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El Secreto de la Momia Egipcia
Love Brides of the Blood Mummy
Lips of Blood / Perversions Sexuelles
Spain/France 1973
produced by José Ortiz Segura, Jorge Ferrer (executive) for Orbita Films, Les Films de l'Epée
directed by Alejandro Marti
starring George Rigaud, Michael Flynn, Catherine Franck, Frank Brana, Patricia Lee, Sandra Reeves, Julie Presscott, Jacques Bernard, Martin Trévères, Teresa Gimpera, Elizabeth Stephanovitch, Richard Vitz
story by Vincent Didier, screenplay by Vincent Didier, Julio Salvador, music by Max Gazzola
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Somewhen in the 19th century (presumably): The Lord of Dartmoor Castle
(George Rigaud) has just received a mummy, and to his surprise it's not
the more customary wrapped up one but a corpse that looks alive despite
millenia of being dead. So our good Mr Dartmoor thinks he knows enough
about biology, electricity and of course mesmerism to just revive the
mummy - and he succeeds, too. Only, the mummy is a bit grumpy in the
morning, so it brings Dartmoor's servant John under his evil spell and has
him first incarcerate Dartmoor, then he sends him out to bring him
beautiful young girls (late teens to early twenties), because you know,
the mummy has to drink blood on a daily basis. And while the mummy's at
it, it also tortures and or rapes the girls brought to him. Eventually,
Dartmoor's daughter Lucy (Catherine Franck) arrives back home with a
friend (Teresa Gimpera), which somehow pulls John out of his hypnotic
spell, while the mummy proves that two women are too much for him to
handle. So Lucy's friend escapes (thought totally traumatized), and while
the mummy is busy raping Lucy, John frees Dartmoor, and Dartmoor wounds
the mummy fatally (but at the same time kills his daughter). While he
walls up the mummy though, he keeps the mummy's severed hand as a kind of
trophy - bad idea because the very same night, the mummy's hand walks
throught he castle to ultimately strangle Dartmoor ... El
Secreto de la Momia Egipcia is a largely forgotten piece of
Euro-horror - and forgotten for a good reason for a change: Basically,
this film is extremely poor on plot (even for a formula movie) and just
concentrates on finding yet another feeble excuse to show a woman being
flogged and raped - and this gets mighty tedious after a while, because
this way the story at hand lacks any and all build-up and becomes
repetitive (and thanks to a tired directorial effort) boring after a
while. Of course, real Euro-horror afficionados like myself will still
find something funny about this movie, but it's anything but a
"lost" classic.
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