Legion of the Dead (2005 Video) User Reviews

Only the Nudity of Claudia Lynx Is Worthwhile

[claudio_carvalho · 2/10 · 21 October 2007]

When an ancient Egyptian tomb is found in a North American park, a group of scientists and students of Egyptology arrive to the site to study the inscriptions. Meanwhile, the four thousand years old evil high-priestess Aneh-Tet (Claudia Lyns) awakes and seeks six offerings to revive her legion of mummies. Then she needs the blood of a virgin to bring her father back to life, become immortal and rule the world.

I bought this DVD based on the name of Bruce Boxleitner and the wonderful art of the cover of the DVD. However, the story is very disappointing, and I particularly liked two scenes: the nudity of the gorgeous and sexy Claudia Lyns, and the funny line of Sheriff Jones, when he says to his skeptical assistant: "- Just because a chicken has wings doesn't mean it can fly." My vote is two.

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Interesting...

[TalentKnown · 3/10 · 25 January 2006]

The movie itself was pretty dull, and most the acting was a little cheesy. I did think that the girl who played the lead character, Molly, was great! She gave this movie the only real depth it carried. I hope she will continue to pursue her career, and that others will see what an incredible talent she really is. As for the plot, you could drive a semi through the wholes in this movie. It was so completely unbelievable that it was hard to watch. None of the characters were written with any depth and only a truly talented actor could bring any believability to it. I think that the majority of people in this film should give up hope of ever doing anything besides cheesy C rated movies or maybe porn. Everyone except the lead actress whom I mentioned before.

Wow, I had never seen a one dollar budget movie before!

[Boba_Fett1138 · 2/10 · 14 June 2008]

Of course I already knew at advance that this movie would be a bad one but in a way the movie was even worse than I could had ever anticipated.

Real problem with this movie is how amateur like it got made. Bad directing, bad editing, and bad camera work. It also doesn't help that the movie is very cheap looking, this lets the movie look all the more weak and ridicules.

The sound also got messed up pretty bad. The one moment some of its sound effects are too loud while the other things and dialog are too soft. This is also variating and at times you can't even hear some of the characters, while the others are clearly understandable, even when they are in the same scene's at times.

Also the story is just plain ridicules. I mean, an Egyptian mummy buried somewhere in the good old USA? It's just their way of saying; we want to do a mummy movie but we don't have the money or resources to go for Egypt for it or try the recreate it somewhere else. Also the way the entire story progresses results in the fact that nothing in the story just ever works really out. It makes the movie boring and real tiresome to watch. And of course the story needs to feature a couple of teenagers in the main lead but oh well this always had been the case in these sort of genre movies since the '70's on. The movie and it's story really start to get out of control as it heads more and more toward its incredibly poorly done last 20 minutes.

The scare effects of the movie just don't work out and they try to enhance it by adding some gore but instead it works out all the more ridicules since it's just not very convincing looking. The special effects are just too lame. The movie also doesn't exactly get scary due to the fact that the mummy is a beautiful, young, half-nude, Arabic girl.

The acting in this movie is all in all not that bad, especially considering the genre but of course the actors aren't exactly helped by the movie its incredible weak and silly script. What's even the main point in the movie its story? The movie really isn't going anywhere with its story. There is mummy on the loose who kills a lot of people in an horrible way but yet no one seems to be worried about the fact that their friends getting killed. The cast mostly consists out of young unknowns with the exception perhaps of Bruce Boxleitner who is a well known in certain circles.

Well OK there are worse movies to watch out there but that doesn't make this movie a good one. The fact that the movie has such a tiresome story is the foremost reason that this movie is a completely dull one that certainly isn't recommendable, not even for the genre fans or lovers of 'bad movies'.

2/10

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How Many Mummies Do A Legion Make?

[arcadesrofocale · 1/10 · 6 July 2006]

I had high hopes for this because: 1) It was called LEGION OF THE DEAD and had box art of some ancient Egyptian tomb king and a whole army of undead troopers.

2) It had Bruce Boxleitner in.

3) Putting together 1 + 2, and armed with the knowledge that Boxleitner plays the sheriff, it implies some sort of gigantic apocalyptic battle with hordes of mummies will occur, sort of like the battles in Lord of the Rings or even Army of Darkness.

