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DVD : The Eternal: Kiss of the MummyIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Rachel O'Rourke, Lois Smith, Alison Elliott, Jared Harris, Sinead Dolan directed by: Michael Almereyda  List Price: $14.98 Amazon.com's Price: $13.49 You Save: $1.49 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 9781573626095 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 1573626090 Label: Lions Gate Manufacturer: Lions Gate Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: Lions Gate Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 20, 1999 Running Time: 95 minutes Studio: Lions Gate Theatrical Release Date: 1998 Sales Rank: 88414 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Michael Almereyda, whose unusual career finds him bouncing between personal experimental movies and genre pictures, is back in commercial territory with the supernatural thriller The Eternal, which was given the opportunistic yet appropriate subtitle Kiss of the Mummy to cash in on the success of 1999's The Mummy. Alison Elliot and Jared Harris star as an alcoholic American couple who travel to Scotland with their son so he can meet his grandmother and, ostensibly, so they can dry out. ("Ale isn't like alcohol. It's like food," she explains to her dubious son as she immediately violates her vow to quit drinking.) Unfortunately, they walk in on their crazed uncle (Christopher Walken), who is in the midst of reviving a centuries-old Druid witch--who looks just like Alison Elliot! Almereyda manages to create some genuinely spooky moments (the underwater photography in particular takes on a dreamy beauty), but much of the film has a slapdash quality, from clumsy special effects to awkward performances. The exception is Elliot, excellent as usual in the double role and conveying more with her eyes alone than many actors can manage with words, while Jared Harris offers a dead-on Walken impression in a humorous interlude. It's a gorgeous film with a marvelously eerie soundtrack, but the story is too slight to carry the tension through to the end. --Sean Axmaker Average Rating:
 Rating: - Great potential that is never fully realized...I really wish that Michael Almereyda had kept the alternate title for this movie, which was Trance. The Eternal: Kiss of the Mummy is a terrible title, and the cover graphics make it look like any other lame horror flick. But it's not. The Eternal is traditional mummy/haunted house/zombie movie, but with interesting details. A woman who emigrated from Ireland at the age of 16 returns to her native country with her Irish-American husband (I think; Jared Harris looks like a short version ... Read More Rating:  - whose your mummy?this one gave me a sort of chill down the center of my spine. Jared Harris(Igby Goes Down), his wife played superbly by Allison Elliott(dont know whatelse shes played in) and their son go for a vaction in Scotland to where Elliott used to grow up. Their they meet Joe, a guy who Elliott loved back then and her relatives, a eeirly Lois Smith(Minority Report) and a ever so mad frankensteinish Christopher Walken(Catch Me If You Can, Envy). Walken brings Elliott to the basement where a centuries old corpse ... Read More Rating: - Nothing to really brag aboutEternal is an OK horror film. The idea is that Nora and her Husband Jim, along with their son Jim, travel to Ireland to visit her ailing grandmother. While there she stays with her Uncle Bill (Christopher Walken) who seems to be as ecentric and insane as he described her Grandmother. FOund this 2000 year old druid witch mummy in the bog and seems to be trying to ressurect her. HE succeeds and he dies. From there the witch is trying to fuse with Nora and live her life out again for another 100 years ... Read More Rating:  - Not a horror movieThis is not really a horror movie, more of a psychological thriller. In fact, it's not even all that heart-pumping suspenseful. Rather, it has a cool rhythm and sense of inevitability and growing dread. The camerawork is beautiful, Almereyda's direction is deliberately choppy to give you a sense of what the usually drunk) characters are feeling. The soundtrack is great. I loved this movie, which is why I went out and bought the DVD. I thought it was lovely and uplifting, ... Read More Rating: - Soundtrack InfoFor anyone wondering about the origins of the first track of this film, it's a song titled "Rockets" by Cat Power. I've always loved this song and was quite surprised to hear it in a film. This movie surprised me quite a bit. Much better than I expected, especially considering the horrible DVD cover that the studio gave it. Browse for similar items by category:
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