La tomba

Tomb, The (2004)

BOMB (out of 4)

Before his recent death, Italian hackmaster Bruno Mattai was able to have a rather strong comeback after several years in retirement. This guy is either hated as a hack or loved as an Ed Wood type filmmaker but I don't see how anyone could enjoy this film. The film deals with a group of scientists who travel to Mexico to find the tomb of an evil King buried hundreds of years before. When they find the tomb, led by a witch, they discover that a mummy is alive and ready to kill them. This extremely low budget film was shot on a Digital camera so that there doesn't work with me from the start. I was hoping Mattai would get back to his so bad it's good film-making style but that never happens and by the ten minute mark I was wanting to turn this thing off. Needless to say but the performances are all horrid and Mattai still doesn't know how to make a film move at a good pace. This one here goes very slowly with nothing happening for it. As with other Mattai films, this one here rips off countless other films including lifted scenes from Army of Darkness and a scene for scene remake of the dance sequence in From Dusk Till Dawn.