I rented this film out of curiosity. The cover shows a female mummy and it’s subtitled Resurrection (which is kind of in a mummy’s job description, right?) so I was genuinely wondering if this was meant to be a mockbuster of the Tom Cruise Mummy movie. But who would try to sell a 2023 movie based on a forgotten 2017 dud?

So tell me if you’ve heard this one before: an Egyptologist uncovers a cursed sarcophagus with the mummy of an ancient Egyptian princess. The rest is details.

Yeah, this is a bad movie but it has… qualities. I was genuinely surprised at how decent the acting was. The male and female leads even have a sweet little romance subplot. Unfortunately, one of the actors sounds exactly like Garth Marenghi (author, dream-weaver, visionary… plus actor). The sets are minimalist but decent and somehow both flat and atmospheric at the same time. It’s kind of perplexing – it’s obviously budget-restrained but the atmosphere isn’t half bad.

How about that mummy? Sure would be nice if she showed up in the movie, right? But, no, this no budget mummy film can’t even afford a mummy… and how hard is it to slap some bandages on an actress and call it a day?

Most of the film’s short runtime is focused on chit-chat, not mummy scares. Like it’s based on a stage play only the janitor has ever seen in passing. And most of that dialog is boring. So you wind up waiting for the mummy to get around to resurrecting while listening to competent actors tell a dull story.

Not a good movie and not even a good enough bad movie to enjoy ironically. But not nearly as terrible as it could have been. But also boring enough that even the decent actors can’t get a break. If you ever happen to stumble upon this flick unexpectedly, treat it like the mummy’s curse it purports to be about and keep on walking.

Score: 58