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Synopsis: After a riot breaks out in Cairo, Egypt in 1902, a team of British soldiers led by Captain Storm is tasked with retrieving a group of archaeologists from the Valley of the Kings while being accompanied by the American wife of one of the men they are to rescue. They meet a strange woman, Simira, in the middle of the desert. She claims her brother is helping the archaeological team and as she follows them to the dig site, she warns them of the urgency of getting there before a sarcophagus is opened. Storm ignores her and when they arrive at the dig site too late, find their lives in danger from a reincarnated mummy. Who's in it? The movie stars Mark Dana , Ziva Rodann , Diane Brewster , George N. Neise and Alvaro Guillot. Review: I was flipping through movies on Amazon Prime Video last night and when I came across Pharaoh's Curse , decided to add it to my list. I wound up watching it early this morning and while I normally enjoy movies from this genre, it wasn't...

Synopsis: A series of accidents begins to plague the Norris Trucking Company, prompting an investigation when the company's heiress, Henrietta Denton, is killed in one of them. When there is another death, truck driver Hank Wilson, the man who found and tried to save Henrietta, comes under suspicion and the only way he can avoid a murder charge is finding out the truth. Who's in it? The movie stars Robert Lowery , Pamela Blake , Clem Bevans , Michael Whalen and Lyle Talbot. Review: I came across Highway 13 on Amazon Prime Video last night and decided to add it to my list for this morning. It seemed like an intriguing mystery and had a handful of actors that I recognized. After seeing it, I thought it was a good choice. The various truck accidents were clearly not just accidents because there were just too many of them. However, the motive for wrecking the trucks and the person behind them were unclear. Hank (Lowery) was as good of a suspect as any of them, though the accus...

Synopsis: A college student, Amanda, accepts a babysitting job from a new family in town. The parents seem friendly but the mother, Helen, seems a bit elusive whenever Amanda asks questions. Once she is left alone in the house, however, Amanda discovers the truth, the man Helen lives with isn't her real husband. Instead, her real husband and the child's father, Brian, has been institutionalized, has escaped and is now trying to get inside the house. Who's in it? The movie stars Honor Blackman , Susan George , George Cole , Ian Bannen and Tara Collinson. Review: I came across Fright while scrolling through movies on Amazon Prime yesterday. While it sounded similar to plenty of other horror movies/thrillers I've seen, I figured I'd give it a try this morning since I had some extra time before needing to head into the office. While I don't think it was the best movie I've seen from this genre, it ended up being OK. The movie does a decent job building up th...

Synopsis: After she receives a breakup letter from her GI boyfriend on her birthday, a distraught Norah Larkin has a drunken night out on the town with womanizing artist Harry Prebble at the Blue Gardenia restaurant only to have Prebble attempt to rape her. Norah wakes up the next morning hungover and with very little memory of the previous night but learns Prebble has been murdered with evidence pointing to her as his killer. Who's in it? The movie stars Anne Baxter , Richard Conte , Ann Sothern , Raymond Burr and Jeff Donnell. Review : We're reaching the time of year when my arthritic knees act up a bit and the only way I can sleep is by putting some heat on them before bed. Since this resulted in my wife going to bed before me tonight, I ended up finally watching The Blue Gardenia on Amazon Prime. Overall, I have to say it was a good choice. The mystery is a decent one, with Norah (Baxter) seemingly being the last person with Harry Prebble (Burr) before his death and wit...

Synopsis: Nicole Sands helped her dad create a shark/octopus hybrid for the United States military and can control it remotely using electrical impulses. However, while testing their creation in the ocean waters near Mexico, an accident results in the creature being freed. It is now up to her and Andy, a former employee fired by her father, to stop the creature's killing spree while attempting to keep it alive. Who's in it? The movie stars  Kerem Bürsin ,  Sara Malakul Lane , Eric Roberts , Héctor Jiménez and Liv Boughn. Review:   Sharktopus has been out for some time and while I've known about it, I've always been a bit reluctant to watch it. However, I was having a hard time choosing a movie last night and figured it couldn't be much worse than some other shark movies we've watched recently so my wife and I finally gave it a chance. It ended up surprising me. Look, I'm not going to pretend this is a good movie by any measure. The premise is farfetched....