Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy
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| Directed by | David DeCoteau |
| Written by | Matthew Jason Walsh |
| Produced by | David DeCoteau Sam Irvin David Silberg |
| Starring | Jeff Peterson Trent Latta Ariauna Albright Russell Richardson Michele Nordin Brenda Blondell Michael Lutz Christopher Cullen Anton Falk |
Production companies | Azteca Catrinca S.A. Kremlin Films[2] |
| Distributed by | Amsell Entertainment |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
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| Language | English |
Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy is a 2000 American-Mexican horror film directed by David DeCoteau. Also known as Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy 2,[3] it was followed by a sequel, Ancient Evil 2: Guardian of the Underworld, released in 2005. In England, the film was the subject of a consumer complaint regarding its BBFC classification[4] which gave it a 15-rating.[5] The film was shot in Mexico in four days.[6]
Plot
[edit]Somewhere in Mexico during the summer, an ancient Aztec pyramid, dedicated to the rain god Tlaloc, is discovered. It contains numerous artifacts as well as a remarkably well-preserved mummy. All of these items are transported to a university in the United States for study and display; the university is nearly deserted except for six archeology students and their professor, Professor Cyphers.
While they are preparing the artifacts for display, one of the students, Morris stupidly steals an amulet from the mummy's wrist; he gives it to one of the other students, a beautiful blonde girl, Janine to impress her to take her on a date with him tonight and kissing each other unknown to them, Norman has secretly watching them in the brush, whom he has a crush on named Stacey.
Janine has confession to Stacey in their dorm room that Morris stole the amulet from the mummy's wrist to impress her and she knows that he was wrong to stealing the amulet for the first time, Morris and Janine went to the campus compound and Morris went to break into the kitchen to steal the beers on purpose. Don, Arlando and Norman angrily confront Morris of his stupidity behavior about the million dollar amulet from the mummy, breaking the campus compound, going to the jail for stealing, being stuck in the campus compound and everything.
Unfortunately, it turns out that another of the six students is actually a descendant of Aztec priests named Norman, and that he needs the amulet as part of a ceremony to Tlaloc. This student, Norman, resurrects the mummy and sends it to recover the amulet so that he can complete the ritual. The murderous mummy begins killing anyone in its way. The other students learn about the mummy and also discover that the planned ritual to Tlaloc could be extremely destructive. They attempt to survive the mummy's attacks and to prevent the ceremony, but one by one are killed.
Stacey saw Scott outside that professor's car was smashed and damaged on the windows at the parking lot, when the mummy kills Scott in front of her screaming, Norman wickedly dressed up as the Aztec priest to need her blood of the virgin and mummy has kidnapped the passed out Stacey, carrying her away to the museum where Norman tied her hands and feet up on the sacrificial table. Don has escaped from the mummy with his knife and learning about Norman to sacrificing Stacey as a virgin in the ritual to complete that means he's going to kill her.
Eventually, the priest-student chooses Stacey, one of the remaining female students, to be a human sacrifice to Tlaloc; the last surviving student, Don, must rush to save her and stop the ritual, smashing the amulet into pieces on the ground, killing Norman and the mummy with his own knife, free Stacey, walk away together from the museum as two last survivors and prevent the apocalypse.
Cast
[edit]- Trent Latta as Norman
- Jeff Peterson as Don
- Ariauna Albright as Stacey
- Michele Nordin as Janine (as Michelle Erickson)
- Russell Richardson as Arlando
- Michael Lutz as Morris
- Brenda Blondell as Professor Cyphers
- Christopher Cullen as Scott
- Christopher Bergschneider as The Mummy (as Anton Falk)
Production
[edit]An international co-production between The United States and Mexico, produced by the American production company Kremlin Films and the Mexican production company Azteca Catrinca S.A. Filmed in Baja California, Mexico in locations with museum and college in 1999.
References
[edit]- ^ "Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy". IMDb. Retrieved June 6, 2018.
- ^ "Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy". IMDb. Retrieved June 6, 2018.
- ^ Review of Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy 2 Retrieved July 14, 2019.
- ^ "Sex videos cause cuts surge". BBC News. May 22, 2002. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
- ^ "Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy". BBFC. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
- ^ Phil Davies Brown (July 2, 2004). "Interview with director David DeCoteau". Horror Asylum. Archived from the original on July 13, 2011. Retrieved July 14, 2019.