American Mummy

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Current Release: Yes

So apparently Perth held the world premiere of this film, a very silly but kind of fun low budget horror film about some archeology students that uncover what appears to be an Aztec mummy in the American desert. Shot in 3D no less.

After a brief prologue we're introduced to our cast of various typical sock characters that you just can't wait to see come to some sort of grizzly end. The mummy's curse is unleashed and sure enough, people start vomiting green slime and hacking off limbs with an axe. Sadly the mummy itself remains pretty inert, so it's more like a zombie drone film.

The Luna cinema's 3D capabilities aren't really that great, I don't know of any other cinemas that use the heavier and much darker active shutter 3D glasses. Add to that some inconsistant interocular distances and focal points and you get a film that can be difficult to keep your eyes focused on at late session after 2 earlier screenings that evening.

The pace was pretty slow too, I kept waiting for things to ramp up but to a climax and whilst the gore gags certainly become more outrageous they are still spread thin. I guess that usually the nature of Mummy movies, the slow moving creepers. However this film didn't have enough of an atmosphere to be creepy, it's just too silly. So whilst there's certainly some fun bits you'll have to wade through a lot of expositional stuff to get there.

The film's ending sets up possible sequels but doesn't really have a very satisfying conclusion of its own. Admittedly with the right crowd this could be fun, but we were spread pretty thin last night.