Showing posts with label the aztec mummy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the aztec mummy. Show all posts

Thursday, August 11, 2022

Different Aztec Mummy

 

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SANTO IN THE VENGEANCE OF THE MUMMY-1971-Once again pro-wrestler/crime fighter El Santo (playing himself) helps a scientist find a hidden treasure, this one belonging to an Aztec prince. After they desecrate his tomb his scary faced mummified body comes back to life. His fight with Santo in the climax is pretty long. The secret of the mummy (who uses a bow and arrow to kill most of his victims) is revealed in a disappointing ending. Santo's real life son El Hijo del Santo plays a young boy befriended by our hero. Director Rene Cordona and screenwriter Alfredo Salazar made this one.

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Monday, August 8, 2022

Wrestling Women Return (and The Mummy!)

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 WRESTLING WOMEN VS. THE AZTEC MUMMY-1964-An evil Asian (phony) Prince Fujiyata (Ramon Bugarini) and his "sisters" seek "the codex of the Aztecs" and kidnap, torture and kill several scientists trying to get it. Only Prof. Tracy remains. He has a plan to divide his half of the codex (the prince has the rest) among his friends detective Armando (Armando Silvestre) and his dopey comical assistant Tommy (Chucho Salinas) and two female wrestlers Loretta aka Gloria Venus (Lorena Valasquez from DOCTOR OF DOOM) and Lucy aka Golden Rubi (US born Elizabeth Campbell) but Tracy acts very mysteriously. Fujiyata's henchman Mao abducts Charlotte, the daughter of a dead scientist and hypnotizes her to be his spy. Fujiyata sends his sisters (two real life wrestlers) to battle the girls for possession of each other's half. The girls win and Tracy (and a flashback) discovers where the treasure may be. They take a necklace. Unfortunately the Aztec Mummy is guarding the tomb. The group escapes but the mummy (who can change into a bat) follows them. He kills all the bad guys and tries to make Charlotte his bride. 

More crazy wrestling horror from Mexico directed by the super prolific Rene Cordona (SANTA CLAUS).

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Saturday, July 23, 2022

The Aztec Mummy Strikes Back!

 


THE CURSE OF THE AZTEC MUMMY-1957-In this sequel to THE AZTEC MUMMY (made earlier in '57), Dr. Krupp (Luis Aceves Castenada) aka The Bat is sprung from jail by his gang led by Tierno. Krupp is still after the necklace and breastplate the mummy Popoca (Angel Di Stefani) is guarding. They invade the home of Dr. Almada (Ramon Gay) and kidnap his wife Flor (Rosita Arenas) because under hypnotism she was regressed and turns out she was Popoca's love, Xochitl. Also thrown in is a masked "El Santo" crime fighter called "The Angel". 

9monsterAfter Krupp awakens the mummy by stealing the sacred objects. Popoca inadvertently saves the good guys by beating up the gang and throwing Krupp into a pit of snakes. 

This is a wacky sequel that looks more like it was made 10 years earlier. Every one runs around a lot and Popoca is pretty scary. The director Rafael Portillo also made the second sequel THE ROBOT VS THE AZTEC MUMMY and many more movies in Mexico.

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