Weird black magic film...

[D-Man]

Here's another movie I remember seeing bits and pieces of when I was younger.  For a long time I thought it was "The Serpent and The Rainbow", but now that I've watched that, I know it's not the one. 

All I can remember from it are two little things...One of them involved a scene where a guy in the shadows had a little blow dart tube in the middle of a street at night.  This might have been a street from the 1800's or the 1980's, I can't remember too well.  Anyway, the guy blew a dart or something at another man in the street, for what reason, I don't recall.  Anyway, whatever was in that little blowgun was powerful, because I think in the next scene, the victim sat down to eat something in a restaurant (might have been a lobster) and then his meal suddenly came to life and attacked him.  Whether that was a hallucination or not is another thing I don't remember well.

Then there was one other scene...I don't even know if it was in the same movie...it looked like something out of Indiana Jones, but I know every scene of that trilogy, so I know that wasn't it.   I think these guys (Either one or two of them) were hiding, observing this bizarre ritual where some guys in robes were carrying what I think was a person wrapped in bandages like a mummy in some kind of open casket.  A bunch of worshipers were chanting in another language as the mummified person was then placed in what I think was some kind of a vat, that had either boiling water or chemicals inside of it.  I'm not 100% sure, but I think their victim may have been still alive as well, because there may have been some kind of a scream at that moment. 

It's very odd, the little things you remember sometimes, hehe.

[nshumate]

Sounds a lot like Young Sherlock Holmes to me.

[Gerry]

Yeah, it could very likely be YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES.  Young Watson does get "attacked" by hallucinatory food at one point, and the ending is very Indiana Jones-ish with a showdown in a pyramid.

[D-Man]

You're probably right, now that I've checked the IMDB.  I might try to find this after work today, since I've got a Hollywood Video nearby.

[akiratubo]

I'm 99% sure it's Young Sherlock Holmes.  My cousin used to watch this movie all the time.

[D-Man]

I can confirm it now.  I just watched Young Sherlock Holmes today.  Everything was just as i remembered for the two scenes I mentioned. 

One thing that stuck in my head all those years was the chant by the Ramtep worshipers.  Now I got to hear it again.  It's funny, because I always thought at one point in the chant they were saying something that sounded like "Make mummy-mum...make mummy-mum, mummy!"  I know that's not what they were really saying, but that's what it sounded like to me, hehehehe.