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The Mummy's Kiss: 2nd Dynasty

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One look at the cover to "The Mummy's Kiss: 2nd Dynasty" should be enough to tell you that this is really more an erotic, softcore film than a horror film...not that there is anything wrong with that, however. The basic plot finds an aging museum curator Dr. Zita Furneaux played by Belinda Gavin, calling on the aid of Egyptian Goddess Nephthys to help restore her youth. She uses an amulet to control a mummy, which she uses to go out and kidnap beautiful women in order to steal their "kah" or life essence.

Basically she steals their "kah" by making love to them which climaxes (excuse the pun) in a white flash of light...the mummy's kiss...Each time she does this, she becomes more beautiful and youthful and as an added bonus, the women become her submissive love slaves. Great work if you can get it!

Gorgeous Christine Nguyen is reporter Elyse Lam who is investigating the disappearance of the women but cannot convince her skeptical editor Jack about the supernatural elements. Soon Elyse falls into the clutches of Dr. Furneaux herself.

Surprisingly, for such a low budget offering the film's technical assets are quite good. This should be no surprise since the film was written and directed by the legendary Don Glut who has been making films for over 50 years! Few directors know how to get as much out of so little as Glut does. The real attraction here are the stunning ladies that include Stacy Burke, Cindy Pucci, Lorielle New, Alisa Robinson, and twins Tanya & Tyler Starr. Glut's sexual scenes are very steamy and erotic and there was great camera work throughout the film. The meager horror elements are a mere backdrop to scads of nude women in sexy situations and I can't find much fault in that!

The performances won't garner any Oscar nominations but they are steady and capable, perhaps more capable than it has a right to be...that comes from enjoying the production and it certainly looks like all of the cast members had a good time with the film.

Extra features on the DVD include photo galleries, a making of featurette, and commentary by Glut who is simply a joy to listen to because he is so passionate about making films no matter what his budget may be.

Reviewed by Tim Janson

Basically, this one was silly as a horror flick, but surpsisingly pretty decent as erotica. The best scene involved the museum curator, Dr. Zita Furneaux (played by Belinda Gavins), right after she's sent her mummy to kidnap pretty blonde Susan (played by Stacy Burke). She hypnotizes the captive girl and then proceeds to seduce her. It was an excellent scene, with an older, dominant woman thoroughly enjoying the lovely body of a beautiful younger woman! Very nice! She kidnaps a couple of other pretty girls, as well, but that first encounter with Stacy Burke was by far the best! I kind of forget what happenes after that.

I was going to say that this reminded me of a Fred Olen Ray film and then noticed in the credits that there were thanks credited to him. So if you like his type of movies this is pretty good but with more female frontal nudity than in his films especially the lovely Christine Nguyen she plays the reporter of a low brow tabloid.]

Nothing here to stretch the old grey matter but is an enjoyable b.movie with decent production values with extras to boot.

Definitely not a family film, not much of a thriller, and yet not exactly qualified to be considered porn either. When you purchase a movie sight unseen, regardless of how many reviews you read, you realize not everybody has the same tastes in humor, erotica, politics, sports, religion, or defines effective styles of management exactly the same either. So it's a gamble, a crap shoot, like skydiving from above heavy cloud cover. Could be just about anything on the other side.
"The Mummy's Kiss" is a softcore flick from the 1970's era, back there before all of America knew the depth of corruption in Washington D.C., because there was still some innocence and naïve, Victorian prudes with enough influence to let us as a country be for the most part, sexually repressed and experience challenged; ergo, missionary position sex was pretty much the majority of opportunity for physically intimate people. In contemporary times, bestiality, S&M, B&D, and nearly tortuous kinkiness have replaced the too tame and too old fashioned softcore mentality of the 1970's era. It takes a hundred times as explicit nature subject material in today's comparative genre to have equal effect. "The Mummy's Kiss" is kept at that 40 years ago easy-on-the-eyes frontier, without the heavy exploitation.
Two gorgeous blonde twenty-something women share intimacy privately together, with sweet, delicate and beautiful expression - including Hollywood's depiction of just a caress being enough to bring a luxuriously scintillating woman nearly to climax as she unconditionally gasps in delight. Of course, next on the dessert cart is the stunning brunette's visually stimulating self-maintenance of her sumptuous mammary protuberances. Now it's time for the stuffy, backed-up Egyptian museum curator who keeps her hair in a bun to make her neophyte pagan's prayer to Isis and Osiris, asking for the ancient beauty and everlasting life granted to Egyptian Queens be shared (fast forward, fast forward) and now we see more mammary protuberances displayed in the phantom vision and magic mist. A couple of bathing pool scenes with female nudity includes a smattering of female on female frolic that almost makes you wish those women had actually attended acting school.
The story doesn't exist, the acting quality isn't even porn movie quality, you won't recognize anybody anywhere during this film not common exclusively to the porn film industry, and even though there's a foursome in this, a man is never part of the action sexually so I can't say this movie sucks, but it does lick.