Now without giving any spoiler information away: The actual plot of the movie is nothing like the assumptions you are lead to be believe from facts 1 and 2 above and the film was therefore a severe disappointment for me. Had they re-named it, it might have been less of a let down.

However, the acting IS poor, the plot is VERY dubious (in terms of the genre; I know mummies walking around is inherently dubious, but there are ways of doing it right and this film doesn't due to inconsistencies). That being said the comedic gore and the amount of breasts are about right.

Legion of the Lousy

[ghoulieguru · 1/10 · 5 February 2006]

With the exception of the newly resurrected Full Moon movies, the Asylum distributes and produces the absolute worst horror movies on the video store shelves. The Asylum's legacy of lousiness continues with their Mummy epic, Legion of the Dead.

This movie is basically like Queen of the Damned with mummies instead of vampires and with Bruce Boxleitner and the kid from Gremlins instead of Aaliyah. This tepid tale begins when a couple of dirt bikers stumble on an ancient Egyptian burial tomb somewhere in the mountains of Los Angeles. You heard me right, this ancient Egyptian burial chamber is in the foothills of Los Angeles. Somehow those wacky Egyptians managed to make it all the way to California with a bunch of their loot and sarcophagus with a Queen Mummy in it. The Gremlins kid (can't remember his name) is an archaeologist who is summoned to the site after the two dirt bikers tell the cops about what they found.

The Gremlins guy leads a team on an expedition into the burial chamber. There's ten minutes of Indiana Jones shenanigans as our intrepid explorers make their way through into the tomb. Poisoned arrows, cryptic warnings written in hieroglyphs and trap doors abound. They make it through a winding maze of styrofoam cave walls and find a sarcophagus with an ancient Queen Mummy in it. Of course, they awaken this mummy from her slumber and it turns into an episode of Scooby Doo. The Queen Mummy reanimates a bunch of her mummy pals and they make short work of our explorers.

As far as the story goes, it doesn't get any more cookie cutter than this. It's shot on someone's camcorder, just like all the other offerings from the Asylum. The acting is cardboard. Overall, it's just a complete waste of time. My hope is that all lovers of horror movies will stop renting and buying these cheap, irritating movies from the Asylum. Maybe if they realize that they can't make a profit churning out these foul flicks, they will stop making them. I sure hope so.

A Horrible Kitsch

[omaldy_subs · 1/10 · 20 July 2006]

A real shame of a movie. Spiritless and full of clichés. What really got me angry was the inconsistency of the soldiers' ability to fight. They acted like powerless zombies when they fought the good guys, but pulled the backbone of some victims in one firm jerk! I mean, c'mon! It's the kind of movie you cannot watch even for laughs. Well, I did. And that only because I kept waiting for something to happen. It was so lame I could throw up. Even if you are a horror movies fan - trust me, this is an outrageous kitsch. It's the type of production that one does for money only, not because one has a real story or a genuinely artistic view to a story. It looks like five-year old kids playing in the backyard - although this remark may be offensive to the intellect of any five-year-old, or two-year-old for that matter! Omaldy.

The complete opposite of what a horror film should be like...

[TheLittleSongbird · 1/10 · 5 November 2012]

I have made no secret of intensely disliking most of The Asylum's movies, but there is something about their awfulness that intrigues me into watching more of their movies, also to see if they'd make a decent movie. So far there has been four of their films that are better than you'd expect, but they are still average. Which is more than I could say for Legion of the Dead, which is down there with their worst. The two leading ladies are beautiful and there is one mildly amusing line, other than it is utter drivel from start to finish. It is very poorly made, I have seen better camera work from our camcorder at home, while the scenery is tacky, the lighting dull and the special effects really fake and cheesy-looking. The music and sound effects have a tendency to drown out the dialogue and they are far too obvious, when something "scary" happens they single-handedly ruin the suspense and scare-factor these scares ought to have. The dialogue apart from one line is so corny it makes your ears cringe with embarrassment, while the story, aside from that it is very formulaic- takes far too long to get going and never gets exciting or suspenseful. The characterisations of the mummies are frustratingly inconsistent, either make them rip out body parts with one hand or make them annoyingly ineffectual, but please don't make them have both, with more emphasis on the latter. The human characters are stereotypical and are not likable in the slightest, and beautiful eye-candy unfortunately doesn't equal good acting, which is what is severely lacking in Legion of the Dead. In conclusion, the only thing really that is scary about Legion of the Dead was how truly awful it was. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Intellectually Bankrupt Fraud

[crazy_tejano · 1/10 · 11 February 2006]

I know these movies are supposed to be stupid--but they must always provide marginal entertainment. Unfortunately, this movie is worse than just its formula plot, commodity script, laughably sad production values and stupefying nature (brain cells will be lost). It is a FRAUD.

