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:

supernatural power | psychotronic film | pre columbian civilization | pre columbian era | mummy | 

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

Unrated

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User Reviews

About as Bad as Warren Can Get

Attack of the Mayan Mummy (1964)

BOMB (out of 4)

Director Jerry Warren made a career out of making some of the very worse movies ever made. Why is his name never brought up as one of the worst directors ever? That's probably because most people fall asleep within minutes of hitting the play button. When he wasn't making his own movies, which was rare, the director was buying foreign movies, cutting them to pieces and then filming additional scenes with American actors. The Mexican horror movie LA MOMIA AZTECA (THE AZTEC MUMMY) is the victim here as Warren takes a few of its scenes and adds all sorts of overly long scenes dealing with people talking. This is usually what happens on these butchers jobs but I was really shocked to see how little footage was used from the original picture and how long the added dialogue scenes actually are. It's hard to determine what Warren movie is his worst but this here was pretty hard to sit through for a number of reasons. For one, the dialogue scenes are just so drawn out and long that I couldn't help but nearly nod off during each of them. Even worse is the fact that the dialogue rarely makes any sense and it's hard to follow what they're even trying to say. Another problem is that there's not too much good footage from the original film but I'm going to guess this was due to the original movie not having too much footage of the actual mummy monster. Even in the original film he didn't show up until the end and that footage is here. When viewing the work of Warren today we already know his history and how he cut up pictures and added footage and narration. I can't imagine what it must have been like back in the day when this was first released and you just happened upon this awful picture.

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

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1