Directed by Antony Balch; Odd, experimental...it’s bad. A Mummy hosts the movie’s proceedings which tries to be scary but becomes unintentionally funny when you realize the voice of the narrator and the one shown mummy are one of the same. All that’s left is the viewer watching an actor covered in bandages, gnawing out mouth movements while a detached voice just blahs away. The “horror” moments do remind one of lesser Amicus and Hammer films but this project wastes time trying to be humorous when it is painfully unfunny, unless it’s unintentionally doing so. The many different vignettes and tones do not work as a complete film. This reviewer fell asleep twice trying to get through this mess (really!). In comparison, the Bizarre DVD offers two important shorts (Towers Open Fire and The Cut-Ups) by the same director with William S. Burroughs.
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