ceejayred A photographer and his bevy of models arrive in Egypt for a photoshoot and run into a treasure hunter who is searching for mummy gold. They all inadvertently revive the bandaged baddie who then proceeds to slaughter everyone, with the help of his equally undead minions.The production went into the locations, the costumes and the special effects makeup sparing none for the cast, since no one acting in this film was by any means a familiar face. The story builds rather slowly to a climax that is equal parts gory and silly. But still, there is something charming about this movie and I rather enjoyed it. There is some decent and totally gratuitous gore in Dawn of the Mummy. Watch for actor George Peck, who plays the treasure-hunting Rick, as he overacts with extreme prejudice. It's rather hilarious.If you don't take this too seriously at all, and go into it with an open mind with zero expectations, you may find yourself enjoying this little remembered horror flick from the early 80's.

EVOL666 I had heard about DAWN OF THE MUMMY quite a while back-both in terms of it's supposedly extremely gory ending-and also how bad the rest of the film is supposed to be. I've had this one laying around for years but was never real interested in watching it. But I've been on a bit of a kick for weird '80s horror films-and I figured this one would fit the bill-so I gave it a shot.  A tomb-raider named Rick and his two assistants find the burial-ground of a mummy called Surferman (or some such sh!t...)-but their grave-robbing is interrupted by a group of fashion-models and photogs who stumble across the tomb and consider it to be the perfect spot for their shoot. Of course the tomb is cursed, and the photo crew's bright lights awaken the mummy and his zombie-like minions who eventually go on a feeding- frenzy at a wedding...The good points: I personally liked the gooey-looking mummy. I liked that they went with something a little different than the standard wrapped-in-gauze look. The ending-though ridiculous-is fun, if not nearly as gory as some have made it out to be. The bad points: everything else. The acting is terrible-especially from grave-robber Rick. He over-acts so horribly that I almost have to rank it under the good points because his performance is so ridiculous that its actually one of the highlights of the film.  The pacing is snail-paced until the end. The plot is stupid and uninteresting, and there's no nudity from any of the attractive females in the cast. DAWN OF THE MUMMY has a few amusing moments-and those who are fans of super-low budget schlock films may get a kick out of it. Others will be bored stupid. I tend to usually at least somewhat enjoy these kinds of films-and this one I found to be slightly worthwhile. 5/10

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.

Coventry Believe it or not but, strictly seen from a marketing-point-of-view, this "Dawn of the Mummy" actually is a rather clever movie! The DVD-cover just screams out "the first mummy gore movie ever!" (at least, mine does) and even the title is clearly inspired by the 1978 cult-hit. It's obvious that the makers carefully observed the zombie-gore successes of both George A. Romero and Lucio Fulci and they wanted to do exactly the same…only with mummies! You can't really blame anyone for exploiting something that's profitable, right? The movie itself, however, is every bit as bad as you expect it to be: no plot, few tension, unlikable characters, laughable dialogues and – of course – atrocious 80's acting. It's about a couple of greedy treasure-hunters, dressed up like archaeologists, who perpetrate an ancient Egyptian pyramid in search of gold. All of a sudden, a group of young and idiotic fashion models and photographers join in and their noise and heavy lighting equipment cause the mummy to awake. Irritated as he is, the mummy and his servants go on a killing spree. The first hour of this film is tame, incredibly sophomoric and hardly endurable because of its cheapness. There are a few lame attempts to throw in some sleaze (because it sells, I guess) and eerie music but nothing helps. If you are a persistent horror fan and make it to the last 20 minutes, you'll be rewarded with an explosively gore climax in which nearly all the irritating characters you hated so much will die a violent and nasty death! Amen for that! Other mildly entertaining elements include an atmospheric resurrection of desert-zombies (shamelessly copied from Fulci's repertoire, but still…) and the (stereotypical) old witch who wanders around nagging about the curse! Unless you want to see every horror movie made, I'd advise you to skip "Dawn of the Mummy" as it is almost too stupid for words. For example: this movie teaches us that mummies can be brought to life rather easily! You don't need no complex hieroglyphs or boring parchments…all you got to do is hatch the mummy out!