lost-in-limbo With a title like this, you know what market they were aiming at. Does it pull it off? Yes, if you're looking for a gory zombie feature, but as for a mummy presentation it's disappointing. Mummy horror, there's just not enough of it... well at least, not recommendable. "Dawn of the Mummy" falls into that category. A photographer and his models unknowingly come across a newly excavated Egyptian burial tomb when encountering some grave robbers. Despite the warnings, they decide to do the shoot in the tomb, but this begins the slow progress of reviving the tombed dead pharaoh and unleashing the ancient curse of him coming back from the death for revenge. The problem mainly lies on its sloppy direction, flat pace and downright tedious story. It takes too long to get going, making the padded out sequences a chore. Though if you stick it out, you're given a hectic and grisly payoff. The gory make-up effects are pretty well-done with some nasty scenes involving the zombies (not the mummy). However there's no suspense to these build-ups, making the nauseating shocks measurably boring and cheap. Performances are really woeful and insufferable, but you do get a good laugh from a few eccentrics. George Peck is a standout. For all the wrong reasons. Also you got to deal with constant deafening screams from the beauties; Brenda Siemer Scheider, Joan Levy, Ellen Faison and Diane Beatty. A big plus is that it's shot-on- location in Cario, which does add the atmosphere. But in the end, visually it's quite limited and clunky. The monster of the piece is not your traditional looking mummy dressed up in white bandages, but its towering 7 foot frame, dark oozing figure and black tar face still was rather effective design. Just wished it did a bit more, as even the climax involving it is lacklustre, despite literally going out with a bang.

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.

slayrrr666 "Dawn of the Mummy" is easily the goriest Mummy movie ever made.**SPOILERS**An ancient Egyptian king is locked inside a sacred tomb and it's protected by an evil curse, which Rick, (John Salvo) ignores and opens it anyway. Later on, Gary, (Barry Sattels) and his photography group, photographer Bill (George Peck) and models Lisa, (Brenda King) Jenny, (Joan Levy) Melinda, (Ellen Faison) and Joan, (Dianne Betty) arrive at the burial ground to perform a fashion shoot. While wandering around the pyramids, they stumble upon Rick and his excavation site. Exploring the tomb, they find the Mummies burial ground and Gary decides it's the best place to shoot his series of photos. Being inside the tomb sparks the curse, and the mummy is revived to seek revenge for his burial. The revived Mummy stalks the group one by one, who is unaware and continues the photo shoot.The Good News: As far as Mummy movies go, this one takes the cake as far as goriest one made. We get a large amount of blood and gore in here, so much more than any other mummy movie. We get a meat-cleaver to the head, a decapitation, and tons of people are killed by zombified mummies. This also brings up the fact that it's one of the cleverest Mummy movies out there by incorporating the traditional Mummy mythology with zombies. That's a pretty great idea by mixing the two genres the way this one does. It's a great way to up the value of the film by having two different genres mixed together into one cohesive unit. Neither storyline is really put above the other one, so it's pretty easy to follow along and not get confused over what it happening. It's a pretty sweet idea that really takes some creative thought to hold those two from coming up with a cliché-ridden storyline and combines the best aspects of both genres into one great story. Almost as impressive is the look of the mummies/zombies in this film. They look accurately decayed and rotten, dirty bandages dripping off their bodies and Mummified looks from behind their rotten faces, and this makes for a grand monster which captures and frightens your imaginations. It's quite effective.The Bad News: This one takes a while to get going, so it can be a boring beginning if you're not prepared to sit through some character and situation set-up before the action kicks in. Granted, this has happened before, but it's a bit longer than normal before the action starts up, and since none of the characters are all that spectacular to begin with, it makes for a hard opening to sit trough. Beyond that, it's not all that bad.The Final Verdict: I liked this one a lot, but if you can forgive a slow opening, you'll like this one as well. It's pretty gory, so it's not for the weak-stomach. Gorehounds, check it out, those who love Mummy movies will also find a lot to love in this one. Be careful, others, as this one is pretty cheesy.Rated R: Graphic Violence and some mild drug use

gletzes O.K,i am just writing this to clear up the misinformation that the Anchor Bay DVD release is the "uncut" one.It isn't.In fact it is missing most of the gore.I have watched the true uncut version,a Greek VHS copy,a long time ago and i can still remember this film being much gorier that what Anchor Bay has released.Let me explain that in the mid-eighties ,Greece was a paradise for every gorehound cause the arrival of VHS had brought a ton of small Greek distributors that were releasing every piece of horror "video nasty" totally uncut including movies like cannibal holocaust,cannibal ferrox,every Fulci movie and many more, "Dawn of the Mummy" included.Anyway the movie is horrible but it has a few laughs due to the hilarious "acting" and the music is kind of neat.Other than that i was disappointed to find out that most of the gore is missing from the Anchor Bay version...