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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FeistyUpper

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

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Fatma Suarez

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Philippa

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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Dana

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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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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Gareth Pontin

This truly god-awful excuse for a film really should never have been madeAs has been (quite rightfully) said before, there is not a tangible plot in sight, the acting is shoddy, the locations are laughable (the 'auditorium' in the 'remote compound' is quite clearly a conservatory - with the neighbour's house clearly in sight!!), the script is non-existent... this movie thoroughly deserves its bottom 100 position!I found this movie being sold for £1 in my local supermarket and thought it might be good for a laugh... I'm now off to demand my money back. I firmly believe that I could have done a better job making this movie myself - the acting, the direction, the writing, the cinematography (I know, what cinematography!?!?!) - I could have done them all betterAnd yes, the mummy is fat. 'Nuff said

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Steve Myers

Having sat through Legend of the Mummy 1, I thought this couldn't be any worse and I was right. It's equally terrible, though for different reasons. Once again we have a mummy on the loose, this time pursuing a group of archaeology students, and I hope they really are archaeology students, because they're certainly not actors, judging by the number of over the top and under the top performances given here. The mummy itself is marginally more horrific than in LOTM 1, though all the budget seems to have been spent on a scary face. It walks like it's advertising adult diapers and his is full. Does the story make sense? No. Some mumbo-jumbo about rain gods and bullying. Are the characters likable? No. Most are interchangeable cyphers, typical of most stalk and slash horror but not as well written. Plus points: one guy looks good in his tighty whities and the final heroine is not your typical busty blonde. But the horror (apart from the script) is generally off-screen. The mummy has a very large curved knife that is put to good use on wiping out the general population, but never gets a bloodstain on it. You hear a lot, but don't see much - perhaps something more visceral would have helped to take your mind off the tedium. A truly dreadful attempt at film-making.

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