- published: 09 Jun 2016
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The Awakening is a 1980 British horror film. It is the debut film of director Mike Newell, who has had extensive work experience in television prior to this film. This 1980 film, The Awakening, is the third film version of Bram Stoker's 1903 novel The Jewel of Seven Stars, which had previously been adapted for television in 1970 as The Curse of the Mummy, and was followed by a theatrical adaptation in 1971, Blood from the Mummy's Tomb. The Awakening stars Charlton Heston, Susannah York, and Stephanie Zimbalist in an early acting role. It was released by Warner Bros.
Another adaptation of Stoker's novel was released directly to video in 1997, under the title Bram Stoker's The Mummy.
The film opens on an Egyptian archaeological dig in 1961. Three of the main characters are introduced, Matthew Corbeck (Heston), his wife Anne Corbeck (Jill Townsend), and Jane Turner (Susannah York). Matthew and Jane are discussing their work to try to uncover the tomb of an ancient Egyptian Queen while Anne looks distressed by the relationship between her husband and his assistant. It is later proved that her distress is justified.
I arise once again. Cannot die my friend.
It's been years since I was laid to res.
Don't know what I've done. Only what I've become.
For me... No rest.
I walk again with a hunger that never ends.
I starve forever. I'ts you I'll drain.
You'll never be the same. I'll make you like me.
Ohhhh.
OH NO
Awake once more. From lost tales of yore.
The demon you thought. Was a lie.
I'm here with you. Nothing you can do.