The Curse of the Aztec Mummy is a cheap and shoddy sequel to the cheap and shoddy The Aztec Mummy (1957), made the same year by the same director (Rafael Portillo), with the same cast, and with the same lack of talent in every department.
Having been caught by the police at the end of the first film, criminal mastermind Dr. Krupp (Luis Aceves Castañeda) is freed by his accomplices in a daring rescue. Still after the Aztec treasure, Krupp orders his men to kidnap Flor (Rosita Arenas), who, under hypnosis, is able to reveal the whereabouts of the breastplate and bracelet required to discover the location of the treasure. Having retrieved the necessary artefacts, Krupp contacts Dr. Eduardo Almada, telling him that he will release Flor only if he agrees to translate the hieroglyphics on the breastplate and bracelet.
This film is (thankfully) barely over an hour long, and it's fifty minutes before there is any sight of the Aztec mummy (not that the wait is worth it - the monster is rubbish!). The run-up to the mummy's appearance is padded out by a long, boring flashback to the first film and lots of unconvincing fight scenes, many of which feature the mysterious caped crusader The Angel (whose outfit includes leotard, a wrestling belt with a big 'A' on it, and a luchador mask), who tries to help Eduardo and his friends, but always seems to get beaten to a pulp in the process.
In one particularly amusing scene, The Angel is placed in Dr. Krupp's 'chamber of death'- a room with a sliding floor that threatens to drop the hero in a pit full of lethargic snakes and a few rubber spiders. Krupp might have succeeding in ridding himself of his foe if only he hadn't had the room fitted with the world's strongest pendant light, from which The Angel hangs while he radios for assistance.
Also unintentionally hilarious is the shootout that features a machine-gun prop that clearly doesn't fire, and which requires the actor to shake it to try and make it look like it is spitting bullets (doing this doesn't fool anyone).
Incredibly, as utterly rubbish as The Curse of the Aztec Mummy is, it's still better than the final film in the series, The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy, which is so bad it should carry a health warning.
2.5/10, rounded up to 3 for IMDb.
Having been caught by the police at the end of the first film, criminal mastermind Dr. Krupp (Luis Aceves Castañeda) is freed by his accomplices in a daring rescue. Still after the Aztec treasure, Krupp orders his men to kidnap Flor (Rosita Arenas), who, under hypnosis, is able to reveal the whereabouts of the breastplate and bracelet required to discover the location of the treasure. Having retrieved the necessary artefacts, Krupp contacts Dr. Eduardo Almada, telling him that he will release Flor only if he agrees to translate the hieroglyphics on the breastplate and bracelet.
This film is (thankfully) barely over an hour long, and it's fifty minutes before there is any sight of the Aztec mummy (not that the wait is worth it - the monster is rubbish!). The run-up to the mummy's appearance is padded out by a long, boring flashback to the first film and lots of unconvincing fight scenes, many of which feature the mysterious caped crusader The Angel (whose outfit includes leotard, a wrestling belt with a big 'A' on it, and a luchador mask), who tries to help Eduardo and his friends, but always seems to get beaten to a pulp in the process.
In one particularly amusing scene, The Angel is placed in Dr. Krupp's 'chamber of death'- a room with a sliding floor that threatens to drop the hero in a pit full of lethargic snakes and a few rubber spiders. Krupp might have succeeding in ridding himself of his foe if only he hadn't had the room fitted with the world's strongest pendant light, from which The Angel hangs while he radios for assistance.
Also unintentionally hilarious is the shootout that features a machine-gun prop that clearly doesn't fire, and which requires the actor to shake it to try and make it look like it is spitting bullets (doing this doesn't fool anyone).
Incredibly, as utterly rubbish as The Curse of the Aztec Mummy is, it's still better than the final film in the series, The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy, which is so bad it should carry a health warning.
2.5/10, rounded up to 3 for IMDb.