Year: 2004
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Original Title: Tomb
Director: Bruno Mattei as David Hunt
Cast: Robert Madison, Kasia Zurakowska, Gyorgy Szabados, Anna Marcello, Angela Ferlaino, Hugo Barret, David Brass
Availability: DVD
Plot:
Mexico, the ancient Mayan city of Tehuantepec, 2000 years ago, the supreme priest
Tatamackly prepare the sacrificial rite to revive the cruel goddess Coatlique. Seven virgins, naked and painted blue, have been minors by priests in the temple. But suddenly the king's guards stop the ritual. In furious battle the cruel priest loses his life.
Mexico, city of Saint Isidro, the present day:
a group of archeology students are taken by a strange woman to visit the Temple of the Goddess Coatlique. After two thousand years of waiting Tatamackly will wake up from his limbo to complete the rite of the goddess Coatlique: serve only the sacrifice of young lives by ...
Tatamackly prepare the sacrificial rite to revive the cruel goddess Coatlique. Seven virgins, naked and painted blue, have been minors by priests in the temple. But suddenly the king's guards stop the ritual. In furious battle the cruel priest loses his life.
Mexico, city of Saint Isidro, the present day:
a group of archeology students are taken by a strange woman to visit the Temple of the Goddess Coatlique. After two thousand years of waiting Tatamackly will wake up from his limbo to complete the rite of the goddess Coatlique: serve only the sacrifice of young lives by ...
Comment:
The late Bruno Mattei, who died in 2007, will forever be recognized as a master of low budget and found footage. With small sums of money could take out small film productions that winked at America's most emblazoned. In his filmography, ranging between various genres, from action erotic, but always putting a focus on sull'horror, his eternal passion.
Tomb can be easily identified as a sympathetic mockmuster the film The Mummy with Brandon Fraser as bearing a plot and an almost identical development.
shot entirely in digital, improvised with actors or fiction (except Madison) and actresses who appear to have been rejected by the casting of porn movies, this film is to operate with the trash, not so much arrogance in the Olympus for its carat weight technique ( the shot digitally would seem, even the best amateur Ford) or for special effects narrow (which still operate discreetly), but for a mix of factors such as the dialogues deficient supported by a hard film dubbing, the obvious homages / not obvious that the director sips during the development and, above all, the absolute seriousness with which this film was shot.
Mattei will always remain unforgettable in the eyes of fans of Italian genre cinema, and this outburst is the Tomb of his stubbornness that leads him to the venerable age of 70 to get still under discussion. Among the cult scenes ever forget the sequence stolen from the Rodriguez film "From Dusk Till Dawn", which emulates the bewitching comely dancer Maya Salma Hayek nelle vesti di Satanico Pandemonium; oppure l’esorcismo ad opera della stessa danzatrice davanti al quale il professore universitario esprime tutto il suo scetticismo con un diretto e sintetico “Ma va!”.
Al di là degli elementi autopunitivi a me questo film è piaciuto. Nonostante sia un prodotto post 2000 richiama molto da vicino le fascinose e tamarre produzioni ottantiane, e l’apparenza amatoriale dona carisma a quello che è l’ultimo degli horror matteiani giunti fin’ora in Italia (visto che Zombi: La Creazione e L’isola dei Morti Viventi risultano, quì da noi, ancora inediti).
Pubblicato in DVD da La Perla Nera con master decisamente buono e audio 5.1 but, unfortunately, zero extra if not the trailer.
Memorable Scene: too much, but when I saw Anna Marcello do Salma Hayek died.
Rating: 2 / 5 rating
Trash: 4 / 5
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