Verdict
Summary
A real goof of a monster mash movie done on a very low budget, The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals feels like a late-nite oddity that would’ve played on TV in the ’80s or early ’90s, and that’s not a bad thing. It’s so off-the-wall weird and fun that even my 11 year-old son watched it with me with amusement. It’s not scary, but it should appeal to the monster-movie fan in all of us.
Plot:
A mummy and a “jackal man” duke it out in Las Vegas.
Review:
A friendly conversation between colleagues at a museum where an ancient Egyptian princess entombed in a transparent sarcophagus has just arrived from a recent dig turns into an odd dare where one of the guys insists he be allowed to spend the night in the museum to see if he can get inspired to write. He’s granted the chance, and during the night he is transformed into a “jackal man” werewolf creature where he busts out of the museum and runs around Las Vegas causing mischief and mayhem. He makes it back to the museum before dawn and his friend comes back to see how he did, and the afflicted guy sort of shakes his head and says something like, “It feels like I just went to bed,” not realizing that he’s a monster. The process is repeated the next night, but things get complicated when the Egyptian princess is also revived from her thousand-year slumber (she’s been cursed by Osiris), and she, in turn, revives a mummy beside her, and the mummy lumbers around Las Vegas, clobbering people in plain sight of slot machines and car dealerships. Who can stop the mummy? The jackal man!
A real goof of a monster mash movie done on a very low budget, The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals feels like a late-nite oddity that would’ve played on TV in the ’80s or early ’90s, and that’s not a bad thing. It’s so off-the-wall weird and fun that even my 11 year-old son watched it with me with amusement. It’s not scary, but it should appeal to the monster-movie fan in all of us. Some of the make-up effects are decent, but there are obvious, glaring flaws in some of them, but who cares? I had fun. From director Oliver Drake.
Leave it to Severin to bring a movie such as The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals to Blu-ray in a sweet, 4K scan that restores every detail in a widescreen transfer. It’s a fun movie to play in the background of a Halloween party, for certain. Special features include interviews, a commentary, and a bonus feature: the X-rated film from Oliver Drake Angelica, The Young Vixen, which is presented in a very scratchy, but still watchable transfer.
