The Awakening (film)

Infobox_Film
name = The Awakening


caption = Theatrical release poster
producer = Robert H. Solo
director = Mike Newell
writer = Novel:
Bram Stoker
Screenplay:
Clive Exton
Chris Bryant
Allan Scott
starring = Charlton Heston
Susannah York
Jill Townsend
Stephanie Zimbalist
Patrick Drury
music = Claude Bolling
cinematography = Jack Cardiff
editing = Terry Rawlings | distributor = Warner Bros.
released = October, 1980 (USA)
runtime = 101 min.
country = United Kingdom
language = English
budget =
gross =
imdb_id = 0080402

"The Awakening" is a 1980 horror film. It was directed by Mike Newell, and was his first theatrical feature; he had worked in television for many years prior. It 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", followed by a theatrical adaptation in 1971, "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb", released through Hammer Films. The film 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".

Plot synopsis

Heston portrays an archaeologist who opens the tomb of an ancient Egyptian queen at the exact moment his daughter is born. Years later, the girl (Zimbalist), now a teenager, starts to undergo frightening changes in personality and people begin to mysteriously die. Heston soon comes to believe that the spirit of the queen, a cruel monarch named Kara, possessed his daughter at the moment of her birth and intends to resurrect herself through the girl's body.

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*imdb title|id=0080402|title=The Awakening