Attack of the Mayan Mummy (1964)

Following the death of his sister, who was co-director with him of the Cowan Research Center in Pasadena, Dr. Frederick Munson was ousted and replaced by his widowed brother-in-law, Dr. ... See full summary »

Directors:

Rafael Portillo, Jerry Warren

Writers:

Guillermo Calderón (screenplay) (as Gilbert Solar), Alfredo Salazar (screenplay) (as Alfred Salimar)

Stars:

Nina Knight, Richard Webb, John Burton

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Nina Knight
Richard Webb
John Burton
Peter Mills
Steve Conte	...	The Hired Thief
Jorge Mondragón	...	Chairman of the Scientific Society (as Jorge Mondragon)
Emma Roldán	...	(as Emma Roldan) (credit only)
George Mitchell	...	Dr. Frederick Munson
Chuck Niles	...	Douglas Banks, Newscaster
William White	...	(as Bill White)
Fred Hoffman	...	Detective Hammond

Storyline

Following the death of his sister, who was co-director with him of the Cowan Research Center in Pasadena, Dr. Frederick Munson was ousted and replaced by his widowed brother-in-law, Dr. Edmund Redding. Through Redding's son, Timmy, Munson has been able to learn of a secret project at the institute involving the use of hypnosis to regress subjects to past lives, which information Munson passes along to a friend, Dr. John Janney. To a newspaper editor-friend, Munson relates what happened next: through the hypnotic regression, Redding established that Ann Taylor was a reincarnated Aztec woman and, via her recovered memories, was able to find hidden chambers in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan, which store a treasure of the ancient Aztecs. However, the treasure was guarded by a living mummy, which killed Redding but was captured and brought back to Pasadena by Redding's assistants. As Munson conspired to regain control of the Cowan Institute, Janney plotted to steal the mummy and learn its ...

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Plot Keywords:

mummy | hypnosis | ancient curse | tomb | supernatural | 

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

Mexico USA

Language:

English

Also Known As:

The Mummy Strikes

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

77 min 72 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Did You Know?

Connections

Edited from La momia azteca (1957)

User Reviews

Attack Of The Hack Director Jerry Warren

In 1957 a neat little movie called The Aztec Mummy was made in Mexico.It was the forerunner of 3 more movies in the Aztec Mummy series.While these weren't classics they were fun to watch.

In 1964 Jerry Warren bought the US rights to the film Aztec Mummy. He cut out 45 minutes of the original movie.Why he did this is anybody's guess. He replaced the footage with 45 minutes of scientists & newspaper men TALKING!!These "characters" were inserted because they were cheap and were only used as exposition!

Remember ol' skip's rule of thumb:Using the first five minutes having actors doing exposition and you have a bad movie on your hands. Try sitting through the first 30 minutes of this agonizing film of truly mind numbing, boring "conversation". Truly cinematic Hell.

I would love to see the original movie again but alas it is probably lost to us now.This "cut" is the WORST movie in memory. Rhino just released it. Stay away from this. You've been warned.