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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Powerful

Fantastic!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Moderately enjoyable and fairly well made, this archaeological thriller fails to capture the true bite of its theme as it deals with a curse on those invading the land of the pharaohs and breaking into their resting places. The basic story involves the expedition to these ancient pyramids where an estranged married couple (Diane Brewster and George N. Neise) argue constantly, a mysterious princess (Ziva Rodann) declares that there is a curse on them for invading this sacred land, and leader Mark Dana tries to keep everything in order. Suddenly, there's the deadly presence of a blood-thirsty creature who makes the ancient Vlad in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" look healthy, and the attacks on various members of the crew. The curse also include scorpion bites, weird sounds coming from the pharaoh's tombs and suspicious activities by members of the journey. Made just as Hammer was about to do their remake of "The Mummy", this suffers in comparison, even weak by the standards of the Universal series of the 1940's and no threat to Karloff's 1932 classic. There are a few thrills and shocking moments, but it's a standard B programmer, probably made for drive-in audiences who were not so much into plot as into the occasional fright which does occur here and there. On the scale of frights, this gets a 6, but on the scale of originality and story, merely a 2.

There is always something mysterious about searching for ancient Egyptian tombs and PHARAOH'S CURSE has everything you waited for at a Saturday matinée. Typical strange things begin to happen when a crew of archaeologists led by Professor Quentin(George N. Neise)start an excavation of an area suspect of a buried tomb. No sooner than a mummy's sarcophagus is opened, death makes its rounds. A wandering local named Simira(Ziva Rodann) forecasts the doom, but no one wants to listen seriously. A British Captain Storm(Mark Dane)has escorted Quentin's wife Sylvia(Diane Brewster)to the excavation site. Her trip doesn't appear to be for love, but her husband's situation. Creepy and predictable; but not a waste of time. Other players: Terrance De Marney, Richard Peel, Guy Prescott and Alvaro Guillot.

Pharaoh's Curse (1957) * 1/2 (out of 4) Disappointing horror film about a group of American scientist who find the tomb of Pharaoh. Of course, there are warnings not to open it but they do and this causes one member of their party to age rapidly into a mummy like creature. The film runs just 66-minutes but it feels like much longer. The mummy creature doesn't show up until after the forty-minute mark and none of the human characters are too interesting. The best scene in the movie is where the mummy gets his arm ripped off. The make up of the creature is also quite nice but I'm not sure those two things are worthy enough for you to search this film out.

I saw this film when I was just a little kid. I saw it close to the time that I saw "Curse of the Demon," and thoughout my life I always wondered if these two films were real films or some kind of nightmare I remembered that I just thought were movies. I found "Curse of The Demon" a few years ago for sale, and I was able to record "Curse of the Pharaoh" about a year ago when it was shown uncut and without commercial breaks on the Tele.Now, as a grownup, I have a little of a hard time finding just what scared me so awfully much in "Curse of the Pharaoh." I guess I was very young at the time. However, I still rate the film as better than most others rate it and have watched it about four times since I recorded it. That compares with many of the new films on DVD that I have watched on once after purchasing them. Perhaps it is just that I remember it as such a good film from when I was little, but I still enjoy it today. Many of the early "classic" horror films are not as scary as it is, and they certainly move even slower. I feel that the audience for a good mummy film was not there when it was released back in the late 50's.In closing, I can truthfully say that I enjoy an average horror film much more than an average film of any other genre. I can spend a whole evening watching horror and mystery movies. How weird?