7 Mummies Review
With a budget of an estimated $5-million and a solid cast of familiar faces, despite the straight-to-DVD treatment, the film can’t be all that bad right? In this case that’s correct, because thanks to the cast of interesting characters, decent make-up effects, and the story’s fast pace, the film ends up as a pretty entertaining watch. The movie follows a group of inmates who’ve recently escaped transport and are now on the run towards Mexico. That is, until they meet up with an old Apache (Danny Trejo), who recites a tale of lost gold, where the prisoner’s natural greed get the best of them and decide to skip out on crossing the border and take up on the promise of wealth and happiness. While seeking out the treasure, the inmates come across an old western town where everyone’s seemingly dressed as if they’re still living in the old west. The group stops at the tavern where they take in a couple hos and drink up some brews before continuing their path for the gold. Much like From Dusk ‘Till Dawn, the townspeople in the tavarn are revealed to be vampires and ghouls, ready to suck and devour their lives. Could this undead town be the key to the hidden treasure?
It seemed like this movie suffered from an identity crises, not knowing whether it was a vampire, zombie, or mummy movie. Regardless, it was still a fun watch, mostly due to the cast and decent production values. This is director Nick Quested’s film debut, after working with music videos, which would explain the pointless montages of our actors walking in semi-slow motion with annoying rap music playing in the background. Those particular scenes seemed to only remain in the film in an attempt to expand its 76-minute running time. Filled with clichés and predictability, the pencil-thin plot is easily forgotten when our leads are mowing down ghouls and vamps with a double-barrow shotgun. Aside from the cast, the only thing the movie had going for it was the decent action, especially when it was time to reveal the “mummies” which turned out to be karate-choppin’ robe-wearin’ priests. Yes, the mummies in this film aren’t your typical bandaged, slow-walkin’ mummies, but instead, ass-kicking martial-artists, which force our actors to use more than their guns when it came down to fighting. As dumb as that sounds, it did bump the film’s entertainment factor up another notch. The film from other movies, and doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but when it came down to pacing and entertainment, it was a fun ride.
The story is dumb and doesn’t make a lot of sense, but thanks to the cast of familiar faces and interesting characters, with some decent gore, action and make-up effects, the movie ends up being a fairly entertaining horror fair.
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