Director: Charles Pinion
Writer: Charles Pinion, Greg Salman (Screenplay)
Starring: Suziey Block, Aidan Bristow, Aaron Burt, Esther Canata, Erin Condry, Jack Grimmett
Plot: A group of university students in the New Mexico desert unearth an ancient mummy, on which one of the students performs a secret, primeval blood ritual. This awakens the death-hungry spirit of the Aztec Lord Tezcalipoca, intent on finishing his centuries-old reign of terror. Soon, the mummy’s curse possesses the students’ souls, turning them against each other in a bid to spread his evil to the entire world.
There may be spoilers the rest of the review
Verdict: Just Not Good Enough
Story: American Mummy starts as a couple of student discover an Aztec mommy in the New Mexico desert, Professor Jenson (Block) leads her team of students, Max (Bristow), Derek (Burt), Carmen (Canata), Conniee (Condry), Albert (Marr) and Becca (Ross) are all working on the discovery, but it is clear one of the students has alternative means for being there.
Once the ritual has been performed the mommy of the Aztec lord Tezcalipoca rises in search for blood, the surviving members of dig are forced to use their intelligence to stop the mommy from taking back over the whole world.
Thoughts on American Mummy
Characters/Performance – This is the part if hate, saying all the bad things about the poorly written characters, the Professor Jenson character doesn’t seem to have any idea, control or plan for the dig with the students falling into the generic we have all seen before.
Performance wise, we don’t get much improvement here, nobody does themselves any credit here and you are left wondering just what happened.
Story – I want to start this with saying I am a HUGE fan of the Mummy concept in films, I will watch any and give small idea a chance. going into this story I couldn’t help but think it missed on every level, it seems to mix Cabin Fever with a Mummy movie and doesn’t quite click.
Horror – We have gore, sure but too me this is never scary which is what I want in a horror film.
Settings – We are left in the desert for the most part of the movie which is fine but it could be any desert you would have expected someone would have found by now.
Special Effects – The effects are all used for the gore and are fine without being anything special.
Final Thoughts – This was a poor attempt to bring another Mummy film to life, it lacks characters we care about and a Mummy figure or disease that feels like a real threat.
Overall: Poor Mummy film.
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