Saturday, November 13, 2010

Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy (1999)

When an Aztec mummy is discovered in Mexico, it is shipped to a professor whose six of her archaeology students plan to study it. When it arrives, they find that the mummy appears to be wrapped in Ace bandages and is very clean.

One of the archaeology students is a lunkhead who steals a bracelet off the mummy to give to a girl he has a crush on. At first she is upset that he stole an artifact, but then she tells him it was so sweet for him to steal it for her. Huh? She'll be a credit to her field.

There is also a creepy nerdy student named Norman. Norman is the last remaining Aztec High Priest and plans on bringing the mummy back to life and exacting revenge. Unfortunately it's hard to take Norman seriously since he's a pasty, scrawny white boy whose priest outfit looks like a cheap Halloween costume.

Once the mummy is brought back to life, it shambles slowly around. Some of the bandages on it's face have fallen away and the one left under it's nose looks like a large handlebar mustache. The only way it is able to kill people is that its victims do not try to get away. Lucky for the mummy, the students decide to have a party where the mummy is being stored so it doesn't even have to go looking for victims.

Even though this is supposed to be a college campus, the mummy appears to be wandering around a house rather than a school. Also the area that is supposed to be a classroom looks like a greenhouse where someone has put metal folding chairs, a chalkboard, and a podium.

Norman states his reason for killing the other students is that everyone picked on him and made fun of him, which is totally untrue. The only person who hassled him was the lunkhead jock, and the other kids always told the jock to stop because Norman was an okay guy. Guess they feel pretty stupid now.

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