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| Director: Mike Newell
Actors: Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist, Patrick Drury
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 15167
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6302814812
UPC: 085392200634
EAN: 9786302814811
ASIN: 6302814812
Theatrical Release Date: October 1980
Release Date: December 13, 1993
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Suspenseful tale of Egyptian Magic--with a twist at the end! May 15, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A fun film with lots of emotion and plot twisting action...the final ten minutes will evoke awe.
 Awesom Mummy Movie. May 8, 2002
pick vanclieff (BUSHNELL, FLORIDA United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Awakening is A awesom movie with pleanty of chills and thrills and it holds your intreast from start to finish. Charlton Heston does a wonderful job playing Egyptologist Matthew Corbeck And Stephanie Zimbalist is great as his Daughter. Stephanie is a great actress her great acting skills go great with her Gorgeous good looks. If you want a good Mummy movie or if your just looking for a good horror movie this is the movie for you buy it you won't regret it the ending of this movie is awesom.
Eerie March 31, 2006
D. I. Shipley (KENT United Kingdom)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Awakening was the second adaptation of Bram Stoker's The Jewel of the Seven Stars. Hammer's Blood from the Mummy's Tomb being the first. Many have compared The Awakening unfavourably with the first film, a comparison that I consider to be unfair becauise they are two very different adaptations and both succeed in their own right.
Of the two films, The Awakening has by far the higher production values and benefits from its stunning Egyptian locations.
It also has a superb and eerie music score and has one of my all time favourite credit sequences, showing the Nile and the surrounding scenery. The music to this opening piece is simply sublime and sets the viewer up nicely for the rest of the film.
Charlton Heston plays an archeologist looking for a fabled lost tomb, of a nameless and apparently evil Egyptian queen. Needless to say he uncovers an ancient and vile power which starts to kill off his friends, and to threaten his daughter (played by Stephanie Zimbalist).
The film has a good narrative which is also suspenseful, as the events unfold.
Unfortunately the ending is weak and appears to be rushed. This is a great shame because otherwise the film would have been worthy of five stars. The makers would have done better to stick with a similar ending to Blood from The Mummy's Tomb.
That said, The Awakening remains a very good film and is well worth a look. I own the film on dvd and it is available in Australia on Region 4. Sound is Dolby Digital Mono. Unfortunately the picture transfer is not as good as it could have been and is little better than on vhs.
It would be nice to see a Region 1 or 2 dvd of this film, with a proper transfer and 5.1 sound. Now that really would be something.
 Awful April 29, 2000
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A low point for Heston, and horror in general. Strange concoction that doesn't work. It has the unpardonable flaw of being horribly boring and plotless. Skip it.
 'Mummy' Film Directed by Mike Newell! Now That's Something February 17, 2005
Tsuyoshi
And starring Charlton Heston! 'The Awakening' (1980) has so many potentially good elements -- look, beside Susanna York, the supports include Miriam Margolyes and Ian McDiarmid, and the camera is by veteran Jack Cardiff. Plus, the film acknowledges the cooperations from the Government of Egypt, where part of the scenes are shot. And the results are ... nothing but boring mess.
Heston's character is Matthew Corbeck, Egyptologist obssessed with the idea of the ancient Queen. As he discovers her long-hidden tomb, Corbeck's own baby is born ... how convienient! ... but the new-born girl was immediately taken away to USA, by the hand of the neglected wife. (And do you bring your wife who is pregenant, all the way to the excavating site in hot Egypt?)
Cue to the 18 years later. Professor Heston (with thick beard and black-rimmed glasses) meets his daughter again, only to find that some strange things keep on happening around them. Like curious 'accidents.' They get more and more curious as the story unfolds, so you may finally start laughing until the very unexciting, and abrupt, ending.
Now, 'The Awakening' is not scary at all, because of the actors' awful overacting. Heston et al cannot just look like 'scared' people. Their 'scared' means contorted facial expressions. And the way they speak! When they should subdue their emotions, they start to howl literally.
Lack of the story's pace is another fatal mistake, and moreover, as we do not know why we should care about the obsessive protagonist or his daughter, to whom we can never relate. People drop dead like flies, and we start wondering ... so what?
Credited as 'based on Bram Stoker's novel, 'Jewels of the Seven Stars,' but don't be fooled. The film hardly resembles the original, which is much better.
Mike Newell, who helms the fourth Harry Potter film, once did this kind of dreadful film, and this idea may be encouraging to some young filmmakers. Except that, and Jack Cardiff's beautiful photography in Egypt, you get nothing remarkable in 'The Awakening.'
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