Review of The Tomb

The Tomb (1986)
2/10
If ancient Egypt was as dumb as this film, it wouldn't have survived to see Cleopatra.
13 June 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I had a good time laughing at this supernatural adventure that was dumb and dumber long before that movie franchise uncovered the sands of silliness. Two dudes invade an ancient Egyptian tomb, bring to life the vengeful daughter of a long dead pharaoh, and her spirit manages to make it to Beverly Hills, only stopping briefly to ask for directions, turns one of the deadheads into her slave and sets out to find the stolen gems now in the hands of Cameron Mitchell.

Delicious hideous acting dominates the film with Michelle Bauer the epitome of horrible as the evil vampiress princess of the Nile. Sybil Danning is Mitchell's niece who falls for handsome Richard Hench who is researching the theft of the tomb. A cameo by John Carradine tries to explain it all. It's okay for a few giggles, but interruptions of girly shows at some L. A. dives where Bauer seeks victims really has no point other than to expose some female top anatomy. A giant bug implanted in the heart of the idiotic tomb raider is similar to the flesh eating creatures from the Mummy movies decades later. Fun hideousness at its most eye rolling.
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