Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy

A colleague of mine got this for free with his DVD player. Even at that price, this movie represents a shockingly bad deal.

It features tremendous acting skills - especially on the part of the female professor character, who seems to believe acting involves twitching your eyebrows in a deranged manner and nothing more.

It also boasts outstanding sets. Actually it has just the one set, which I suspect is the producer's house, but is supposed to be a university. The room in which they put the mummy on display has a fireplace and a sofa in it, for crap's sake! I won't even go into the lacklustre special effects, because awful as they may be, they outshine every other aspect of the production.

I cannot believe that this excrescence has lost its place in the Bottom 100. Get voting "1", people!

I watched this movie for free with every intention of getting a good laugh from a really bad movie, and that is exactly what I got. So, in the strictest sense, I was not disappointed. However, if I had paid money expecting to be entertained, or perhaps even frightened, I would be unconsolably livid. This movie is not only bad, it's as though a group of high school kids who knew absolutely nothing about filmmaking got together, scribbled down a script on a desk during class, got a camera and let it run, then shrugged their shoulders as their friends play acted in front of some lights. I am not kidding. My entire analogy is there on the screen, no joke. A friend of mine actually worked for the guy who produced this movie (names withheld) and informed me that this thing was shot in only four days. Sounds about right. But let's just say hypothetically, if you've got 96 hours (i.e. four days) to make a movie, AND you're getting paid for it, then why not at least try?

Who thought of this one? Granted, this direct to video movie does have a cool looking mummy but other than that, this movie is really BAD! The script is laughable to say the least. The acting is atrocious and there are maybe 6 people in the whole entire film, including extras (this is on a college campus?). There is no good gore or violence at all even though the body count is high it is all aftermath. Not even some T and A to tide us over. Just a poorly made movie with lots of idiotic 20 year old's swearing and overacting. Rent the Boris Karloff version

Really lame horror flick. No gore or nudity,(R rating must be for the teenage profanity), bad acting, dumb dialog. You know you are talking low budget when the dead characters wounds are just a splash of fake blood here and there. I would give this one minus 4 stars.In other words people should be paid to watch this.

I'm normally a fan of the cheap and cheesy drive-in genre, but after seeing this flick, I would seriously consider finding the print, setting it on fire, burying the ashes, digging them up a week later, and burning them again. This is now the most recent addition to my list of the Ten Worst Movies Of All Time.