Mummy’s Kiss

Rating

Director

Donald F. Glut

Screenplay

Donald F. Glut

Length

1h 28m

Starring

Ava Niche, Sasha Peralta, George Thomas, Aysia Lee, Richard Lynch, Arthur Roberts, Katie Lohmann, David Jean-Thomas, Regina Russell, Diana Espen, Rosalyn Macie, Elina Madison, Rhoda Jordan, Stan Bennett

MPAA Rating

R

Review

PREFACE:
In the early 2000s, I was writing reviews for an outfit called Apollo Guide Reviews. That website has since been closed down.

Attempting to reconstruct those reviews has been an exercise in frustration. Having sent them to Apollo Guide via email on a server I no longer have access to (and which probably doesn’t have records going back that far), my only option was to dig through The Wayback Machine to see if I could find them there. Unfortunately, while I found a number of reviews, a handful of them have disappeared into the ether. At this point, almost two decades later, it is rather unlikely that I will find them again.

Luckily, I was able to locate my original review of this particular film. Please note that I was not doing my own editing at the time, Apollo Guide was. As such, there may be more than your standard number of grammatical and spelling errors in this review. In an attempt to preserve what my style had been like back then, I am not re-editing these reviews, which are presented as-is.

REVIEW:
In The Mummy’s Kiss, the mummy of an Egyptian sorceress returns to life to seek out the body whose inhabiting soul is that of the princess for whom she died.

Mummy’s Kiss is an adult film about an ancient Egyptian lesbian affair that was stopped by the pharaoh. Fast forward to the present where archaeology professor Carter Moore (George Thomas) has decided to unveil Dr. Wallis Harwa’s (Richard Lynch) collection of artefacts, including the centuries-old sarcophagus of Hor-Shep-Sut (Ava Niche) whose aforementioned romantic escapade landed her in her current tomb. Carter’s girlfriend Ana (Sasha Peralta), Dr. Harwa’s niece, bears the ka (soul) of Princess Hat-Em-Akhet, Hor-Shep-Sut’s immortal love. Revived after her ceremonial mask is removed, Hor-Shep-Sut takes the guise of Ramsay Amun, a seductive temptress who begins undermining Carter and Ana’s relationship.

Ramsay calls upon gods Osiris (Arthur Roberts) and Isis (Katie Lohmann) to help her reclaim her vanquished love. To do this, she must locate her physical heart, taken from her body at the time of burial and imprisoned in a clay jar where it has remained ever since. Ramsay takes control of a security guard and a pair of hot-for-teacher girls who decide to get together in one of the film’s limited sex scenes.

Mummy’s Kiss writer-director Donald F. Glut goes to great pains to present a scandalous medium and give it a plot. Most adult films don’t spend much time or money investing in their plot but Glut takes considerable care in selecting a worthy, if not staid, story to act as his vessel. The period sets and costumes remain relatively faithful to the Egyptian style, but the modern fashions and locales are weak but functional.

The performances are another subject altogether. Taking their cues from classic porn stars like Marilyn Chambers, the female stars give no visible sign of talent and end up showing more breasts than a lactation training seminar. The male performances, along with refraining from showing a lot of skin, are substantially better than their female counterparts. The men never get involved sexually and are used only as eye candy or plot-driving characters.

The film tries to make itself out to be more than it really is. Mummy’s Kiss has a plot, fewer than five sex scenes and lasts a full hour and a half. Don’t forget its lack of male nudity and excellent production values. The problem is, despite the effort, the movie remains nothing more than an adult film with bad acting and a substandard plot used only to occupy its viewers between sexual encounters.

This movie is unrated, but is recommended only for mature audiences who have no desire to see a movie about Egyptian intrigue but want to see a pornographic escapade set in two bridged time periods.

Review Written

June 2, 2003