You CANNOT give Bruce Boxleitner and Gremlins-boy billing on the box as the featured actors, and have both of those characters die, complete with perhaps 20 minutes of worthless screen time for both combined. I do not give one Piece of Cr*p about the no-name actresses who become the heroes of the mentally challenged story. The marketers behind this film, and any knowingly involved in this scam should be ashamed--and they owe me money!

This movie is just awful

[david6w · 1/10 · 9 August 2005]

I really do not like being harsh but this movie is awful! I mean sometimes I find at least one good thing to say about a movie but there nothing good to be said about this one. There is a a lot of senseless action in the movie that has no flow, people die needlessly and repeatedly, there is scary music when there is no need for it, importance is placed on certain roles and then they are removed from the movie by being killed off, and the action scenes involving the lead actress is like watching a Barbie doll trying to defend herself. Especially at the end when she plants the ankh in the neck of the woman! It really looks like she does not have the strength to hold the ankh let alone drive it through someone's neck. Also let's not forget how she evades the mummies at the motel. She can play an intellect in front of a camera but someone put this actress in a class that teaches how to act out action scenes.

I usually keep a copy of all my movies but not of this one. I am deleting this one just like I deleted Gargoyles by Jim Wynorski.

Worst Movie EVER

[caderd · 1/10 · 28 October 2007]

My friend is on a quest to watch all things Bruce Boxleitner, and I, being a good friend agreed to watch this with her. Words cannot ex press how poorly this was acted, produced, edited, and written. I understand all the no name actors in it, no shame on them for taking a paying gig. But shame on Bruce for sullying his good name! The worst part was the concept...spoiler alert! that the Egyptians had a trans-Atlantic trade route...to Southern California. I am hoping the writers were forced to change the location due to production costs, but there could have been some sort of compromise that didn't involve stupidity. Bottom line: NEVER RENT THIS MOVIE OR WATCH IT ON TV!!!

Not as bad as I thought...

[blackberrybabe · 6/10 · 2 October 2005]

I figured this was gonna be a total waste of my money. After 'Bleed,' any low-budget horror film makes me cringe. But I found myself ACTUALLY watching this & wondering what was going to happen.

The acting was the best part. Everyone did a fine job w/their characters. I was partial to the character Molly for 2 reasons. One: same name. Second, I know Courtney Clonch. We worked on a couple of plays together in the late 90s back in the Quad Cities (if you're reading this--Hi Courtney!). She was the reason I rented the film in the first place. It turns out it was worth the money.

I'm not going to reveal much about it, but if you're looking for a low-budget, B/B+ film to scare yourself or your friends this Halloween, give this one a try. Who knows? You may see Clonch as a superstar one day. Wouldn't it be nice to know her early work?

THIS 'Mummy' is a "Mommy" !

[guestar57 · 5/10 · 29 January 2008]

LEGION OF THE DEAD www.theasylum.cc with Bruce Boxleitner and Zach Galligan Written & Directed by Paul Bales

…Having interviewed Paul Bales and seen this is on Theasylum Top Three DVD sellers, This critic was curious about LOTD !

When you watch the "Making Of.." it gives away some of the secrets to how production came together, Theasylum has the second best BEHIND THE SCENES after Charles Band's FULL MOON . The cast is great ,Of course Boxleitner and Galligan one expect their best, But the lead villain is a Female Mummy- Claudia Lynx and she is perfect. Rhett Giles again turns in a journeyman effort, Except as a right arm to mummy henchman.

Once you accept this is happening in US, Not Egypt then you enjoy all the mummies running around and unusual deaths.

Paul Bales (look for our interview) is still writing and producing, But could direct again.

