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Cheap, ridiculous 1980's thriller.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/27/23
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Pretty terrible low budget Fred Olin Ray directed film has an Egyptian princess (scream queen Michelle Bauer) rising from the grave in search of amulets that will give her immortality. I remember seeing this VHS box during my video store clerk days, but never watched it. I do have to admit to being suckered by the poster art, because I was expecting an Indiana Jones knock-off along the lines of "Firewalker" or "King Solomon's Mines," but this was more of a urban horror film and not a very good one. Cameron Mitchell, John Carradine, and Sybil Danning also appear in this dreck, but I will say I enjoyed the very corny synth pop song played over the end credits, which earned the film an extra half star.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/31/23
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Entertaining output, despite the suspect plot, from Fred Olen Ray. The ancient tomb of Egyptian sorceress Nefratis raided and the artifacts within are sold on the black market to American collectors. Holders of the valuable items are then tracked down by Nefratis herself as revenge for her tomb being desecrated. A true case of buyer's remorse. Several familiar b-listers are on board for this faces present here including (no surprise) Cameron Mitchell.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/13/23
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Fortune hunter raids the grave of an ancient Greek tomb, unlocking an evil spirit who attempts to reclaim the stolen artifacts after being sold on the black market. A bit of a disappointment for Fred Olen Ray (who would redeem himself in other efforts) and this workable cast. For her part, Sybil Danning appears in only one scene despite appearance on box cover.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/24/23
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Fred Olen Ray . . .
Awesome beginning, bad movie, typical of Fred Olen Ray. . . cool music . . . something about an old scarab.
The girl in the strip club has the biggest GAZOOKAS!!!!!
just for the GAZOOKAS . . .The Tomb gets a 100% . . . see it for the girl's TATAS!!!!!! (hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/14/23
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THE TOMB is a stupid movie. You can tell it's going to be a stupid movie becuase it's an 80's film with the words "Directed by Fred Olen Ray" in the opening credits.
That's fine, though. I like stupid movies, even the occasional stupid Fred Olen Ray movie. I have fond memories of seeing HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS (one of the best titles ever) on Cinemax as a kid. That's why I'm amazed I never got suckered into renting this one as a teenager.
During my middle and high school years, I pretty much rented every horror film that any video store in my area had. I was easily wooed by lurid cover art, promises of gore and B-grade stars. THE TOMB's video box features all of these things, and like most great direct-to-video films of the eighties, manages to deliver on none of them. Ah, memories.
The plot concerns the recoveray of some Egyptian relics from a previously undiscovered tomb by shifty scavenger John Banning. Banning sells these artifacts to Dr. Phillips, played with jittering excellence by Cameron Mitchell, not knowing that he's unwittingly unleashed a, um... vampire mummy princess. Possibly. It's all a little sketchy.
So the vampire mummy princess Nefratis (Michelle Bauer in her first featured role in a non-penetration flick) goes around killing those in her way or for no particular reason using her magical green ray powers, or ripping out their hearts, or just pushing them onto a bed with a snake. Meanwhile, Phillips contends with the son of a another doctor and his professor friend (you can tell he's a professor because he's smoking a pipe) trying to track down the murderer. The police are no good, the lead detective spouting off lines like "I have no idea what's obvious" and quoting PLAN 9.
Like all Ray films of the '80s, there's no real sense of peril and everything it too jokey to really take you in. Not to say the film is funny, mind you--the best gag is a running bit where Banning constantly has bottles of Miller High Life stashed everywhere, and that's not saying much. It strives for a comical, light, INDIANA JONES-type feel, but it's more like a fifth-rate TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS set in Los Angeles. The acting ranges from pleasingly over-the-top (Mitchell) to annoyingly over-the-top (Bauer) with the leads stuck blandly in between.
So there's really nothing good about THE TOMB, but I kind of found myself liking it anyway, mostly out of familiarity. There's no reason for the professors to be working only in dark rooms (it seems this would really strain their eyes), but they do. There's no reason for John Carradine to show up for a useless cameo as an expert in Egyptology or for Sybill Danning to appear briefly in the opening credits, but they do. There's no reason for a romantic music montage and "girl-with-glasses-takes-them-off-to-become-beautiful" sequence just as the film starts to pick up the pace a little, but there it is. There's no reason for me to watch this, but I did.
Stupid movie. Stupid, stupid movie. Yet, I strangely enjoyed it.
Kitten Natividad plays a topless stripper with no lines. Dawn Wildsmith takes her clothes off, Richard Alan Hench, a PLAYGIRL centerfold playing the male lead, sadly does not.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
01/25/23
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