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La Momia Azteca
Attack of the Aztec Mummy
The Aztec Mummy
Mexico 1957
produced by Guillermo Calderón for Cinematográfica Calderón
directed by Rafael Portillo
starring Ramón Gay, Rosita Arenas, Crox Alvarado, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Jorge Mondragón, Arturo Martínez, Emma Roldán, Julián de Meriche, Salvador Lozano, Jaime González Quiñones, Ángel Di Stefani, Jesús Murcielago Velázquez, Enrique Yáñez, Guillermo Hernández (as Lobo Negro), Alberto Yáñez, Firpo Segura, Sergio Yañez, Estela Inda
story by Guillermo Calderón, Alfredo Salazar, screenplay by Alfredo Salazar, music by Antonio Díaz Conde
Aztec Mummy
review by Mike Haberfelner
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To test his theory of hypnotic regression on a human being, Dr Almada
(Ramón Gay) puts his girlfriend Flor (Rosita Arenas) - also the daughter
of his mentor Dr Sepulveda (Jorge Mondragón) - under deep hypnosis, and
she remembers one of her past lives as an Aztec virgin to be sacrificed to
one of their deities ... and when she's killed in her memory, she almost
dies from shock. So now Dr Almada has proof that satisfies himself that
his method works, but to convince the scientific world, he and his
associates have to go to the pyramid Flor's past incarnation is buried in
and retrieve her breast plate. Thing is, by doing so, Almada and friends
revive a mummy, there to guard the body of the sacrificed virgin. Almada
and company manage to escape in one piece though, and with the
breastplate. But the mummy's coming after them to get back the breastplate
... as is masked super criminal the Bat (Jesús Murcielago Velázquez),
whose men are first chased away by the mummy, later they quite simply run
into the police, and the Bat is revealed to be Dr Krupp (Luis Aceves
Castaneda), the chief doubter of Almada's theories. Back to the mummy
though, it manages to break into Almada's home and get its hands on the
breastplate, but then he recognizes his former lover in Flor and decides
to abduct her. Almada and company follow the mummy to its pyramid, somehow
manage to tear Flor from the mummy, and then Dr Sepulveda blows up the
creature, giving his own life in the process ... La Momia
Azteca sure is some fun to be had, seen as an old fashioned, cheap and
a bit creaky horror flick that's at least from today's perspective more
laugh-inducing than horrifying. That said, the movie doesn't have anything
new to add to the genre and instead is reminiscent of a few too many
B-movies of old, plus the thing's rather horribly structured, with the
mummy being introduced into the story only very late, and the whole
subplot about the Bat is introduced into the film rather clumsily and
without doing anything to further the main narrative, plus its resolve is
rather anti-climactic. So yeah, this might be fun for all the wrong
reasons ... but fun still.
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