Fairly entertaining in that so-bad-it's-good way

[gtc83 · 5/10 · 16 November 2006]

Some kids are riding dirt bikes in Southern California, and one of them falls into a hole. What's in the hole? Well, an ancient Egyptian burial chamber of course. Archaeologists are called in to investigate, and they end up awakening the spirit of the evil priestess. She uses her "legion" of mummies (at least 5 or 6 of them) to track down a virgin and bring them back for sacrifice. She also spends a great deal of time running around nude, taking a skinny-dip in a hotel pool, killing some guy for a reason I can't remember, etc.

The main character is a female archaeologist (the "star" according to the advertising is Bruce Boxleitner, but he's only in a few scenes). She's actually the high point of the movie, acting-wise. She gives a fairly descent performance, and she's certainly not bad to look at. Her plot is mostly concerned with the fact that she has to work with a guy who used to like her, but she betrayed him by sleeping with one of her professors, who she also has to work with. Will she be able to defeat the evil priestess and her "legion" of undead, while at the same time fending off advances from her professor and patching things up with the guy she likes? You'll have to tune in and see for yourself.

Overall, the action in this movie is quite silly, and if you're into so-bad-they're-good movies, this should fit the bill. It's a fairly fast paced, fun romp, though the "climax" is a bit of a letdown as it's actually a bit more dull than the lead-up to it, but oh well.

"Just because a chicken has wings doesn't mean it can fly." Slightly better than the usual low budget horror film.

[poolandrews · 4/10 · 25 February 2007]

Legion of the Dead starts as a young & attractive Egyptology student named Molly (Courtney Clonch) pulls up to an extraordinary find somewhere in California, apparently there's an Egyptian tomb that's been unearthed out in the sticks somewhere. Dr. Ari Ben-David (Rhett Giles) & Dr. Swatek (Zach Galligan) are in charge & they are both very excited, however a great evil has been awakened in the shape of the re-animated Egyptian priestess Aneh-Tet (Claudia Lynx) who needs 6 souls to bring her 6 zombie mummies back to life & take over the world with the aid of a big slimy monster thing which can only be brought into this world by a virgin sacrifice. Molly discovers whats going on & it's up to her to save the day!

Apparently shot under the cheeky title of Unravelled, written & directed by Paul Bales I thought Leigon of the Dead was an OK time waster although many may feel I'm being too generous with that description. The script obviously uses mummies & ancient Egyptian mythology presumably to try & cash-in on the huge success & popularity of Universal's two recent Mummy films with Brendan Fraser, unfortunately the budget didn't stretch to any location filming so in flash of inspiration the filmmakers thought to themselves if we can't go to Egypt Egypt will have to come to us in California! Hence the absurd notion of an ancient Egyptian tomb in the middle of rural California which isn't where the silliness stops but since Legion of the Dead is just a low budget horror film I doubt anyone involved was aiming for authenticity, if you know what I mean. I wasn't convinced about the unlikely notion that if you make a groundbreaking discovery like the one in the film the only people you bring in are young, hunky teenage students to assist you. The character's & dialogue aren't great but they suffice although what saves Legion of the Dead is some reasonable gore, the fact it's a little bit different, it has some good looking birds in it & it moves along at a fair pace. As I said it's an OK way to pass the time, just don't expect a masterpiece because this ain't it.

Director Bales does OK & keeps the annoying MTV style nonsense down to a minimum, it actually looks like a professional film which I guess I should be grateful for on it's own considering some of the low budget horror crap that's floating around out there. I wouldn't call Legion of the Dead particularly scary & the action scenes lack a certain spark although the zombie mummies are quite cool. There's some decent gore here, there's various melting faces, a ripped out heart & a couple of really cool bits where people have their spines ripped out which is novel (if you haven't played Mortal Kombat) if nothing else. There's some nudity as well if that sort of thing interests you.

I have to say I'm pretty impressed with Legion of the Dead considering the supposed $500,000 budget, it looks alright & while the special effects aren't going to win any awards they're not too bad. For what it is it's reasonably well made & the acting is OK as well although it saddens to see decent actors like Zach Galligan & Bruce Boxleitner reduced to bit-part roles in films such as this.

