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I am inspired to write a little bit about this odd, extremely obscure mid-70's movie. Has anyone here seen this?

This is a weird flick about an archaeologist studying the culture of the ancient Hohokam Indians. She takes a (really fake looking) mummy out of a burial cave and brings it home to study it. Well, pretty soon she starts acting weird and talking to this mummy. And shortly thereafter her son becomes possessed by the spirit of the mummy. Even stranger events take place as the spirit then tries to destroy the woman's family. This is actually REALLY BORING and it will make you fall asleep the first couple of times you try to watch it. But if you stick with it, you may just make it to the end.

The way I have described the story is much clearer than the jumbled way the film lays the story out. But if you like boring 70's films that are photographed mainly in sunlight, this could prove utterly fascinating. Can a boring movie really be fascinating? Well...somehow this one achieves that.

Fans of "Spider Baby" will be interested to know that a couple of music tracks from that film are used in this one (including an instrumental version of the theme song).

Featuring one frightening and fairly well-done sequence showing possessed boulders and rocks rolling around by themselves and eventually attacking some people in a camper. Some of these boulder effects were done with reverse photography and are fairly easy to figure out...and some of these effects were done in some clever way I still don't understand. You should check this movie out! Because, you know, I said so.