Lancoor A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Sandy Petersen For some reason, this film wasn't on DVD until this year, but it was shown a LOT on late night television back in the day. I saw it as a little kid and thought it was frightening and effective back then. Of course I am older now, but some of the veneer of seeing it back then still holds up.The mummy is dressed a little odd (no bandages), but his face is certainly hideous enough, and there is a reason for his strange garb which is unveiled later on. A fair number of people get killed, and we see the mummy quite a bit, really.Some people complain we don't see it for the first half of the film, which I guess is true, but on the other hand, the film is only 66 minutes long for Pete's sake. We don't see the monster in the first half hour of many movies, and this is no exception.If the movie dragged on for 90-120 minutes, it would be a disaster, but for only 66 minutes, it holds up. I pine for the days when a film-maker felt free to make a shorter subject, particularly when the topic doesn't hold up for a longer time. I wish the makers of Pearl Harbor had had the guts to cut THEIR movie back.

bensonmum2 The soul of an ancient mummy is transferred to one of his followers so that he might punish everyone involved in the desecration of his tomb. The soul transference makes the young man age at a tremendous pace until he himself resembles a mummy. One by one, the blood is drained from those involved in the dig.To be as brief as possible, Pharaoh's Curse is quite the lackluster affair. While the movie does present a few good, original ideas (blood sucking mummy's, soul transference, interesting make-up effects, the arm ripping scene, etc.) and a few atmospheric moments, the direction and pace are the very definition of plodding. To make matters even worse, the first 15 of the film's relatively short 66 minute runtime consist of nothing much more than padding. I usually go for these slow moving mummy movies, but Pharaoh's Curse tests even my patients. The cast helps very little. With only one exception (Ziva Rodann is the lone bright spot – wish the movie could have focused more on her mysterious character), the cast is as dull as the screenplay. Finally, I don't know whose idea it was to put the mummy-looking servant in what appears to be pajamas, but it's a laughable, ridiculous look for a creature that supposed to instill fear in the audience.Despite my mostly negative comments on the Pharaoh's Curse, I'm going to rate it a 4/10. Not a good rating to be sure, but generous given all the problems I have with the movie.

slayrrr666 "Pharaoh's Curse" is a really dull mummy film with very few good things about it.**SPOILERS**Hoping to quell restless natives, British Officer Capt. Storm, (Mark Dana) is sent off with a crew consisting of Sgt. Gromley, (Richard Peel) Sgt. Smolett, (Terrence de Marney) and Sylvia Quentin, (Diane Brewster) for the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Arriving at the spot, they are soon warned away from the site by Simira, (Ziva Rodann) a local wandering the desert, and decide to take her along. Encountering a series of hardships along the way, they finally manage to make it to the resting site. There, they meet up with Robert Quentin, (George N. Neise) excavating the site and join up with his crew. Discovering the seal of the tomb they were looking for, they soon find themselves the target of a series of murders that are found to be the work of a mummy. Trying to get away, they fight back against the creature who had entered the tomb.The Good News: This one didn't have all that much going for it. One of them is that the mummy itself looks pretty good. With the shriveled face, dried-out skin and general rotting feel to it, making this a pretty nicely designed creature. The fact that it's the possessed spirit of one of the crew-members, who then has to spend the time not in bandages but in the tarnished rags of what they were wearing on the expedition. This is quite nice, and is a pretty good change-of-pace from most mummy films. There's also a few good sequences in here. The main trap scene comes with the film's single most memorable image where the mummy's arm falls off, a great sequence where the shadow of a cat walks along a tent wall only for the entity to appear isn't what the shadow gave it to be, and the first walk-through of the tomb are all pretty solid scenes. These, though, are all the film manages to get right.The Bad News: There wasn't a whole lot right, but there wasn't a whole lot wrong with it either. The film itself is just flat-out dull. Nothing much at all happens in the film, and this one just doesn't do anything. This is mostly concerned with talking about everything, from the beginning with the focus on the journey there to the fact that the tomb isn't even broken until the fortieth minute of the film, well over halfway there for the film. The endless talking is another factor in how short the film really is, as there's so little time for action in the film that there's almost nothing that happens in the film. That there is what's going to impact the film so much, as the short running time and completely dull nature are going to severely ruin this one.The Final Verdict: An incredibly dull mummy movie without a whole lot going for it, this one instead has a few positive aspects. Really hard to recommend this one too, as the very few positives won't nearly make up for the negatives here, so seek caution with this one.Today's Rating-PG: Mild Violence

jc1b7 I saw this movie last weekend and it is silly and mindless. An ancient curse turns a man into a mummy in his pajamas? The victims are scared senseless and can not run from a slow moving old man. They drop their torches and shiver instead of attempting to ward him off or,duh, burn him. Quentin alias Mr. Fabersham of the Honeymooners is married to Diane Brewster alias Miss Canfield of Leave it to Beaver fame, who is unhappy in marriage. Wow, love plot. The rest of the cast just follows each other in the tombs and wait for screams to react and run to their aid. The Egyptian girl is not bad looking but does not lend much to the film. Where is the mummy? Really just a curse unleashed. This does not hold a torch to Universal Mummy films in the least.Watch this movie if you need sleep, because you will dose off.