Legion of the Dead isn't a great film that's for sure but I found it a mildly entertaining way to pass 90 odd minutes although I wouldn't be able to argue with anyone who called it crap, not as bad as I was expecting but still far from what one might call a good film.

The Cheesy Stuff You Expect From Asylum

[gavin6942 · 4/10 · 18 June 2013]

The ancient Egyptian High-Priestess Aneh-Tet awakens from her 4000 year sleep to rule the world.

The biggest draw for this film is the appearance of horror icon Zach Galligan ("Gremlins"). Someone else wrote that the only redeeming thing about his film is the brief nudity. I guess I do not see that as a highlight... I would rather see Galligan than a random topless woman.

What is so great about this film is how they treat the ancient Egyptian language. We have to wonder, how does the college girl (or anyone besides the mummy) speak a dead language? Unlike Latin, it is not like you can learn to pronounce things by looking at the old glyphs. Likewise, I love the literal translation of hieroglyphics, even with the name "Molly". While I am not fluent in Egyptian, I am pretty sure that is not how the language works.

Dressed Up Skin-Flick

[bobwildhorror · 1/10 · 28 September 2008]

Another brain dead selection from the production company Asylum. LEGION OF THE DEAD attempts to mix mummy movie with sexploitation flick. The result, hardly a first, looks like an inferior remake of the much-maligned LIFEFORCE. This time, instead of a naked space-vampire chick that sucks the lifeforce out of entranced males, we get a naked mummy-vampire chick that sucks the lifeforce out of entranced males.

Calling this movie a rip-off would be a compliment, however. It would ignore how really bad this film is. Unconvinced? Think about this: the best feature of the movie is the bad acting.

So what are we left with? There's laughable CGI. A "legion of the dead" that amounts to a few badly made up mummies. An Egyptian tomb set that appears to have been made of cardboard (but perhaps that's how California's ancient Eyptians once constructed them). I kid you not, people. This tomb was discovered in the woods of Southern California. And don't make me start on the script. Please. I don't want to think about it in any kind of detail.

Worst of all, I saw this damn thing on the Sci-Fi Channel, so the main reason for its existence (the nudity) was edited/blurred out.

A little Bram Stoker,A little Anne Rice,A little George Romero,A little Universal Films Mummy Movies,A little bit of Thor Heyerdahl and voilà you get this movie!

[FromBookstoFilm · 5/10 · 24 December 2008]

My summary sums up my opinion. Let's begin with Bram Stoker's Jewel of the Seven Stars about a resurrected evil female mummy. A novel that has been filmed several times first in the 1960's as a TV movie,then in 1970 as Blood on the Mummy's Tomb,then in 1980 as The Awakening,then in 1986 as the Tomb and then again in 1999 as Bram Stoker's The Mummy. Then you have Anne Rice's Mummy/Vampire Akasha from the novels Queen of the Damned and Vampire Lestat filmed in 2002 with the late singer Aaliyah in the title role. Next three influences: George A. Romero in this movie you get mummies tearing out spines not flesh eating zombies. Universal Mummy films of the 1940's the sets in this movie even though the locale is about an Egyptian tomb found in California(?) are almost as good as some of the Egyptian sets in the Mummy movies of the 1940's and the film had some thrills and chills. Explorer Thor Heyerdahl who wrote the books Kon-tiki, Island Civilizations of Polynesia in 1970 with his Ra II sea vessel made of papyrus reeds like Ancient Egyptian vessels could have reached the American hemisphere in Ancient times. The idea of the Egyptian traders and a banned from Egypt evil Priestess living and dying in ancient but primitive and barbaric California could something like that have happened? Archaeologists for the past century and a half have found Egyptian artifacts hieroglyphics and statues in strange places such as Ancient Native North and Ancient Central American excavation sites as well as Australia. Pyramids have been found in places other than Egypt and Central America-Italy,the Canary Islands and believe it or not Japan. The Pharoahs had seaworthy explorers and they had a lot of help from a maritime people known as the Phoenicians who came from the Lebanon area of the Middle East. Years ago they found traces of cocaine and tobacco plants whose origins are in the North and South American continents in the stomach of an Egyptian Mummy. Another fact most continental Asians did not have hooked or Roman noses something a lot of Aztecs,Mayas and Incas did have and some of their descendants still do have if you look at the codexes and read the Spanish explorers descriptions of the physical appearances of the so-called aboriginal peoples of parts of the United States,Central and South America. Sorry to report that it sounds like some other explorers other than the Norse,Spanish,Swedish,Dutch,French and English intermixed quite frequently with the so-called Ancient Asian origin Native peoples of North,Central and South America and the nearby islands of the Caribbean. Chieftains would give away some of their women as brides or mistresses to explorers and traders. Sex knows no color when men have been denied heterosexual sex for long periods of time. Now back to the movie both the heroines and the priestess mummy villainess did well in their roles. I think the villainess was well cast she looked like she could be a real Egyptian. If I were going to cast a movie about Ancient Egypt she would definitely be in it. The Egyptians racial origins go back to two racial groups East African Black and Southern Arabian Semitic. To do an accurate movie on Egypt choose East Africans and people of Middle Eastern descent because even in Ancient times caucasoid Europeans even if they were Greek or Roman were considered a minority even though both groups had conquered Ancient Egypt during Alexander the Great and Augustus Octavian Caesar. The acting in the movie was camp for sure but it was worth watching. I wish the writer would have left had the George Romero influence.

