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Awful movie!

posted 12 years ago by hannahp1
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I bought this junk for 18 dollars at Amazon.com thinking it would be a guilty pleasure from 1980-I knew it was going to be cheesy, which it was, but it was also boring. Zimbalist was possessed? She did a horrible job of acting it. Plus the ending which just ends abruptly was terrible.

Who edited this movie? It was like they had a cookie cutter to put this movie together. It could not have been easy with the awful direction and terible acting.

Miss at all costs! Dont buy-if you must see it rent it or watch on cable. Watch in bed-it will put you right to sleep!

3 out of 10.

[–] tali1 11 years ago

editing , direction and acting were all okay i found.
Sadly it was veerrrry booooring
2/10

Hey Witchdoctor, give us the magic words.
ooh ee ooh ah ah, ting tang wallawallabingba

[–] wjb7221975 9 years ago

I saw it for the first time on cable around 1987. I would have been about 12. I enjoyed it then and still do. To each their own. I'm sorry you feel that you wasted $18. Zimbalist wasn't fully possessed/"awakened" until the end.

[–] Stratego (29170) 6 years ago

A boring ass movie with a lame ass ending.

[–] JamesByrne (5) 6 years ago

Why do you regard THE AWAKENING as boring?
It's a wonderful movie!

[–] Stratego (29170) 6 years ago

Yes, you've opened my eyes! How could I've been so foolish!

[–] JamesByrne (5) 6 years ago

Its easily the best movie about Egyptology .... so I'm pleased that your eyes are now open to its terrific presence!

[–] JamesByrne (5) 6 years ago

Stratego, you didn't by chance work as the film critic for the "Philadelphia Enquirer" on 31 October 1980 did you?
THE AWAKENING. - Unrelieved drivel casting Charlton Heston as an Egyptologist who unleashes the curse of a mummy, or more accurately, a mummy-to-be since the victim is his pregnant wife. For Heston, a grave embarrassment, and for anyone unfortunate enough to see it, the film is as much fun as an embalmment.

[–] Stratego (29170) 6 years ago

Well, if that wasn't written by me, then it has to be someone as genius!