The Awakening
1980

If you ever needed to see proof that Hammer knew what they were doing, you don't need to look any further than this utter pile of stinking crap.
The Awakening trawls through the same subject matter as Hammer's infinitely superior Blood From The Mummy's Tomb (Stoker's Jewel Of The Seven Stars), but the two films are incomparable.
The Awakening has an obviously huge budget, a massive star name (Charlton Heston, no less), and Egyptian scenes actually filmed in Egypt, and not a building site round the back of Shepperton Studios. Yet it's awful. Whereas Tomb had none of these things and is one of the best films Hammer produced.
If you look carefully, you can spot Nadim "Professional Egyptian" Swahala and Miriam Margoles knocking around in the background, but to be honest I wouldn't bother. The only good bit is seeing Charlton "Spaghetti Legs" Heston mucking about in the desert with a bad case of sunburn. Exactly. I don't want to talk about this film any more.

Awakening, The (1980)
Director: Mike Newell Writer(s): Chris Bryant Clive Exton
Cast: Charlton Heston - Matthew Corbeck, Susannah York - Jane Turner, Jill Townsend - Anne Corbeck, Stephanie Zimbalist - Margaret Corbeck, Patrick Drury - Paul Whittier, Bruce Myers - Dr. Khalid, Nadim Sawalha - Dr. El Sadek, Ian McDiarmid - Dr. Richter, Ahmed Osman - Yussef, Miriam Margolyes - Dr. Kadira, Michael Mellinger - Hamid, Leonard Maguire - John Matthews, Ishia Bennison - Nurse, Madhav Sharma - Doctor, Michael Halphie - Doctor