Tale of the Mummy

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Tale of the Mummy

R

1998

1h 27m

Horror

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Fifty years ago, Sir Richard Turkel (Christopher Lee) met disaster while exploring the supposedly cursed tomb of the ancient Egyptian tyrant Talos. Now his granddaughter, archaeologist Samantha Turkel (Louise Lombard), eagerly picks up where he left off, delving into its depths to uncover Talos' sarcophagus. But, shortly after the tomb's artifacts are transferred to a London museum, a strange series of murders begins to plague the city. Baffled local detectives enlist Samantha for help.

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Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

12/27/2006

1.5/4

Unless you find the idea of killer mummy wraps particularly frightening, chances are you'll find this direct-to-vid thriller as ridiculous as I did.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

10/06/2005

2/5

Gerry Shamray

Your Movies (cleveland.com)

09/08/2002

3/5

Not bad but poor CGI muffles the scares.

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Scott Weinberg

eFilmCritic.com

07/25/2002

1/5

Greg Dean Schmitz

Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies

01/01/2000

2/4

Dan Jardine

Apollo Guide

01/01/2000

44/100

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John S

Mar 23

this is a classic

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Fernando R

03/11/2024

👍 it's way better than what is going on in this world in 2024.

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05/06/2022

So worth the attacks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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11/04/2016

This is a terrible movie. Not just kind of terrible ... really godawful. There's a ton of talent involved ... Michael Lerner, Honor Blackman, Christopher Lee, Shelley Duvall, Jon Polito ... and they are all terrible in it. It's puzzling that every actor in it, including ones that are almost always good even in bad films, are just not good. Then again ... the film makes no sense, so what have they got to work with? An hour into this, I realized that even though I had been paying quite close attention, I had no idea what was going on.

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09/16/2016

Tale of The Mummy(1998) Starring: Jason Scott Lee, Louise Lombard, Sean Pertwee, Lysette Anthony, Michael Lerner, Jack Daveport, Honor Blackman, Shelly Duvall, and Christopher Lee Directed By: Russell Mulcahy Review The curse is legend. The terror is real. Hello Kiddies your pal the crypt-critic here and you know what monster I've never liked, The Mummy. Mummies have always bored me. This film is a triumph at boring me tonight. When an archaeological expedition opens an ancient Egyptian tomb, the unimaginable evil of a cursed pharaoh is unleashed. Dealing with the standard plot points of the mummified undead (curses, reincarnation, deadly linen), it manages to them so lame because the characters are boring but I will give the film two things, The Mummies wrapping in toil tree powers were cool and did a decent job at bringing the mummy to modern time. Apparently this is a straight to video horror film, well no wonder it wasn't that engaging and the CG was shit. But yet somehow it got Christopher Lee in this movie for it's opening. Tale of The Mummy doesn't help me like The Mummy monster but does let me see the potential with it's cool wrapping powers. I'm giving Tale of The Mummy a two and a half out of five.

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Frances H

10/12/2015

Elements of the better mummy movie that came out the same year, but not nearly as good. The victims being wrapped up a mummies themelessves was interesting.

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Synopsis

Fifty years ago, Sir Richard Turkel (Christopher Lee) met disaster while exploring the supposedly cursed tomb of the ancient Egyptian tyrant Talos. Now his granddaughter, archaeologist Samantha Turkel (Louise Lombard), eagerly picks up where he left off, delving into its depths to uncover Talos' sarcophagus. But, shortly after the tomb's artifacts are transferred to a London museum, a strange series of murders begins to plague the city. Baffled local detectives enlist Samantha for help.

Director: Russell Mulcahy
Producer: Jeffrey White, Romain Schroder, Silvio Muraglia
Screenwriter: Russell Mulcahy, John Esposito
Production Co: 7th Voyage, KNB EFX Group, Cine Grande Corporation
Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 7, 2017
Runtime: 1h 27m

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