Isis Rising: Curse of the Lady Mummy (2013) User Reviews

Don't believe the score on here.

[phantasmda · 1/10 · 15 August 2013]

22 votes and a 6.3 - Most of which I'm guessing are connected to the films production in some way. The acting is of the worst I have ever seen in a supposed horror film, the story is OK but is so poorly executed and boring that it's hard to stay interested in what's going on. I found myself pottering about and doing other things while it was playing because I was so utterly bored. The effects (What few there are), would make the Asylum blush in embarrassment.

This is a terrible, zero budget and completely boring film with absolutely no redeeming features. The acting, camera work, music, direction and SFX are bottom of the barrel stuff.

Avoid at all costs. 1/10

To call it a "Movie" is an insult to actual movies, good AND bad.

[lordplayboyman · 1/10 · 15 August 2013]

This Movie has absolutely ONE THING going for it: Priya Rai.

The acting in this movie is terrible: no skill or craft at all. Troma Films have better actors than this drivel. The ONLY exception is Priya Rai.

For those of you who might recognize that name, she used to be a adult film star, and recently retired from porn to do more non-adult films - SHE made more of an effort than anyone in the film to act and didn't look too cheesy doing so in the process.

Since this is her first non-adult film, I'll go easy on her, and it's the only reason I give this movie a 1-star - that star is for her. Even great actors started from the bottom.

Beyond that: there is nothing else going for this film. There is no need to give you any spoiler warnings, because the bad acting, bad "Sound effects", poor lighting, and abysmal "Special Effects" completely make you lose interest in the entire film.

Watch the film to see Priya Rai in a very tight "outfit" for a "mummy", and as soon as you do, return the movie back to the video store, and ask for your money back.

Talk about disappointment!

[[e-mail] · 1/10 · 15 August 2013]

Ms. Rai appears on screen for less than 10 minutes, there isn't even any real nudity! In the first scene her brazier is painted on, but that's as close as it gets. There's some relatively good looking women, but they are not interesting characters nor do they "keep it interesting" in other ways. Don't even fast forward through this one looking for the good part, because there isn't one. The crappy, "serious acting" Sasha Grey vehicles were better than this. Ms. Rai could have a very lucrative career as an executive in the field that made her wealthy and famous. Why she feels the need to release something like that that no one is particularly interested in and that makes her look worse than she than she did in her previous career, as she was quite well suited for and talented at it, is beyond me.

Isis Rising Curse of the Lady Mummy: Painful viewing

[Platypuschow · 2/10 · 27 August 2017]

With a title that includes Lady Mummy you knew this wasn't going to be award winning stuff and that assumption is somewhat of an understatement.

With a porn star antagonist, a cast with such little talent it feels like you're watching a 3rd grade nativity play and sfx done by monkeys there really isn't much going on here in Isis Rising.

Considering the titular character is a porn star the movie doesn't even have anything in the way of T&A which was surprising.

Cringe inducing "Horror" at it's worst, no consistency, poorly made and with no redeeming features.

The Good:

I'll get back to you on that one

The Bad:

The acting, especially Priya Rai

The awful sfx

For a mummy movie, it was frightfully devoid of mummies...

[paul_haakonsen · 2/10 · 14 September 2013]

Wow. Just wow. This movie was awful in every aspect possible.

So where to start?

Well, lets just start with the storyline. "Isis Rising: Curse of the Lady Mummy" is about an ancient mummy brought to life, the mummy of Isis, a wicked sorceress of the black arts. A group of young students, led by their professor and a historian of ancient Egyptian lore is spending a night in a museum to study a recent donation of Egyptian artifacts that have been donated to the museum. In their reckless stupor, the young teens accidentally awakens Isis from her cursed slumber.

There are so many plot holes and errors to this movie that it is just gruesome to behold. For starters, why would a group of college student be granted unsupervised access to priceless Egyptian artifacts in relations to their studies? And one thing that irritated me beyond mortal comprehension was why would Isis's spells be written in perfect English and why did she herself speak perfect English? She was from ancient Egypt for the love of all that is unholy. And while we are on the topic of spells, that book of spells that she wrote was in mint condition and perfectly bound like a proper library book! It was just so epically lame.

