The Awakening is a 1980 British horror film directed by Mike Newell in his directorial debut and starring Charlton Heston, Susannah York, and Stephanie Zimbalist.

Matthew and Jane discover a long-hidden tomb that bears an inscription: "Do Not Approach the Nameless One Lest Your Soul Be Withered.

One of the Egyptian specialists opposing Matthew is killed in a freak accident, allowing him to transport the mummy to England.

Margaret, now eighteen (the age of Queen Kara when she died), goes to England to meet her father against her mother Anne's wishes.

Matthew secretly brings the jars back to England, eager to attempt a ritual to resurrect the ancient queen.

He believes that Kara's spirit possessed his daughter at the moment of her birth, and that she intends to resurrect herself through the girl's body.

He proposes that the only way to save Margaret, who has fallen into a coma, is to perform the ritual over Kara's mummy in the British Museum.

However they criticized the film as being "predictable, unrelentingly dull, and padded with tedious Egyptian travelog footage".