's "Zombi 2", particularly one sequence involving a zombie attack during a wedding party. The groom unveils the room where his bride is preparing herself, only to discover mummy zombies eating her corpse, just like Mrs. Menard in "Zombi 2". Some of the makeup even resembles that film, only Fulci obviously had a lot more to work with than this director did.The attack of these mummy-zombies has to be seen to be believed, especially the climactic village raid following the wedding party. I don't know how many of these undead assailants there are supposed to be, since they only really show about four or five of them on screen at the same time, but they are pretty nimble for being zombies and all. They are able to pluck people out of moving vehicles, chase running people down, and more importantly, they are able to strangle their victims in mere seconds. Oh yeah, they are able to make flesh rot with just a single touch, too, a concept that gains some points for originality. Watch for the two zombies who fight over the dead bride's severed forearm, proving that social problems continue on after death.

Reviewed by Bogey Man 5 / 10

Ultra gory mummy/zombies from the golden days of gut munching cinema

Farouk (Frank) Agrama's Dawn of the Mummy (1981) tells the traditional story of an old mummy's grave being violated by greedy present day scientists and some other people as they're after a huge gold treasure that was left for the mummy as he was supposed to enter the beyond after his death. The film opens with the embalming (greetings to Poland!) scene which shows how they removed the intestines and left the dead one to rest forever. Then we jump to the present day Egypt in which a fashion photographer group is planning to take pictures for three days, as well as a group of men who are only after the gold. Of course they soon go to the tomb and mess with the mummies waking the "protagonist mummy" and his guards up resulting some vengeful carnage. The film has not plenty of interesting cinematic elements or merits like photography (some nice angles, though) or atmosphere and it concentrates mostly on the gore. The film ends in a hilarious gore carnage finale as the present day Egyptians and foreigners that caused it all learn that they really should have left the mummies in peace! The end scene is surprisingly gory but also in a cheesy way as can be expected. Still it is far from the kind of film that could be shown for the "unexperienced" with plenty of scenes of gut munching, flesh ripping and the usual meat cleaver to the head ultra gore found in these films from the seventies and eighties. The zombified mummies themselves are pretty gruesome and look convincing, and really angry.The film looks otherwise pretty believable as it was shot in Egypt for real. There are no stages or other artificial deserts but the real one with many pyramids and beautiful locations in real Egypt. There is, however, one thing that really irritates me in this film and it is how everyone screams so much and just seems to be unable to stop it once something horrible happens. I don't know is it the dubbing and so not in the screenplay but still it is the worst and the most painful thing in this film. Also some of the scenes are pretty unnecessary only prolonging the film with characters and dialogue that don't develop anything and so have no real reason to be there. Still the film manages to maintain the interest with rather good balance between the action/horror scenes and the more restful ones.Dawn of the Mummy is a noteworthy example of the B level gore cinema of the early eighties with beautiful locations, some quite creepy and effective scenes and monsters, a universal theme about man's greediness and of course the "key thing", the graphic horror. A film like this could be so much more painful to watch and so Agrama's effort will have its place in the book of the no-less-than-mediocre zombie/mummy horrors of the golden days of the genre! 5/10

Dawn of the Mummy

1981

Horror

Dawn of the Mummy

1981

Horror

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Despite the title, this is no Romero clone and the fashion models show disappointingly little flesh.

Disco Mummy

Ultra gory mummy/zombies from the golden days of gut munching cinema

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