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Ana Harwa, a
beautiful young University student, assists her fiancé Professor Carter
Moore and his assistant Tina Kim in the college warehouse as they open
the crate containing the 3,000-year-old mummy of Hor-Shep-Sut. The
mummy, along with other artifacts from the evil sorceress Hor-Shep-Sut's
Egyptian tomb, were collected by Ana's uncle Dr. Wallis Harwa, a famous
archaeologist possessing minor psychic abilities. The mummy's face is
covered by a gold mask in the image of Osiris, Egyptian god of death and
resurrection. When Ana touches the mummy's arm, she faints and
"remembers" Ancient Egypt -- images of an illicit love affair
between the Princess Hat-Em-Akhet, Ana's look-a-like, and Hor-Shep-Sut.
When Ana again revives, she is strangely cold toward Carter. has a gold
streak in her hair, just like the Princess', and asks that the mummy not
be unmasked.
Following her
encounter with the mummy, Ana progressively becomes more
"distant," at the same time losing interest in Carter and
becoming more curious about Ancient Egypt. She borrows a book about
mummies from her Uncle Wallis.
That night, a
curious security guard removes the Osiris mask and, in doing so, frees
the sorceress' spirit revives the mummy, which promptly drains off his
life energies, reducing him to a smoking, dried-up corpse. When partner
Chuck Jefferson investigates the other guard's disappearance, he
encounters the living mummy, which then transforms into the beautiful
human form of Hor-Shep-Sut. Via a kiss, Hor-Shep-Sut drains away Chuck's
"ka" - his spiritual twin - reducing him to a mindless and
obedient "zombie" slave. The following day, the entire
Egyptian collection - plus the two guards - are gone. Dr. Harwa fears
that the theft may involve the supernatural.
Hor-Shep-Sut,
after setting up the artifacts from her tomb in an abandoned theatre,
longs to renew her love affair with Hat-em-Akhet. Having already felt
Ana's touch, she knows that the Princess' reincarnated spirit exists in
this new millennium, just waiting to be awakened. She prays to the
deities Osiris and Isis for advice. Appearing from the Afterlife, they
instruct her that she must first increase her magical powers by draining
off the "kas" of young women, and then…
Encountering Ana
at the college and immediately recognizing her as the reincarnated
Princess, Hor-Shep-Sut -calling herself Ramsay Amun -- begins her subtle
campaign to reawaken Hat-Em-Akhet time-buried spirit. Meanwhile, Carter
has his own problems. Although he believes he loves Ana, she is now more
involved with Ramsay than with him. The other coeds at the school,
finding Carter extremely attractive and charismatic, constantly try to
seduce him. Furthermore, loyal Tina is secretly in love with Carter,
but, knowing he loves Ana, will not "cross over the line" and
reveal her true feelings for him.
Consulting Dr.
Harwa, Carter learns the legendary account of Hat-Em-Akhet and
Hor-Shep-Sut, as revealed in an ancient papyrus scroll: Pharaoh, after
learning of the forbidden love affair between his daughter and the
sorceress, had his Nubian warriors capture Hor-Shep-Sut. Promptly, the
royal embalmers trapped Hor-Shep-Sut's spirit inside her body by
affixing the mask of Osiris to her face. Then, while the young woman yet
lived, they cut out her heart, placing it in a canopic jar (now on a
shelf in Harwa's office), then wrapped up and entombed her body. Dr.
Harwa, noticing the striking resemblance between his niece and the
Princess as depicted on the scroll, fears the worst, while Carter, a man
of science, is skeptical.
The worst does
happen. Ramsay increases her powers by seducing Helena and Yvonne, two
of Carter's more amorous students, draining off their "kas"
and reducing them to "zombie" states. Then, learning from
Osiris and Isis that she must retrieve her missing heart and then join
it with Ana's, Ramsay magically attacks Dr. Harwa and steals the canopic
jar. Then, via a mystic amulet, she lures Ana to the theatre where she
plans to cut out her heart and perform the ritual by which the Sorceress
and Princess can become lovers again throughout Eternity.
Learning via the
dying Dr. Harwa's psychic impression where Ana has gone, Carter - at
last starting to believe in the supernatural -- and Tina rush to the
theatre, where they are menaced first by the enslaved Chuck, and then
Helena and Yvonne. Prevailing, Carter and Tina interrupt Ramsay's ritual
just as she is about to cut into the sleeping Ana's chest to remove her
heart. Ramsay attacks Carter with her magical powers. Thinking fast,
Tina grabs the Osiris mask and forces it back onto Ramsay's face,
causing her to return to mummy form. Before she dies, however, Ramsay
manages to transfer her spirit into Ana's body. In the end, Carter
finally realizes he loves Tina after all. But while the lifeless mummy
of Hor-Shep-Sut is again crated up to be put back in storage, the
sorceress' spirit has apparently survived in the form of Ana.
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