The main problem with the film is the dullness of the script and the absence of pace and urgency in the narrative. Heston and York act decently, but the material is hardly challenging. Jack Cardiff tremendous photography provides the film with its sole merit, bringing to life the glorious Egyptian vistas in all their sun drenched beauty. By the end, daddy Heston (just like Gregory Peck in The Omen) is convinced that his little girl is demonic and attempts to destroy her. Nor do you have to be particularly bright to guess that as she grows into a teenager, she begins to demonstrate worryingly dangerous behaviour. You don't have to be a detective to figure out that the spirit of the long-dead evil queen possesses his daughter. He finds it, but at the very same moment his wife is busy giving birth to a baby daughter. The story takes its inspiration from a largely forgotten Bram Stoker novel and casts Heston as an obsessive archaeologist searching for the tomb of an evil Egyptian queen. It's sad to find a legendary actor like Charlton Heston working on a tenth rate horror film like this.
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