Product Description

Great Britain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: English archaeologist Matthew Corbeck (played by the emphatically-American Charlton Heston) undertakes an expedition to find the tomb of the Egyptian princess Kara, despite his awareness of a nefarious curse that is said to befall anyone who disturbs the tomb. Eighteen years after Corbeck's discovery of the burial site, his teenage daughter (who was born at the very moment of the tomb's violation) begins to behave strangely. Turns out she's been possessed by Kara's malevolent spirit, carrying out the princess's revenge by causing several deaths and developing a less-than-healthy obsession with Daddy. Based very loosely on Bram Stoker's novel The Jewel of Seven Stars (itself the inspiration for Hammer's superior Blood from the Mummy's Tomb), this is basically Warner Brothers' attempt to jump on the big-budget horror bandwagon in the wake of The Omen's staggering success. The result is a good-looking but artistically hollow film -- with elaborate sets, lush cinematography and a sweeping musical score, but little in the way of logic or suspense.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #158930 in DVD
• Formats: Import, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 95 minutes

Features

• THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER

Customer Reviews

This version is widescreen (1.85)
I'm not "disgruntled" about this product (that was left over from a previous badmouth review), but I find no way in these damn blanks to change my tag to my real name or to a positive tag like "pleased" -- which I most certainly am.

Format information isn't included among the specs shown above, so I'll share it with you. The original film has been faithfully reproduced on DVD in its widescreen 1.85 format, even though the jewel box itself says, falsely, that it's FULL screen "1.33.".

One way that the DVD COULD have been improved was to add English subtitles, especially for some of the toss-off remarks by Susannah York, which are garbled, lightning-quick, and drowned out by background noise (e.g. a desert jeep).

Whether you're a ghost-story aficionado or not (I most certainly am not), this DVD is a pleasure drench, watching the desert-at-sundown cinematography and soaking up Claude Bolling's luscious score and drinking in Stephanie Zimbalist's Egyptic eye shadow and viperous facial expression in that climactic final scene. And all of this in widescreen. (The DVD's available only in PAL, so buy one of these all-region players for $100 and enjoy.)