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Professor Langley (Robert Madison) takes a bunch of his college
students to Mexico to look for a lost Mayan temple - and thanks to their
mysterious and possibly sinister guide Bruha (Anna Marcello), they find
it, too. However, Bruha fails to tell them the dark past of the temple:
2000 years ago, a Mayan high priest (Hugo Barret) wanted to gain
immortality via a brutal ritual here, but the ritual was interrupted
before it could be completed, and the high priest was mummified and
entombed as a punishment. Thing is, one of Langley's students, Viola
(Kasia Zurakowska) is the reincarnation of what would have been the high
priest's final sacrifice ... Langley's students are of course dumb as
shit, with nothing but beer, sex, and how to play pranks on the others on
their mind (in other the world, genre-typical cannon-fodder), so it's an
easy thing for Bruha to lure them away one after the other to kill them,
which somehow helps to reanimate the mummy of the high priest. Finally,
the high priest is up to full force again, and he immediately continues
the sacrificial cereemony to gain himself immortality. Now by that time
all of Langley's students but Viola are already dead, and Viola is laid
out on the high priest's sacrificial table, but Langley's still alive, and
he beats up Bruja but good before going after the high priest and giving
him a beating as well. Then the temple starts to crumble, and the high
priest falls into a pit that leads right to hell. Langley and Viola make
it out though - but is Viola already possessed ... Bruno Mattei
isn't exactly the man who enjoys the best of reputations in the horror
community (and that's putting it mildly), but at times, he was able to
direct a quite decent horror flick ... this however was not one of these
times. Basically, The Tomb is a cash-in on Stephen Sommers' The
Mummy and its sequels that also throws elements from Karl Freund's
original Mummy starring Boris
Karloff and scenes copied from films like The
Exorcist and From Dusk
'till Dawn into the mix while making sure the whole thing never
amounts to anything more than a brainless teen slasher, plotwise. The
outcome is pretty bad and not at all helped by a below-average ensemble
and a director who just doesn't seem to get a proper handle on his story. To
put it bluntly, a film that's certainly not worth your time and money!
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