I recently had the pleasure of watching the Frontline Entertainment feature, THE MUMMY'S KISS: 2ND DYNASTY. The film is written and directed by Donald F. Glut a director that many people might not recognize the name of, but definitely should! Mr. Glut has many titles under his belt, including BLOOD SCARAB, COUNTESS DRACULA'S ORGY OF BLOOD, and DINOSAUR VALLEY GIRLS just to name a few. Now, by the titles of these films, it is pretty obvious that we are not dealing with huge Hollywood produced films here. These are very small productions on very limited budgets. The difference between Mr. Glut's low budget films and other low budget films, though, is that they don't look low budget. THE MUMMY'S KISS: 2ND DYNASTY is a beautifully shot film with some great makeup/special effects. The mummy itself looks great and very gross...just like a 3000 year old mummy should!
This was a very fun movie to watch. The acting was good for the most part, and the story was a lot of fun. The actresses in the film are some of the most beautiful you will see in any film. Please be warned though, the film does contain a lot of sexual situations and nudity. In fact, if I had to find any faults with the film, it might have been that it contains a little too much nudity for a horror film, something I never thought I would say! While obviously shot quick and on a cheap budget, the film did something that some big budget Hollywood films don't do, and that is it kept me entertained the full running time. And really, that is all a good movie is supposed to do. This movie proves it doesn't take a multimillion budget to make a good movie.

If we are to be completely honest about the films we choose to see (more specifically, the reasons/motivations why we rent or buy them), then hopefully there will be less umbrage about production values or acting or writing - if true purpose of watching the movie was to see nude women in mutually erotic situations. Such was the case for selecting this film (as I suspect it is for pretty much anyone else who sees it). I had no high expectations for the acting or writing or directing or lighting or original score composed for its soundtrack, nor did I have any illusions I would be pleasantly surprised by these aspects.

That having been said, I found the movie to be modestly satisfying. There were a lot of attractive women and plenty of nudity to go with them. Christina Nguyen deserves special mention. She is quite lovely, and it is not so often one gets to sees nude curvy Asian women. It is indeed a treat! There was also plenty of girl-girl amorous encounters, although it was not very explicit and tended to resemble more of a twosome tease at a high end strip club. Still, it wasn't too bad (at the least it was better than nothing). Kylie Wyote (as she is called in this movie) did a good job with her erotic interaction with the other women.

As for the production values of this movie, they are rather modest. The locations are most likely chosen for convenience, and there is a good chance the script was tailored to them. The "special effects" will probably get enough harsh criticism that I do not need to add any coments myself. However, I have helped produce many no-budget indie films, and although this one had its limitations, I thought that they managed to get something for their pocket change. The costuming wasn't all that bad (considering). As for the acting and writing... who cares? I didn't think it would be good and didn't really pay that much attention to it, since that isn't why I or (insert your name) watched it. I got what I was looking for. As for how much I would pay to buy it, my advice would be to wait until it's a bargain on eBay or Amazon.com.

The sequel to Mummy's kiss had too much corny plots and very stupid characters. The only upside is the lesbian sex scenes. Unless you are buying it for the love scenes, don't. :(

Now this is what sexploitation is all about.