Spineless mummy mayhem

[Chase_Witherspoon · 1/10 · 30 January 2024]

Apart from Galligan as an Egyptologist and Boxleitner as the sheriff, there's nothing much worth mentioning in this amateurish attempt at a Mummy clone from the Asylum film factory. The tone seems tongue in cheek with overt attempts at whacky humour, but the result badly misses its mark, the budget too minuscule to make a quality feature length film (might've fared better as a music video).

Clonch (as the archaeology student and heroine) and Lynx (playing a Cleopatra-esque mummy Queen) are both feisty and attractive characters, but the production undermines their dedication with shabby sets and puerile special effects. The undead mummy foot soldiers that can be creepy when on the loose outside the crypt are possibly the most effective part of the movie, until they end up as piles of rag and bones on the floor.

Tries to be hip and energetic, but the plot is feeble, relying too heavily on excessive gore for shock value (when you've seen one spinal extraction, you've seen them all) to compensate for the lower than usual production values and half-baked storyline. This one should be entombed along with undead Cleopatra and her deadites, never to be resurrected.

Legion of the Bored to Death

[ksj870 · 3/10 · 13 August 2013]

Legion of the Dead is a disappointing attempt to make a Mummy film which hits the expected plot points but delivers them in a different fashion. An admirable goal, but not one this particular film ever achieves. True, the idea of finding an Egyptian tomb in America is unique and the theory posited for this by one of the characters makes the idea slightly less far-fetched than it sounds, but it doesn't take long to realize Legion of the Dead is neither original nor effective. The promotional art suggests an army of the undead on the loose, but viewers expecting anything approaching epic proportions will be frustrated to discover the "Legion" of the film's title consists of exactly six mummies reanimated to do the bidding of the resurrected Egyptian princess who is their master. These unfortunate souls aren't very impressive monsters, being too clumsy and oafish to convey any level of menace convincingly. The revived princess manifests her sorcerous powers courtesy of some very bad special effects, and while the actress playing the part is extremely beautiful there isn't much she can do to make the character effective given the limitations of script and budget. The rest of the cast is saddled with the same issues, so while there is a lasting impression of some truly bad acting from several of the actors the fact is none of them have much of a chance considering the weakness of the production as a whole. The script is badly written, the few action scenes poorly choreographed, and the direction overall is bland and unexciting. A more intelligent screenplay might have allowed the film to overcome some of its budgetary weaknesses, but as it is most of the movie is simply below par.

Campy fun

[jennifer24601 · 7/10 · 9 August 2005]

I saw this movie with friends, and we had good fun. We didn't expect to be scared to the bone but rather wanted something that would make us laugh and give us a couple of surprising moments. This movie hit the mark.

I liked seeing Bruce Boxleitner and Zach Galligan after several years. They did a good job as did the females in the three main roles. The Egyptian woman did a good job making the language sound real. I liked having the sisters together and seeing how different they were.

I could have done without the gore. Eww. And who names a girl Kevin? I thought she was more likable than the student chick. I would have made her the central character.

