Where do you find good material for a stage play? In an ancient Egyptian ritual that’s
where. In The Ritual of Death (1990) a theater troupe decide to try something
new by staging a play based on an ancient Egyptian ritual involving human
sacrifice. Doing this has caused them to
unleash the evil spirit of a fanatical cult leader who led his followers into
suicide. When one of them becomes
possessed by the spirit they soon realize that members of the troupe start to
disappear one by one and it is only a matter of time before the Egyptian ritual
finds its final sacrifice.
Starring Leo Robinson, Michael Kelly, Lilian Ramos, Tiao
Hoover, Carina Palatinic, Sergio Hingst, and Mara Husemann the film has a
staple of interesting actors in the ensemble but they are hampered with a basic
‘90s horror film plot that doesn’t allow any of them to really shine or show
range. This being said there is a
handful of interesting deaths scenes but overall the film never reaches the
height of becoming a legitimate ‘90s cult classic. There are worse films out there and this is
just a film barely worth watching.
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