In MUMMY'S KISS: 2ND DYNASTY (Donald F. Glut, 2006), an aging museum curator (Kylie Wyote) gets spurned by two beautiful women (Stacy Burke; Cindy Pucci) and decides to extract revenge by use of an ancient spell to reanimate a Mummy from the days of the Pharoahs. She maintains this Mummy's "afterlife" by delivering to its goddess (Andrea Smith) the "kas," or life energies, of several beautiful women, starting with the two that spurned her. A plucky reporter (Christina Nguyen), looking for a story to sell to her tabloid newspaper, stumbles into this plot, and when the curator runs afoul the goddess herself, the reporter Elise (Lam) gets caught in the middle. Will anybody be able to stop Dr. Zita (Wyote) before Elise becomes a victim? That's the movie in a nutshell.

MUMMY'S KISS: 2ND DYNASTY, is a "sexploitation" film in the truest sense - it's a B movie whose primary focus is showing us beautiful women in various states of undress, and this movie has the beautiful women part in spades. Besides Nguyen, Burke, Pucci, and Andrea Smith, the biggest find for me were the Potter twins, who play handmaidens, a throwback to my favorite sexy act of the past twenty years, the now aging and defunct Morrell twins. Like the Morrells, the Potter twins are busty, spend this entire film topless, and fun to look at it. So this movie has it covered from every angle in the girl department. More importantly, its director, Donald Glut, is a veteran of the sexploitation genre, and like all of the great sexploitation filmmakers (Russ Meyer, Roger Corman, William Castle, Dave Friedman, Andy Sidaris, et. al), there is a method to his madness. There are dozens of references to old Universal and Hammer monster movies in this film, particularly the Mummy ones, appropriately enough, and in this way, the movie also pays homage to the history of its own genre. At the same time, the production design is beautiful - four color and glossy, just like I like it, with the makeup effects and wardrobe matching everything to a "t". MUMMY'S KISS: 2ND DYNASTY even has some cgi, just enough to make it a little better than a pure low budget feature. Like the best B movies, it's a lot of fun, and I really dug the Hell out of it. Definitely recommended if you're into this genre.

My only criticism would be in the story. Believe it or not, there is an art to making a sexploitation movie, and that centers around the fact that what makes a movie like this sexy is that it has enough story to keep it somewhat believeable, at least believeable enough to pay off the sex. That is to say, the difference between a sexploitation film and, say, a _Playboy_ video is that the _Playboy_ video has no story - it's just a visual depiction of beautiful women in the nude. A sexploitation movie has a story so that your imagination can somehow make the sex more real - the goal is for the audience to fantasize that this could be really happening, ideally, to them, within the context of the fantasy universe, and for this reason, I felt that the half-assed working of the supernatural part fell a bit short. Zita steals women's kas, and then she decides that she's going to defy the goddess by what? Stealing a /ton/ of kas?! It didn't make a Heullva lot of sense. A sharper story would have been to say something like she's going to turn Elise into a mummy or something, thus replacing the original Mummy and taking control of it for herself. The logical strain on the Mummy bit wears thin after a while, making the ending somewhat unsatisfying to me. I wish it had been cleaned up better. (And the stuff with the guy (Mark Bedell) being attracted to Elise to the point that his secretary (Yuu Asakura) tries to imitate her to attract him totally falls flat. When we see the secretary, it feels like he's some sleaze who keeps Asian girls around because he's a pervert, so when Elise kisses him later, it totally comes out of left field).

Still, the fact of the matter is this: Exploitation movie making, to me, is the purest kind of filmmaking there is, because it's unapologetic about what it is, and as a result, there are no restrictions on what it can do, besides the logistics of budget and whatnot. With no studio to dictate content, it's free to be as sexy or scary or ridiculous as it wants to be. And I've always felt that exploitation filmmakers were having the most fun making movies. It should come as no surprise, then, that everybody involved in this film seems to be having the time of their lives, and as a result, it's a lot of fun for us, the audience, too. MUMMY'S KISS: 2ND DYNASTY is a sexy, fun little film that will give anybody who's into this sort of thing exactly what they paid for. On a scale of one to ten, it's an eight at least. Check it out.