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La Momia Azteca contra el Robot Humano
The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy
The Aztec Mummy against the Humanoid Robot
Mexico 1958
produced by Guillermo Calderón for Cinematográfica Calderón
directed by Rafael Portillo
starring Ramón Gay, Rosita Arenas, Crox Alvarado, Luis Aceves Castañeda (archive footage), Jorge Mondragón, Arturo Martínez, Emma Roldán, Julián de Meriche, Salvador Lozano, Jaime González Quiñones, Ángel Di Stefani, Adolfo Rojas, Jesús Murcielago Velázquez, Enrique Yáñez, Lobo Negro (= Guillermo Hernández), 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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Much of this film has Dr. Almada (Ramón Gay) recounting the story of
the Aztec Mummy so far to two of his colleagues (and using plenty of
footage from both The Aztec Mummy
and Curse of the Aztec Mummy in the process), including how his
wife Flor (Rosita Arenas) had some power over the mummy, being its
reincarnated lover, and how Dr. Krupp (Luis Aceves Castaneda) turned evil,
desparately wanting to get his hands on the breastplate and the bracelet
of the mummy, despite knowing that stealing these will awaken the mummy
and cause it to go on a rampage. Last time Dr. Krupp was seen though, he
fell into a snake pit and was thought dead in the process. That was five
years ago, but now, there are indications that Dr. Krupp is actually alive
and up to his old tricks. And really, when Almada and company check, they
find the snakepit Krupp has supposedly died in had an escape hatch and he
has apparently escaped. And apparently, he and his gang have stolen a
certain quantity of radium, so all our heroes have to do is inquiring at
all the steel vendors if anybody has bought enough steel of late to house
the radium, and this trail eventually leads Almada and friends to a
mausoleum where the mummy (Ángel Di Stefani) is kept - and apparently,
Krupp has built himself a human robot (Adolfo Rojas) to relieve the mummy
of its breatplate and bracelet and then tear the mummy to shreds - which
would then provide Krupp with an immense treasure Krupp would invest into
building more robots to ultimately rule the world. Our heroes try to stop
him but fail, but once awakened, the mummy takes out not only the robot
but also Krupp and gang, before Flor returns bracelet and breastplate and
persuades the mummy to go to sleep again ... Now whatever bad
you want to say about this film is probably accurate, it's cheaply made,
and its over-reliance on footage from the earlier movies in the series is
a bit jarring, it's story is a bit thin even for its short 65 minute
running time, and the robot looks as if out of the bargain basement bin of
a toy store - and I could go on here, but all of this is also a bit beside
the point, as the film's also pretty hilarious at pretty much every turn
along the way, as its blend of horror clichés and cheap thrills in a
slightly childish story without any sort of pretension has something
weirdly hypnotic, so despite or maybe even for the its shortcomings, this
is a pretty entertaining movie.
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