But overall - it's a fun movie if you don't listen to the director's commentary.

Can't triple stamp a double stamp...

[BadNewsMets5555 · 7/10 · 10 August 2005]

I watched this movie yesterday and was quite entertained. The Mummy chick was very spooky and very sexy. I believe it was the combination of the Mummy chick's bath in the swimming pool and Carter's performance in the movie that helped me forget about low budget the movie actually was. Carter saving the "Lisa Loeb-like" chick from the spear shot from the tomb really set the tone for who was gonna be the main male character in the movie. Gremlinboy and Mr. Boxcutter may be so-so headliners but I believe Mr. Collins deserves top billing. If I had any disappointments about this movie it would be that there wasn't enough depth to the characters. Carter would benefit greatly if something more was done to expand his character. I believe this actor (Collins) has shown potential to become a household name and face in Hollywood. Congrats.

CanjoBornBlazin

She will bring death and pain

[nogodnomasters · 6/10 · 31 October 2017]

A cursed Egyptian tomb is discovered in California which I didn't grasp either. Like Jason, the mummy is reanimated during a thunderstorm. The naked mummy (Claudia Lynx) kills people and is in cahoots with the guy in the Indiana Jones hat to take over the world. Only Molly (Courtney Clonch) a grad student and her near boyfriend can save the world.

This is an Asylum film that came out about the same time as "Land of the Dead" and was banking on the confusion of title. The plot is mixed up like most Asylum films and acting is secondary. The biggest draw of the production is Iranian born model Claudia Lynx,considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, gets naked. Feel free to fast forward and pause, it's not VHS.

Guide: F-word. Nudity.

A cheesy good time

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 7/10 · 27 October 2019]

Following the discovery of an Egyptian burial chamber in the California desert, a team of scientists learns of the resurrection of a female mummy who begins a rampage of terror across the area for the blood required to raise her legions of disciples buried with her and seek the immortality she originally perished for.

As far as mummy films go, this wasn't all that bad and was surprisingly decent. One of the strongest points is that it goes against so many of the preconceived notions of what a mummy film is really about which is a nice departure. Instead of being traditionally set in Egypt, this one refreshing takes place in an unlikely setting and removes some of the more traditional trappings associated with the genre. The fact that the lead mummy isn't on-screen as the shambling pile of bandages but as a flesh-and-blood figure which is a nice change from the norm of this genre. The change of sexes doesn't mean that much, as it's a more male-centered type of story than those usually given to female-centered mummy films. Rather than having the daughter of the finder becoming possessed by the spirit of the mummy and then mayhem ensues, this one carries out as if the male is the gender, and then mayhem ensues. These little features give it a little more originality to it than most mummy films and are a more than welcome addition. That leads into the best part of the film as the mayhem carried out is nice and bloody with plenty of action here. There are some nice encounters spread around throughout as the unaware fall victim to the mummy since they're unaware of who she really is which results in the shock outcome of the situation, either in their seduction at her beauty or the sheer unexpected nature of her suddenly stealing their life-essence, all giving this plenty to like with the strong blood and gore present. There's also much to like with the rest of the action where the best is when the resurrected mummies go on a rather over-the-top killing spree at the local motel and generally cause havoc running through the guests and leading into the great sacrifice ceremony at the temple which has lots of action and chasing in the temple and with the last few survivors on the outside. These here are the film's positive points. There are still a few problems with it. Its main issue is the fact that a lot of the film's energy dissipates in the middle section where this one spends too much time trying to keep the mummy's secret hidden and trying to pass her off as something else. As the story is something you've seen before, you can figure out exactly where it's headed, especially as there's a whole lot of new twists and turns and is pretty much played out to the point where it's highlighted pretty easily. Since none of this is handled well, this waited too long to bring the mummies into the film because the underwhelming hidden agenda storyline takes up way too much of this one. The other flaw here is that the low-budget eventually catches up with it as the jumbled climactic showdown can't help but give off a feel as it ran out of money so just wrap this up as quickly as possible such is the rapid nature of wrapping it all up. It's over way to quickly to feel completed and needed to be drawn out a little more, making for what holds this one back the most.

Rated R: Nudity, Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and brief drug use.