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Mummy Reborn
UK 2019
produced by Scott Jeffrey, Rebecca Matthews, Tara MacGowran (executive) for Proportion Productions, Major Zeus, Brief Yellow Light Productions
directed by Dan Allen
starring Tiffany-Ellen Robinson, Victor Toth, Chris Kaye, Louis Findlay, Tara MacGowran, Georgia Wood, Mika Hockman, Will Dodd, Carey Thring, Becca Hirani, Michael Otteson, Charlene Durrant, Nick Murphy, Henry Smith, Shaila Alvarez, Jitendra Rai, Rita Siddiqui, Kavita Vyas, Heronimo Sehmi, Patsy Prince, Yasmin Ahsanullah, Nila Patel, Claudine-Helene Aumord, Sheila Kaur, Chiraag Patel
written by Scott Jeffrey, Dan Allen, music by Neil Myers
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Young Tina (Tiffany-Ellen Robinson) is really down on her luck: Since
her mother died, she has taken care of her mentally challenged brother Max
(Victor Toth), while her job's hardly paying the bills, let alone the
carer (Becca Hirani) for Max while she's working - and then her boss Karen
(Tara MacGowran) tells her she's closing shop - an antique store - as it's
hardly making any money as it is. This throws Tina into despair of course,
but going through the photos she has taken doing inventory for the final
sale, her boyfriend Luke (Chris Kaye) has an idea of how to fix all their
worries: Why doesn't Tina leave the door to the shop open tonight so a
bunch of Luke's friends can sneak in and steal what appears to be a
priceless amulet. Tina's less than sure about this, but desparate enough
to agree to it anyways. And it actually works like a charm, there's just
the fact that Luke's friends - Duncan (Louis Findlay), his girlfriend Ali
(Georgia Wood), and Jasmine (Mika Hockman) got a bit greedy and didn't
only steal the amulet but also a wooden box that was somehow related to it
- and the wooden box contains a mummy (Will Dodd). And of course, once the
box and amulet are at Tina's place, the mummy gets in touch with the
amulet, which to nobody's surprise causes its resurretion, and it's ready
to wreak havoc. Just one thing, the amulet got broken, and Max has hidden
one of the pieces, so now the mummy tries to kill its way to it, and soon
enough has taken out Ali and Jasmine and turned them into its slaves.
Duncan takes off into the woods, but is soon stopped dead in his track by
the mummy, and it and Ali and Jasmine decide to take out a bunch of
hippies who are camping nearby just for good measure. Meanwhile, back at
Tina's, she, Luke and Max are preparing for the mummy's return, but
whatever they put into action seems to fail, until Tina finds herself
forced to do the last thing she ever wanted to - call Karen, admit to the
theft, and ask for assistance ...
So ok, Mummy Reborn is hardly a film that has
re-invented the mummy genre - in fact, objectively speaking it's little
more than your typical slasher with a mummy as the killer ... but that's
totally overlooking one thing: Mummy Reborn is quite simply so much
fun! The film doesn't seem to take itself one bit seriously, and it seems
to urge the viewer to do the same - sure, it's formulaic, but there are
plenty of sight gags, oneliners, situations and elements of parody to keep
one entertained throughout, while the film always stays above the moronic,
but when things are supposed to get tense and bloody, Mummy Reborn
doesn't pull any punches, either. Basically, this is a party movie, best
consumed with beer, but one one doesn't have to feel embarrassed about
liking when sober.
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