Then lets move on to the acting, or what was meant to resemble acting. It was amazing how an entire cast of actors and actresses could muster such a wooden performance individually and together in unison. It was hard to buy into, because it was as if the actors and actresses themselves didn't even buy into the movie.

The CGI effects were so poor that even SyFy Channel and The Asylum would have a field day with them.

And the sets looked like they were made in the local high school as part of a wood shop project. And it really made the movie become even harder to take serious and buy into.

Lets stop for awhile and look at the title, "Isis Rising: Curse of the Lady Mummy". Isis Rising? Well, that part I can understand, but Curse of the Lady Mummy, that part doesn't sit well with me. First of all, she wasn't mummified, she was just entombed in a sarcophagus without the proper ritual of mummification, so she is NOT a mummy!

"Isis Rising: Curse of the Lady Mummy" is a shameful insult to just about every mummy movie ever made, and it is a wonder that I made it through to the end. I guess it was a bizarre lust to see just what epic fail thing would turn up next on the screen that kept me glued to the seat, because it sure wasn't the story, the acting, the effects, or anything else for that matter.

Horrible Beyond Words...

[ehari · 1/10 · 4 December 2014]

Dear God... this is one of the worst things that I have ever watched. Everything about this movie is awful. Everything. I am not exaggerating in the slightest. I'm beyond words, actually. There's so much wrong with this, that there's nowhere I can begin. Just please. Please. Please for the love of humanity, do everything possible to avoid this garbage. The beginning so horrible, that I thought, "Well, it can't get any worst than this..." I was wrong. The graphics are horrible. My three year old makes better effects with crayons. The director/writer/actors/editors, obviously have no shame... by releasing this madness unto the public, it proves that anyone will do anything to make a buck. There are no mummies. There are no actors that deliver any good lines. The script is horribly written. This is just awful in every way imaginable.

It was so bad that....

[rpfangirl2011 · 1/10 · 24 September 2013]

Previous reviewers pretty much summed up the plot so I:

a)Wont bother and b)actually fast forwarded though most of the film c)Had to stop the parts I did watch to wipe away my tears of laughter

The ONLY person that should ever be re-hired is the special effects guy and that's it. The characters were weak, shallow and predictable. The writer/director, please don't quit your day job. The props people, really the book of the UN-dead was bound and the Egyptian hieroglyphics looked like the ones I wrote when I was nine; mine were better by the way.

How did this film ever see the light of day I'll never know but do yourself a favor and don't ever watch it.

When Student Films go horribly wrong

[JoeB131 · 1/10 · 8 May 2014]

This had all the markings of a student film.

So they hired an over the hill adult film star, and when she realized that she had to leave her clothes on and actually act, probably was in a bit of a shock.

SO a bunch of students are trapped in a museum with a resurrected mummy who takes over bodies when acting is required. Or something. I'm really not sure if the producers knew what they were doing, because you have these long sequences where the would-be victims are going through long discussions about their college relationship angst before the mummy mercifully kills them.

The one nice thing I can say is that some of the museum scenes look like they were shot in an actual museum. I'm guessing one in some backwater down that gets almost no visitors, and were happy to rent out some rooms for a day or two for locations shoots.

Great...Another one of those films

[angiris · 2/10 · 15 September 2013]

This is what porn film looks like...only without the porn...The acting is terrible and pointless...The music couldn't be worse...techno...super aggressive techno even.....really!

I'm used to seeing this in adult films where all this crap eventually leads to SOMETHING! But this here leads to nothing at all except for ...I don't know... a really really bad history lesson.

For the love of god... They even animated the smoke that comes out of their mouths when they smoke...The effects are dreadful and clear evidence of a VERY low budget or simply no innovation.

I've seen college kids during drama classes perform better than what I've seen here...Jeezzzz! This is not what you would consider your ordinary film... It's just an epic amateur compilation of lame footage with beautiful women... Your average adult film simply without any action.

I don't recommend anyone watching this unless you wanna see Priya Rai performing in a different way... There is simply nothing else to come for.

SOMEONE LET HER OUT

[nogodnomasters · 1/10 · 10 May 2019]

The story introduces the myth of Isis, Osiris, and Set and claims it is real. A group of college students accidentally revives Isis and some of them get their careers ended in the process. The acting and script is porn quality bad. Indeed, it almost appears as they wrote this to be a soft core porn movie but then couldn't afford the actresses.

