geminiredblue Years ago, while reading a book about horror movies, this little-known gem was mentioned. Being a horror movie completist, I simply had to track it down. Happily, I came across a multi-DVD pack which included DAWN OF THE MUMMY. While the transfer sucked, night scenes were REALLY dark, it didn't get in the way of the beautiful shots of Egyptian pyramids and the desert. Next to that, the rest of the movie pales in comparison. Euro-trash is characterized by bad acting, poor dialogue, senseless plots and unbelievable gore. And this movie has it all! While not nearly as crazed as the Italian horror films of the 80s, you can see where the filmmakers had the same spirit. The movie is about a group of photographers and models who travel to Egypt in order to do a photo-shoot. But along the way, they come across some dubious crypt explorers (who turn out to be grave-robbers) and release an ancient mummy from his curse. Soon after, corpses rise from the sand to devour anyone in their path. Admittedly, witnessing this scene is pretty eerie! But that's coupled with some truly nonsensical moments. My personal favorite is when 2 models decide to chase each other around a sand dune. The girl falls over and rolls down the dune, only to find a fake-looking corpse-less head. She screams and everyone rushes over to see what's up. The girl keeps screaming and screaming, but the crowd just continues to stand there. Often times in movies like this, I love a silly line of dialogue. In this, it's when an old crone repeatedly warns everyone that the mummy "Will rise and kill!" Again, this movie is best watched with a group of funny friends, so that you can all watch and laugh at the ridiculous story, ala MST3K!

tedder_ryan First time I saw this movie poster it was interested me. Cover was really nice , cool and creepy. I tried to check about "Dawn of the mummy" information on internet included IMDb. So. I wondered why rate of this film was really BAD. But I don't care , the poster interested me. Then I found many DVD / VCD shops where had it on sale.Today , I'm feel very happy because I buy it just only 2.99$. I back home and watch it. Opening nice and scenes good. Time past by the film gone wild and worse.Very bad quality. I never expected that the film will awful like this. "B" movie is the worst , zombie , mummy make me confused what are they ? They're Zom-my or Mum-bie wow! really waste my time and my money.But the last 15 minutes very fun (best 15 minutes from this movie). However it still bad for me. I hate this film ! (this is my conclusion!)2 out of 10.

lordzedd-3 The Mummy genre is not unique but it's time tested. This low budget loser from the 1980's is just awful and that's being kind. It takes forever to get going and when it does it doesn't make any sense. Hot lights re-animates the dead, I think not. I can't call the characters two dimensional, because that would be considered an improvement. The gooey mummy sucks the big time, and what's up with the man eating mummy. Zombies eat human flesh, Mummies crush people. The effects are pretty good but that alone cannot save this waste of film. The ending is typical of the time period, but I can't stand the movie has a whole. I must give it THE CRAP-O-LANTERN.

Vomitron_G This is the stuff bad movies are made of. Bad acting? Check. Bad directing? Check. Bad editing? Check. Bad lighting? Check. Bad acting? Check. Bad acting? Check. Did I mention bad acting? Check.As everyone already knows, DAWN OF THE MUMMY is an American/Egyptian co-production which was made only to cash in on Romero's success with DAWN OF THE DEAD. But DAWN OF THE MUMMY is only 10 times worse than Fulci's ZOMBI 2. The story? A crew of models and photographers enter a tomb to do a fashion-shoot at the same time some archaeologists are there in search for a golden treasure. They manage to awake the evil Safiraman and his 8 mummy-slaves.DOTM is enjoyable for all the wrong reasons. A few examples maybe? Absolute high-light among the actors is that blonde archaeologist/grave-robber. His acting is hilarious, including lots of funny faces. During the gory mummy-action in the end, there's one guy doing a few Kung-Fu kicks and then he runs into a door knocking himself unconscious. At the end, when the few survivors think he's dead, Kung-Fu-man jumps into the frame, shouting "Surprise! I'm still alive!".DOTM is also very educational. Here are a few things I've learned while watching this movie:Always listen to crazy old ladies shouting warnings. If you don't, you'll be sealing your fate.All Egyptians speak English with a fake accent.It's easy to resurrect a mummy. All it takes is placing a spotlight above him. The light will bring it back to live.All mummies are bald.Only a blonde girl can manage to get lost in a tomb which consists of only three corridors.Finding a golden treasure must really hurt. You'll go mad and scream in pain (that blonde dude again).Always take advantage of a traumatized girl. Because she will have sex with you.Egyptians are masters in deduction. When an Egyptian is asked why he's working on his wedding night, he'll answer: "Wedding = Babies -> Babies = Eat -> Eat = Money -> Money = Work. So I Work."Female Arabian belly dancers are supposed to be fat.Fotographers and models make excellent boy-scouts. They make good tents and improvised showers.Alright, that's enough. So this flick is unintentionally funny, really bad and also boring. We have to wait an hour for the gory climax and even that isn't much. There is some gut-munching, throat-biting, a decapitated head, big knife to the head,... but it's all done very poorly. But Safiraman seems to be a wise mummy. Because several times you can see him just standing around, clearly doing a lot of thinking. But in the end he's not so clever after all.Okay, enough said. Now you know what you're getting into when you rent this flick.