La maldición de la momia azteca (1957)

User Rating:

3.6/10   

Director:

Rafael Portillo

Writers:

Guillermo Calderón (writer)
Alfredo Salazar (writer)

Release Date:

1957 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation...

Plot Keywords:

Mummy | Sequel | Curse

Cast

Ramón Gay	...	Dr. Eduardo Almada
Rosa Arenas	...	Flor / Xochi (as Rosita Arenas)
Crox Alvarado	...	Pinacate / El Ángel
Luis Aceves Castañeda	...	Dr. Krupp
Jorge Mondragón	...	Dr. Sepúlveda
Arturo Martínez	...	Tierno
Emma Roldán	...	María, the housekeeper
Julián de Meriche	...	Comandante de Policia (as Julien de Meriche)
Salvador Lozano
Jaime González Quiñones	...	Pepe Almada (as Jaime Quinones)
Ángel Di Stefani	...	Popoca, the mummy (as Angelo De Steffani)
Jesús Murcielago Velázquez	...	Krupp's Henchman (as Murcielago Velázquez)
Enrique Yáñez	...	Krupp's Henchman
Guillermo Hernández	...	Krupp's Henchman (as Lobo Negro)
Alberto Yáñez	...	Krupp's Henchman

Also Known As:

The Curse of the Aztec Mummy (USA) (TV title)

Runtime:

65 min

Country:

Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Mexico

Company:

Cinematográfica Calderón S.A.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Las luchadoras contra la momia (1964)

Berserk Mexican Mayhem! We DARE you to make sense of it !

Giving this film a 9 is an internal rating. We are talking Mexican mummy/ masked super hero/ science fiction/supernatural movies. And this one is nearly perfect. First of all, it's a fast 65 minutes. Second, you have that nasty ol' turkey, Dr. Krupp from THE AZTEC MUMMY coming back, and STILL after that doggone breastplate. Ramon Gay, Rosita Arenas and lots of stock footage from AZTEC MUMMY have also returned, with a great edit job of the 'Past Lives Dance Sequence' from the first film. But this film ALSO features the FIRST Mexican masked superhero, complete with mandatory Masked Superhero Mini-mobile/Shriner Car. Santo was three years away. Neutron four. Blue Demon eight. THE ANGEL was there first in 1957, jumping and leaping and getting beat up, complete with the standard equipment deep resonant voice and a wrist radio to get him out of trouble. THIS is history. Don't look for logic or even continuity with the first film. The thing is on such a headlong rush, some people thought it HAD to be edited down from a 12 part serial, like the NOSTRADAMUS films were. It wasn't, by the way, just filmed in the same year, back to back with the first. Now available in THE AZTEC MUMMY COLLECTION from BCI and cleaned up, with the original Spanish soundtrack on one side, the K Gordon Murray re dub on the other...HAVEN'T you always wondered what they were REALLY saying?? Answer: in most cases, it's just as surreal.