The Curse of the Aztec Mummy (1957)

Thanks for the memories!

Simply A Masterpiece

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

This sequel to "The Aztec Mummy" is much cheesier than its predecessor, it introduces a luchador and then reveals that it was a character that we knew all along, it has much more action than the first one and becomes considerably dumber, its not any better than the first one but it is a bit more watchable.It shares many flaws with the original, like the fact that its quite boring when nothing is happening, its cheap, trashy and its horror scenes are horribly executed, the mummy also lacks screen time in this one, it appears around the 49 minute mark, however, I don't think its too bad at least this one has some fun scenes.This entry also makes us watch about 10 minutes of footage from the last film, something that will go out of control in the third entry "The Robot vs the Aztec Mummy" which is almost 70% stock footage."Curse of the Aztec Mummy" its campier and a bit more fun than the last one but its not good nor is it highly entertaining.

Sequel to 'The Aztec Mummy'. The mummy is resting in peace, because the treasure items were returned to him. The evil Dr Krupp, who is known as 'The Bat' ('El Murcielago' sounds a lot more impressive in the Spanish original), is interrogated by the police, but doesn't answer any of their questions. During the transport to prison, gangsters free him and shoot the police guards, although a masked superman called 'The Angel' tried to stop that ('My mission is to do all I can to eliminate crime, but there is so much of it around', he sighs). Naturally, Dr Krupp makes a second attempt to obtain the treasure – but is he prepared for the reawakening of the mummy? Good fun, especially with 'The Angel' who loses almost all of his fights ('We've got to use our head this time', he says when he makes an attempt to improve his tactics) and probably wears the mask only because it's better if nobody recognizes him later.

Nefarious criminal mastermind the Bat (broadly essayed with lip-smacking wicked relish by Luis Aceves Castaneda) breaks out of jail and resumes his no-count ways. The Bat abducts both Dr. Eduardo Almada (the engaging Roman Guy) and his fiancé Flora (lovely Rosita Arenas) in order order to get his greedy hands on the Aztec mummy Popoca's treasure. Fortunately, brave, but hopelessly incompetent masked super hero the Angel (beefy wonder Crox Alvarado) comes to the (sort of) rescue. Eschewing the spooky atmosphere of the original, this sequel instead plays more like a gloriously ridiculous condensed 65 minute version of a vintage 30's serial: we've got over-the-top chortling campy villains, cheesy cliffhangers (the Angel almost buys it when he's tossed into a snake pit by the Bat), uproariously inept fisticuffs and shoot-outs, a rousing score, and a nonstop zippy pace that rarely lets up for a minute. Director Rafael Portillo and writers Alfredo Salazar and Guillermo Calderon treat this foolishness in a ludicrously straight manner, which in turn greatly adds to the considerable unintentional hilarity of the whole nutty thing (the revelation of the Angel's actual identity is especially ludicrous). Best of all, the Aztec mummy Popca actually helps save the day in the gloriously absurd and gut-busting climax. Moreover, the scenes with the Angel getting severely clobbered by the Bat's heinous henchmen are likewise positively sidesplitting. A complete dippy hoot.

Second of the three Aztec mummy films picks up where the first film left off with The Bat, now exposed as Dr Krupp still going after the hidden Aztec treasure. Again using past life regression he tries to find the hiding spot and eventually runs up against the mummy. There is a great deal of flashback material in this film from the first movie with the result that even at an hour the film feels padded. (Actually had I not just seen the first film it wouldn't have been bad). This time out the evil doctor also has to contend with a masked wrestler named the Angel. Why he's involved never really makes sense other than the person who is really Angel wants his identity hidden. Its not a horrible movie, but it is a slow one. Its also the sort of thing that most people point to as the creakiness of Mexican horror films. Actually its the creakiness of the ones that got a great deal of play on American TV. As with the first film the mummy only really shows up in the final minutes (though there are some brief flashback footage) so the inclusion of the mummy is more a come on than a real statement. And despite the apparent demise of Dr Krupp he's back in the third film Robot VS The Aztec Mummy. Better than the first film, as to whether you see the film is up to you.