Alla 39ª eclisse

Titolo originale: The Awakening
Regia: Mike Newell |
Anno: 1980
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Horror
Tag: egypt | queen | mummy | curse | spirit | archaeologist | evil | egyptian tomb | mummy's curse |
Cast: Charlton Heston | Susannah York | Jill Townsend | Stephanie Zimbalist | Patrick Drury | Bruce Myers | Nadim Sawalha | Ian McDiarmid | Ahmed Osman | Miriam Margolyes | Michael Mellinger | Leonard Maguire | Ishia Bennison | Madhav Sharma | Michael Halphie | Roger Kemp | Christopher Fairbank |

Un archeologo scopre che sua figlia è posseduta dallo spirito di una regina egizia. Per salvare l'umanità è costretto a distruggerla

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Directorial debut of Mike Newell. D
Many critics and readers of Alla 39ª eclisse (1980)'s source Bram Stoker novel "The Jewel of Seve [...] D
The name of the ancient Egyptian Queen was Kara. D
Back-to-back consecutive horror film for editor Terry Rawlings whose previous picture Rawlings had e [...] D
One of several supernatural films featuring Egypt and/or Archaeology released during the early 1980s [...] D
The place and year the movie is set, is Egypt, 1961. The amount of time that mummy Queen Kara had la [...] D
One of eight films scored by composer Claude Bolling in 1980. D
Jill Townsend decided to give up acting after making this film. She recalled, "I traveled to Egypt t [...] D
Charlton Heston plays an Englishman in this movie. Previously, Heston had played English characters [...] D
During filming in the Valley of the Kings, an unforecast sandstorm swept up on the location while th [...] D
Publicity for this pictured stated that it was one of the first Egyptology films to be shot mostly o [...] D
The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (Moria) website stated that the movie "probably [...] D
Ahmed Osman (Yussef) previously played a priest in Exorcismus - Cleo, la dea dell'amore (1971), anot [...] D
"Charlton Heston's only foray into the horror genre" according to "The Encyclopaedia of Horror Movie [...] D
Charlton Heston said of this film in a 1979 interview: "I've read biographies of prominent Egyptolog [...] D
One of two 1980 movies shot by veteran British cinematographer Jack Cardiff in 1980, the other was I [...] D
There was only about a six day break for Charlton Heston between the start of shooting this movie, a [...] D
The third filmed adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1903 novel "The Jewel of Seven Stars". The first was a [...] D
Lead actor Charlton Heston had previously turned down the lead role in another horror movie/supernat [...] D
The warning on Queen Kara's tomb read: "Do not approach the Nameless One lest your soul be withered. [...] D
The movie was the second theatrical filmed adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel "The Jewel of Seven Sta [...] D
Charlton Heston's character Matthew Corbeck is seen in this film over an eighteen year time span and [...] D
The filming unit shot in Luxor to capture the grandeur of the Valley of the Kings, which is consider [...] D
According to the Thorn-EMI home video sleeve notes by Jack Ibberson, "many of the scenes were shot o [...] D
One of three straight adaptations of Bram Stoker novels made and released around 1979/1980. The othe [...] D
According to Allmovie, "This film is basically Warner Brothers' attempt to jump on the big-budget ho [...] D
The film was made and released seventy-seven years after its source novel, "The Jewel of Seven Stars [...] D
Publicity for this picture stated that the world-famous Cairo Museum offered, and reportedly for the [...] D

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