This movie has instant appeal if you just look at the cover. The cover has a hot, half naked woman with a severed hand on her stomach with a hot, cleavage baring woman standing over her. What’s not to like?

Based on Bram Stoker’s "Jewel of the Seven Stars", Blood From the Mummy’s Tomb starts off with a bang. We are instantly treated to the half naked woman, still breathing while getting her hand cut off by guys that look more like spacemen than pharaohs. The severed hand bares a big red rock of a ring that has what looks like stars flashing whenever chaos is about to ensue. Right off the bat it starts flashing and the spacemen start falling down dead with instant wounds to their necks. Then, years before it was seen in a hundred other horror movies, we are treated to what now is a horror cliché in seeing the hand crawl back to its owner.

Cut to modern day where Margaret Fox awakens from this "dream". Just when you start to think all of this was a load of crap stuck in to entertain us because the writer wasn’t able to come up with something creative enough that goes with the actual story, her father shows up and gives her the ring from the severed hand as a birthday gift. Soon after we are introduced to a mental patient—with a habit of acting crazy that the nurses continually talk about, apparently forgetting where they work. The mental patient ends up having a snake that was from the opening scene as well. It’s looking like the artifacts from that dig have been handed out for free—I hope they didn’t spend any money on that dig.

It turns out that behind that door Margaret was told never to go through is a basement area that her father has been using to store all the stuff from the dig. He was a genuine pack rat, with walls and all. The father falls over like he’s been possessed, blood on his neck. He’s soon placed in bed and sending messages to the daughter via nothingness. The daughter heads downstairs and ends up finding a member of the team that was part of the original expedition. He explains his creepy version of what’s going on, sending her off to gather the rest of the team which includes the mental patient we saw earlier.

While the movie starts out with promise, it flutters and bounces around with a lot of filler. Instead of something to live up to the moving severed hand, we’re treated to a stiff, fake snake and its shadow attacking people. Typically these kind of movies make up for everything by giving us top of the line nudity but this film only offers a brief glimpse of Margaret’s backside and lots of scantily clad outfits. It’s a movie that I would typically turn off after nothing happened twenty minutes in but I hung on reluctantly since I had to write this review—I regret it.