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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Afouotos

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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Gurlyndrobb

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

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ChampDavSlim

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

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Edwin

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

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Bezenby

I'm really forgiving when it comes to films. Really forgiving. Low budget, bad actors, poor effects – no problem. Keep me awake and I'm happy. Make an effort and I'm happy too. There is one rule I have when it comes to films: Do not, under any circumstances, fill your film with people wandering about with torches looking for each other. It's needless padding, doesn't hold any suspense, and mocks the viewer. Psycho Cop was guilty of this too, but even that film is better than this one. I'll repeat that: Psycho Cop (which is awful) is better than this film.The flimsy story is this: A group of students and a professor (her acting has to be seen to be believed) have a mummy for some reason. One of the students is the descendant of some Aztec cult and brings the mummy back to life to kill one of the other students who is a virgin. The mummy staggers about and wastes the students as they wander around in the dark looking for each other. That's the film.Boring, goreless and full of people you don't care about, this film will test even the most hardened film fan. Take this as a dire warning: Do not let curiosity get the better of you. This film is pure and utter crap.

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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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JoeB131

... would the Aztec Gods be offended? I was wondering this as the pudgy Velma from Scooby-Doo looking chick announced her hymen was still intact, I knew that she was going to be slated for some kind of sacrifice.So I'm figuring the Aztec Gods are like, "Man, that is one ugly Virgin, but we haven't had a human sacrifice in like 500 years, so I guess we have to take what we can get." This film is the cinematic equivalent to Montazuma's Revenge.The plot is that a little community museum gets a rare Aztec Mummy, but one of the students of the drunken professor is in fact the last Aztec Priest, who has been waiting to sacrifice a virgin and cause the end of the world. All he has to do is get his overweight mummy to eliminate the usual cast of characters in a movie like this, including the Expendable Black Guy(TM) the Horny Kids, and the Good guy, who is usually indestructible in a film like this.JoeB131- Watching bad movies so you don't have to.

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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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