Review – Sands of Oblivion

I think I’m starting to develop a tolerance for Sci Fi Channel movies. To be sure, this is stupid stuff. The thesis is that when Cecil B. DeMille made his silent version of The Ten Commandments he used some actual Egyptian stuff in the set he built in the California sand dunes. And apparently the stuff had some kind of curse on it (go figure). So when preservationists try to rescue the old shooting location before it’s wrecked by an oil company, they manage to wake up a big, burly guy with a horse skull for a head. Cheap as the villain is, it actually isn’t the worst monster I’ve ever seen. Ditto for the script and the acting. Indeed, aside from a dune buggy race that seems to go on forever, this actually manages to stay fairly entertaining. It’s not going to go down in history as a great moment in the cinema art, but then it wasn’t really trying to be a historic moment. And it wasn’t the dumbest thing I’ve seen so far this year (or so far this weekend, for that matter). Mildly amusing