Review: Legion of the Dead (2005)

The wikipedia article for "legion" discusses varying numbers of soldiers that make up a legion, with 1000 being the smallest and 10000 the largest. The Asylum's Legion of the Dead makes due with about 6 mummies and 1 queen mummy. Hardly a legion. Hardly worth my time.

A team of archaeologists find an Egyptian tomb in a California desert. The tomb looks like an egyptologist's clubhouse, rather than an ancient burial chamber. They accidently wake up the naked and hot queen mummy Anna Tet, and she kills a bunch of people by turning their faces all melty and gooey with her hands, her breath, and her eyes. Towards the end, she resurrects her legion of 6, and the movie comes to a climax in a battle between the the girl mummy and the girl scientist.

Save your time and your mummy. Don't be lured into this one by the promise of seeing Bruce Boxleitner and Zach Galligan: it looks like their scenes were shot in about a day. Don't be lured in by the promise of the hot mummy unless yer really desperate. And more than anything, don't be lured in by the promise of a legion of the dead.