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Bookmark this pageThe Awakening (1980)
Director: Mike Newell
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From Time Out Film Guide
The opening section of this glossy, boringly shot mummy drama, loosely based on Bram Stoker's novel The Jewel of Seven Stars, is packed with cheapo Freudian parallels between an archaeologist's obsession with the tomb of an Egyptian princess, and his jealous wife's pregnancy (much intercutting between the ancient doors being thrust open and the graphic hospital birth). Though crude, this tack might have proved interesting, but the rest is part ineffective horror, part coyly underplayed element of incest as the archaeologist's daughter (aged 18) becomes the reincarnated princess and evil forces are unleashed on the world.Author: JWi
Cast & crew
Director: Mike Newell
Producer: Robert H Solo
Cast: Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist, Patrick Drury full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 105 mins
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