--- title: 'The Awakening (1980)' type: 'film' director: 'Mike Newell' released: '1980-01-01' runtime_minutes: 105 certification: 'R' genres: - 'Fantasy' - 'Horror' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-awakening-1980' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080402/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Awakening (1980) 1980 · R · 105 min · Fantasy, Horror · United Kingdom ## Synopsis The Awakening is a 1980 supernatural horror film directed by Mike Newell in his feature directorial debut, and starring Charlton Heston, Susannah York, and Stephanie Zimbalist. The film follows an archeologist whose daughter becomes possessed by an ancient Egyptian queen. It is the third film version of Bram Stoker's 1903 novel The Jewel of Seven Stars, following the 1970 television adaptation as The Curse of the Mummy for the TV series Mystery and Imagination, and the 1971 theatrical film by Hammer, Blood from the Mummy's Tomb. ## Credits - **Director:** [Mike Newell](https://cinepixo.com/people/mike-newell) - **Screenplay:** [Allan Scott](https://cinepixo.com/people/allan-scott-2), [Clive Exton](https://cinepixo.com/people/clive-exton) - **Original Music Composer:** [Claude Bolling](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-bolling) - **Director of Photography:** [Jack Cardiff](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-cardiff) - **Editor:** [Terry Rawlings](https://cinepixo.com/people/terry-rawlings) ## Cast - [Ahmed Osman](https://cinepixo.com/people/ahmed-osman) - [Ahmed Osman](https://cinepixo.com/people/ahmed-osman-2) - [Stephanie Zimbalist](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephanie-zimbalist) - [Bruce Myers](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruce-myers) - [Charlton Heston](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlton-heston) - [Jill Townsend](https://cinepixo.com/people/jill-townsend) - [Miriam Margolyes](https://cinepixo.com/people/miriam-margolyes) - [Albert Moses](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-moses) - [Ian McDiarmid](https://cinepixo.com/people/ian-mcdiarmid) - [Susannah York](https://cinepixo.com/people/susannah-york) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-awakening-1980 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1757452); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.