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A thousand years ago, somewhere in Africa, prince Batanego (Aldo
Sambrell in blackface) was buried alive for falling in love with the wrong
woman, Kenya (Tanyeka Stadler) - who was decapitated in the process. 300
years ago, his sarcophagus was found with his mummified body inside, and
had since been exhibited in many a museum. But now Dr Kessling (Alfredo
Mayo) has gotten hold of the sarcophagus and mummy, and for some reason
brings them back to their country of origin on a luxury cruiseship ... and
Gatanebo is brought to life again. Conveniently, he finds the
reincarnations of some of the people who wronged him among the ship crew
and executes them, and he also finds Kessling's assistant/lover Sylvia
(Eva León) is Kenya reincarnated. So he assumes the identity of a eminent
expert on voodooism to be near her. Kessling of course sees through his
charade, but Batanego's unique inside knowledge of voodoo convince him to
play part in his little ruse, and he even tries to lure the revived prince
back into his sarcophagus and seal it shut - not knowing that he has long
taken over the mind of Kessling's assistant, who promptly frees him again,
and then Batanega grabs Sylvia and carries her to the cave he was back
then executed with him. Thing is, an eccentric local policeman (Fernando
Sancho) has long seen through the case, but without evidence and with all
the unbelievable stuff going on, he was forced to wait until something
like the kidnapping of Sylvia happens to force Kessling to show his hand. In
the end, Batanego the mummy is burned to cinders with a flamethrower, but
so is Sylvia. A film first and foremost for lovers of
Eurotrash: It's cheaply made, not all that thought through, no signs of
political correctness, cardboard characters, bad comic reliefs, and not
all the acting is above wooden ... but it's also a tad on the sleazy side,
wades knee-deep in pulp mainstays (being especially reminiscent of 1932's The
Mummy starring Boris Karloff), and its narrative carelessness also
shows a certain love for fantastic stories. Now most people might not
appreciate this, and even if there are far better films even in this
category out there, this is pretty much a feature of the so-bad-it's-good
variety.
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