1980: The Awakening

While not exactly a good film, this Charleton-Heston-as-archaeologist epic is notable for being the first film with footage actually filmed in the Cairo Museum. (Other films like Karloff’s The Mummy, and Brendan Frasier’s 1999 film of the same name, have scenes that show almost identical exteriors of the museum, but the interiors were filmed on sets.)

Stars: Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend

Plot Summary by IMDB

An American archaeologist is in Egypt with his pregnant wife, searching for the tomb of a long-lost Egyptian queen. At the same moment he discovers the tomb and opens it’s accursed seal, his wife gives birth to his daughter. Years later it transpires that the malevolent spirit of the Egyptian queen left the tomb just as he was entering, and possessed his baby girl. As the truth becomes clear, the archaeologist realizes that he must destroy his daughter in a ceremonial ritual, before she uses her awesome powers to threaten the safety of mankind.