Very bad. Avoid at all cost.

Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, Nudity? Isis with painted on top?

Great work

[dragonfly-758-358120 · 8/10 · 10 January 2014]

I really enjoyed this movie. For a lower-budget movie, it was very well done. The acting was great and the camera work, lighting and sound were all very good.

It kept me on my toes as to who was going to die and who was going to live. The storyline was great and to have a female mummy vs. male was refreshing.

I thought there was just enough drama and sex to keep the viewer interested but was thankful that there was not too much swearing and the sex parts left a lot up to the viewers imagination. It was tastefully done and well written.

A somewhat watchable indie mummy effort

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 6/10 · 6 April 2024]

Trying to conduct their studies, a group of students trying to conduct a study on ancient Egyptian artifacts find themselves accidentally resurrecting a powerful mummy queen inside the museum who begins a rampage in the museum to bring her dead lover back to life forcing them to stop her.

This was a decent enough if troubling genre effort. Among the better features here is the solid and worthwhile storyline that the main feature revolves around. This idea of the human form of the mummy carrying on her affair and trying to stay involved with him through death which is what the group uncovers as a result of their studies at the site creates a worthwhile form of motivation to bring the figure back to life and carry out its plans. With this servicing well enough for introducing the rampage which has a nice bit of action here with the discovery of the bodies left around the site and leading to the realization that they're trapped inside, this produces a solid enough bit of action as well as some bloody gore for these bodies to give everything some fun in this section with the increasingly paranoid group trying to find out what's going on and get a way out. That all gives everything a bit of fun to have for its positives even though there are some issues holding this one down. One of the main issues with the film is the generally lackadaisical pacing that renders a lot of what's going on here completely uninteresting in the slightest. Far too much of the first half consists of the unusually inappropriate class of students sent to study genuine Egyptian artifacts at a museum without proper supervision or context causes this to stumble along quite lethargically. Not only is the somewhat worthwhile story so lazily constructed that it's filled with plot holes and logic gaps about what they're there, but the whole idea of a group of college-level grad students acting as immaturely as they are regarding the sacredness of the situation and hurling grade-school insults at each other sticks out immensely as not being truly appropriate for this type of film. Moreover, this leaves so little of the film to concentrate on the rampage that it takes forever to get the creature resurrected that it can get boring waiting for something to happen with all this going on instead. The other real issue to contend with is the rather underwhelming special effects featured here which really highlight how cheap this one really is. The general look and feel of the museum basement where most of the action takes place is a prime example with the majority of the scenes featuring a flimsy background so fake it shakes at several points where characters touch it accidentally ruining the illusion significantly. That the mummy is a human figure not even wrapped in bandages is a grave mistake and a bizarre body-hopping possession power is added to make some form of the human figure to fight when it gets to be involved. That carries over to the rather obvious CGI effects ranging from everything including smoke rings being blown, the special demonstrations of the black magic being utilized, or just enhancing the powers of the mummy which are so silly-looking it looks incredibly goofy and cheap. It's all enough to lower this one overall.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

Terrible

[Uriah43 · 1/10 · 2 July 2019]

This film begins with an Egyptian pharaoh named "Osiris" (Cameron Tevis) being killed and subsequently dismembered by his brother "Set" (Wilman Vergara Jr.) who covets the kingdom and his brother's wife "Isis" (Priya Rai). What Set doesn't count on, however, is her complete rejection of him. Neither does he fully grasp her powers as a sorcereress and when he then discovers that she plans on resurrecting Osiris he kills her as well. The scene then shift to the present with a small group of college students assembling in a museum to study some ancient Egyptian relics. Being quite obnoxious, some of them decide to inhale some incense they find not realizing that it is used for black magic ceremonies. Meanwhile, in another room, another student named "Amy" (Aria Song) just happens to be read aloud some hyrogliphics without realizing that these very words are necessary to resurrect to bring Isis back from the dead. Needless to say, things take a definite turn for the worse for everyone involved from that point on. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was an ultra low-budget production which suffered badly as a result. Although Seth Ganrud (as "Dr. Nasir") and the aforementioned Aria Song performed well enough, the bad sets, cheap props and elementary scripts had an effect which made it difficult for anybody to really showcase whatever talent they had and doomed this film from the very beginning. That being said, the bottom line is that this turned out to be an awful movie and I have no choice but to rate it accordingly.

