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Egypt 1902: Because of social unrests throughout the country, Captain
Storm (Mark Dana) is ordered to retrieve professor Robert Quentin (George
N. Neise) and company from an archeological dig somewhere in the desert.
Thing is, Storm has to take Quentin's wife Sylvia (Diane Brewster) with
him ... On their way, Storm, Sylvia and the meagre two soldiers (Terence
de Marney, Richard Peel) pick up a strange girl, Simira (Ziva Rodann), who
claims she needs no water and food and no horse or mule, and she wants to
make the way to the dig on foot to save her brother Numar (Alvaro
Guillot). She insists on taking a shorter route, too, but Storm will have
nothing of it ... and thus after a few days, the mules start to disappear,
as does the water, and finally Sylvia is bitten by a scorpion - and now
Storm has to give in to take Simira's route rather than his own,
longer-winded one. Storm and his party arrive at the tomb Quentin and
company are investigating just when they cut the mummy's bandages - and
when they do, Numar falls into a kind of coma. Then though he develops
mummy-like features and escapes his sickbed, killing a mule and drinking
his blood, then hiding in the tomb's labyrinthine corridors. The real
mummy meanwhile has disappeared into thin air. When the others investigate
the tomb to make head or tails of the story, they are killed and sucked
dry of their blood one by one - yet when Storm tries to grab Numar, who's
by now all mummy-looking (but for some reason, he still wears his sickbed
pajamas), he tears of his arm which seems to fall into dust almost
immediately. Anyways, eventually, Quentin and his scientists find out that
Numar is the reincarnation of the Egyptian high priest who was killed to
protect the tomb, and Simira a cat Goddess. By now though, Quentin has
gone a bit over-the-top, and while everyone else tries to leave, he tries
to prevent just that, just because of the scientific discovery he thinks
he's making ... but ultimately he becomes the mummy's last victim. Then
the mummy inexplicably returns to his sarcophagus, while Storm and Sylvia
(and a few others) are left alive - oh, need I even tell you they've long
fallen in love with each other. I am of two minds about this
low budget mummy shocker: There are some really effective scenes in this
one, and the sets, while obviously on the budget-conscious (and thus
spartanic) side, have a creepy quality to them. As does the mummy makeup
as a matter of fact. And Ziva Rodann as Simira is suitably creepy as well. On
the other hand, the film's story is a bit too clichéed on one hand, not
all that well thought-through on the other, it's slow pace only sometimes
works in the atmosphere's favour, other times just makes things boring -
and whoever thought it might be a good idea to have the mummy wear pajamas
... well, was wrong, quite frankly
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