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Dawn Of The Mummy [1982] [DVD]
 
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Dawn Of The Mummy [1982] [DVD]

DVD ~ Brenda King
2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Brenda King, Barry Sattels, George Peck, John Salvo, Ibrahim Khan
  • Directors: Frank Agrama
  • Writers: Frank Agrama, Daria Price, Ronald Dobrin
  • Producers: Frank Agrama, Ahmed Agrama, Ahmed Ramzy, Lew Horwitz
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Anchor Bay Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 24 Mar 2003
  • Run Time: 87 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00008MJ2R
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 68,662 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Special Features

1.77 Wide Screen
16:9 Wide Screen
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English\DTS English\Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround English
Dolby Digital 5.1
DTS
Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Director Audio Commentary
Photo Gallery
Film Notes
Scene Selection


Synopsis

Four beautiful high-fashion models use the pharoah's tomb as the background for a series of photos. Unfortunately, their unintentional act of desecration awakes the mummy who must punish all violators.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars the only mummy gore fest, 2 April 2003
This film is a limp cash-in on George Romero's seminal Zombie film. Hence the title. Fans of Lucio Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eater's might like to add this to their collection, as eventually, after much boring dialogue, the viewer is treated to the film's only great squence, as the titular mummy's rise from the desert to go on a gory rampage in a near-by town.
How much gore you get for your quid, depends on the BBFC, as this was once on the banned list.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A DECENT MUMMY FILM AND A GORY ONE TOO, 3 Nov 2007
By stuart "s.vernon" (MIDDLESBROUGH, ENGLAND) - See all my reviews
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An ancient Egyptian king is locked inside a sacred tomb and it's protected by an evil curse, which Rick, (John Salvo) ignores and opens it anyway. Later on, Gary, (Barry Sattels) and his photography group, photographer Bill (George Peck) and models Lisa, (Brenda King) Jenny, (Joan Levy) Melinda, (Ellen Faison) and Joan, (Dianne Betty) arrive at the burial ground to perform a fashion shoot. While wandering around the pyramids, they stumble upon Rick and his excavation site. Exploring the tomb, they find the Mummies burial ground and Gary decides it's the best place to shoot his series of photos. Being inside the tomb sparks the curse, and the mummy is revived to seek revenge for his burial. The revived Mummy stalks the group one by one, who is unaware and continues the photo shoot.

The Good News: As far as Mummy movies go, this one takes the cake as far as goriest one made. We get a large amount of blood and gore in here, so much more than any other mummy movie. We get a meat-cleaver to the head, a decapitation, and tons of people are killed by zombified mummies. This also brings up the fact that it's one of the cleverest Mummy movies out there by incorporating the traditional Mummy mythology with zombies. That's a pretty great idea by mixing the two genres the way this one does. It's a great way to up the value of the film by having two different genres mixed together into one cohesive unit. Neither storyline is really put above the other one, so it's pretty easy to follow along and not get confused over what it happening. It's a pretty sweet idea that really takes some creative thought to hold those two from coming up with a cliché-ridden storyline and combines the best aspects of both genres into one great story. Almost as impressive is the look of the mummies/zombies in this film. They look accurately decayed and rotten, dirty bandages dripping off their bodies and Mummified looks from behind their rotten faces, and this makes for a grand monster which captures and frightens your imaginations. It's quite effective.

The Bad News: This one takes a while to get going, so it can be a boring beginning if you're not prepared to sit through some character and situation set-up before the action kicks in. Granted, this has happened before, but it's a bit longer than normal before the action starts up, and since none of the characters are all that spectacular to begin with, it makes for a hard opening to sit trough. Beyond that, it's not all that bad.

The Final Verdict: I liked this one a lot, but if you can forgive a slow opening, you'll like this one as well. It's pretty gory, so it's not for the weak-stomach. Gorehounds, check it out, those who love Mummy movies will also find a lot to love in this one. Be careful, others, as this one is pretty cheesy.
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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Should Have Been Kept Under Wraps, 25 April 2003
I cannot believe that this pile of utter tat has finally made it into DVD, with a host of extras as well!
Back in the early eighties, it very quickly became difficult to get hold of certain films in their uncut form and this was one of them. The only reason that the original VHS of the dreadful Bobbee Bresee starrer ‘Mausoleum’ was so popular was because at the end of it you could watch the trailer for ‘Dawn of the Mummy’, which featured quite a few of the gory scenes not deemed fit for British eyes at that time. Unfortunately, when those of us so inclined managed to get hold of the entire film we were in for a big disappointment.
It’s not just that ‘Dawn of the Mummy’ is bad, but that it ruins such potential. Take a great title (with all the inherent possibilities of a George A Romero rip-off), a great premise (when the mummy awakens, so do all the servants who were buried with him, only they come back as kick-ass zombies), a great make-up artist (Maurizio Trani, who assisted Gianetto de Rossi on Lucio Fulci classics amongst others), and some great locations (the pyramids, for God’s sake!) and then bury all the things you have going for it in a vapid, poorly-acted, tedious exercise in exploitation film-making with some of the most dislikeable characters ever committed to celluloid. The bit where the zombies rise from their desert grave is superb, but it’s a case of too little far too late. This is exactly the sort of picture that gives horror movies a bad name.
What about the extras? Well, if I had to compile a list of movies that I thought would never get a commentary this must have been in the top five, and yet here we have Frank Agrama chatting merrily away about the technical aspects of putting together his magnum horrendous. The ‘film notes’ have been written by someone who couldn’t even be bothered to watch the film and who instead gives us a potted history of mummy movies in general. Oh, and there’s the trailer, which is still quite good. In fact it’s a triumph of the trailer-maker’s art as it still makes you want to watch the picture even though you know it’s utter garbage. It’s hard to believe anyone could make films worse than Andrea Bianchi. In fact I think I’d rather watch Burial Ground (The Zombie Dead in the UK) again that have to sit through this. Excruciating.
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