I had fun. Kinda. Let me explain...

[daniel-mannouch · 2/10 · 9 August 2020]

Otherwise known as Land of the Pharaohs in the UK, and also starring and being co-produced by very handsome hardcore porn star Priya Rai, Land of the Pharaohs has only two really good things about it, and you probably already know what they are. Rai, playing Isis, is very hot in this, but her acting, ah not so much. Not laughably terrible, just meh. No fear though, this film displays plenty of cinema terriblé to keep the entertainment value surprisingly consistent.

Our special experience starts off in the temple of Quake running on Windows XP with Isis and the other guy i wasn't into kissing and doing some incest stuff. Then, some guy with a Jesus tattoo on his shoulder dismembers Isis' brofriend with all the power of a two second cutaway and we are only six minutes into this.

The rest of the film plays out like a slasher film combined with a mummy film.

The setting is a utility room in an Arizona museum.

The cast is every slasher stereotype in the book, half-assedly realised by their greenhorn cast.

The murder set pieces were created by M.S Paint, a guy who never seems to be out of work.

This is an exceptionally cheap and amateurish production which makes The Asylum look like Universal Pictures, looking like a wood rocket film and nudity is severely lacking. And to be a coomer again about it, what little we do get is quite exceptional. Who cares though, all but three minutes of this film is just a nothing burger. The production quality is so low, it achieves an intimate atmosphere in the way Cassevete's film's tended to do.

However, unlike Cassevete's films, the acting is crap and the storytelling is threadbare to say the least and serves only to build up the mystic of Priya Rai's Isis. Again, very sexy, very fitting for the role, but she can't act her way out of a paper bag and regardless, all the time spent telling Isis' story was time that could have been spent, oh i don't know, telling this film's story!

What else is there to talk about? The 2003 rendering, the literal cardboard sets, oh and my old friend of course, long, awkward shots of people talking within interiors no larger than my bedroom. Land of the Pharaohs is good for those who actively seek out the worst of what direct to dvd cinema has to offer. It's frugal, it's boring, it's technically inept, and ultimately, retains a degree of psychotronic charm. If only there was only more softcore nudity, I would feel more comfortable recommending this. but the awful pacing wins out on this one and for certain damns this film to the realms of obscurity.

"ISIS Rising" (2013) might be the stupidest documentary ever.

[ericrnolan · 1/10 · 3 September 2015]

"ISIS Rising" (2013) is a film with no educational value, and I can't believe anyone could find it helpful in understanding the terrifying events connected with ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Throughout this film's entire running length, it yields no genuine insight into the international crisis. Indeed, it doesn't even provide the viewer with any information whatsoever! I'd rate it at a 0 out of 10.

The filmmakers here made a truly bizarre major creative decision in trying to inform the viewer via … metaphor? We are actually introduced early on to a character name "ISIS." She is, inexplicably, a buxom female mummy. No … you read that right. ISIS is represented by a major character who is a big-bosomed, female mummy. She fights a male mummy (presumably representing Western democracies?!). In fact, the entire film plays out like a low- budget pageant set in ancient Egypt. Why was that choice made? How does the pantheon of ancient Egyptian Gods relate to radical Islam in the modern world? Isn't that a bit like employing Roman mythology as a metaphor for contemporary Christianity, Judaism, or another modern religion?

There is a preponderance of breasts. What did they symbolize? Iraq and Syria? When ISIS the lady mummy clutches her breasts, does that represent the terrorist army clutching the two countries in its grip? And what about the barely dressed male mummy? Should I be offended that the United States and her allies are represented by some guy's giant schvantz?

Skip this.

Birdemic in Egypt

[panfan-241-593518 · 1/10 · 16 March 2022]

Bad to the Bone Budget is 10$ for flashlights. Actors are awful. I never expert to see something as Bad as Trolls 2. Watch only if You must because You never saw worse movie in whole Galaxy.

Movie is worse.

[mrpattinson-07689 · 1/10 · 19 September 2021]

Don't watch it. Trust me it's a fraud. They wants you to believe there's something exciting scenes because of priya rai is in the movie but don't fall for that, there's nothing that interests you. Horrible movie!!