Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

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

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Michael_Elliott Dawn of the Mummy (1981) ** (out of 4) Rather stupid but interesting American-Egyptian-Italian co-production has a group of fashion models heading to the pyramids of Egypt for a photo shoot. Sadly for them they show up just as a curse has been released with a mummy looking to eat people. Not only that but this mummy brings some zombie servants with him.DAWN OF THE MUMMY, as the title suggests, is trying to cash-in on Romero's DAWN OF THE DEAD but it goes a step further and appears to have been really influenced by Lucio Fulci's ZOMBIE, which of course was released in Italy as a sequel to the Romero movie. This film isn't all that well made and features several flaws and boring moments but at the same time it's rather unique and has enough going for it to make it worth sitting through.What I enjoyed most about the film was the actual mummy. The actor playing the part was extremely skinny and this gives the mummy a very unique look and helps separate it from other films in the genre. I also liked the actual look of it with an almost tar-like quality. The zombies aren't quite as interesting but who's going to frown on a mummy and zombies in the same film? The gore is scattered throughout but once the finale hits we get some very good gore effects with several people bitten and chewed up.The performances really aren't anything special and there's no question that whenever the mummy isn't on the screen that the film becomes boring. Still, DAWN OF THE MUMMY has a great monster and enough gore to keep it entertaining.

Battledragon I've watched 2 DVD versions of this, first one was Anchor bay UK's version, that I've now lost god knows where (maybe I broke or sold it, can't remember, it was years back now) and the Macady's version, which I think is open matte. Correct if I'm wrong.But get to the point. The movie is quite awful (well, not as awful as many Bruno Mattei stuff, but we're getting pretty close to that. There's some grave-robbers, who violate the sacred tomb of (what-ever the name was) and gets curse upon them. Also there's annoying filming group, pretty much lack of nudity, they didn't offer much to this already crappy movie.However, there's a turning point at the ending of the movie, where the ancient legend became truth, and the ending is full of nice-nice splatter (by no-one else but Maurizio Trani). So, if you can bear all the stupidness of the movie about 70 minutes, the ending is definitely worth to seen. Overall, I'll give this movie just a 3/10, reasons I mentioned above.

BA_Harrison A photographer and his models decide to hold their latest fashion shoot in an Egyptian tomb, recently unearthed by unscrupulous treasure hunters. In doing so, they unwittingly awaken an ancient mummy and his slaves, who proceed to kill those who disturb their slumber.Dawn of the Mummy, a US/Egypt co-production, is a pretty poor gore flick obviously inspired by the success of Romero's Dawn of the Dead and subsequent Italian rip-offs (most notably Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2). After the best part of an hour spent following the futile attempts of the treasure hunters to find hidden gold and watching the models posing badly for the photographer, the mummy eventually rises from his sarcophagus to kill, closely followed by his shuffling zombie-like assistants. Director Frank Agrama manages a couple of workmanlike scares, there are plenty of unintentional laughs to be had, and the movie eventually dishes up plenty of cheapo splatter towards the end, but it really isn't really worth sitting through the tedious stuff to get to the juicy bits.

dmc102 Dawn of the Mummy (1980) represents one of the only Egyptian produced films to feature Egypt's most famous character. Filmed on actual Egyptian locations, director Farouk (Frank) Agrama directs his cast of Calender models as they shoot in an ancient tomb! Man, they're just asking for it! Sure, Dawn of the Mummy draws many of it's themes from the popular Zombie films of the 70's/80's. The title is more than a tad similar to George Romero's 1978 classic, and the film itself more than borrows from the Italian films being produced on the Zombie subject. But, I must say that I can't help but like this film. It is ludicrous, boring and unavoidably bad - but so what? It's a Mummy film! This was one of the films to suffer cuts in the UK at that hands of Margaret Thatcher and the BBFC (hate...so...much!) and remained butchered in the UK until the good folks at Anchor Bay re-visited it with a cleaned up picture and all of the gratuitous scenes back in. Or so I thought.Where is the gore? Where is the violence? Not here. This film is in no way worthy of it's "video nasty" trophy. In fact, I can't say this film isn't suitable for a five year old. The only gore scene I can remember is when a guy is decapitate. Yuck, I hear you say. Not really. You hear a scream and then see a Papier Mache ball roll down the sand dune.So what is my conclusion? I like it. It's good, clean, hokey fun which you will keep going back to. Want a white knuckle video nasty? Buy Cannibal Holocaust. I really doubt that anyone from the BBFC actually watched this film during the onslaught of the video nasties in 1980 - I expect they looked at the genre; Zombie film. This is a funny film suitable for the entire family - take it for what it is!