Scarab (1983)
Scarab is an American occult film from 1983 directed by Steven-Charles Jaffe, and starring Robert Ginty and Rip Thorn.
Plot
A former Nazi scientist awakens an Egyptian entity. The scientist becomes the evil guru of a sect of killer fanatics who’s goal is to eliminate the most powerful men in the world.
A reporter(Robert Ginty) finds out that the victims all have a scarab-shaped amulet on them. 
The scarab turns out to be the symbol of the Egyptian cult seeking to gain new power attempts to resurrect an ancient Egyptian god.
Half of the fun comes from the things people say and do, like taking illogical actions or mumbling stupendous dialogues that don’t make a lick of sense. So can you imagine how irrational some of the content and imagery of this film will be then? This is where the other half of the fun comes in. We got an old dude popping up on the streets at random moments, pointing his finger at Robert Ginty and then things explode, catch fire, cars crash or bullets start flying around people’s ears.
There’s a nun who turns out to be a witch – a good warlock actually, and if you don’t believe that, I’ll tell you something else – who teams up with Robert Ginty and turns out to be Rip Torn’s daughter (that’s where the incest comes in later on, folks). There’s a rotating hotel door suddenly bursting into ghostly flames for no reason whatsoever with nobody around to see it happen
Robert Ginty is driving his motorcycle straight into a train, only to go hang out at the bar with the mysterious witch/nun and deliver us some of the most horrendous acting of his entire career.
And best of all, an entire ghost town gets introduced with dead people lying all over the main street and we have absolutely no idea how all of that suddenly happened.
Notable scenes
The Egyptian rituals with lots of half naked women dancing around makes it worth a watch.
Making of the Scarab
Not much is known about the making of this movie. The director Steven-Charles Jaffe was born in 1951. He is a producer and assistant director, known for Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Strange Days (1995) and Ghost (1990).
Our view on The Burning
This is an obscure movie. Badly directed and badly played. The Egyptian rituals with lots of half naked women dancing around makes it worth a watch. The sets look fake and the special effects too. Only for the real trash cult seekers.
