Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

zardoz-13 "Attack of the Mayan Mummy" director Rafael Portillo's "The Robot Vs. The Aztec Mummy" ranks as one of the most egregiously awful horror epics ever produced! Basically, scenarists Guillermo Calderón and Alfredo Salazar have appropriated two Universal horror classics "The Mummy" and "Frankenstein" and turned the ghouls loose on each other. This low-budget, 65-minute tale occurs largely in flashback with the principal participant, Dr. Eduardo Almada (Ramón Gay of "Face of the Screaming We"), providing copious but cogent stretches of expository dialogue about his misadventures trying to acquire an ancient breastplate and a necklace. As it turns out, Dr. Almada hypnotized his fiancée, Flora (Rosa Arenas), and he was surprised to learn that she had been an Aztec princess Xochitl in another life! She died at the hands of the tribal authorities after they found out that she had been having an affair with a lower caste warrior. Dr. Almada's chief nemesis, the obese Dr. Kupp (Luis Aceves Castañeda of "Santo and the Diabolical Brain), is just as determined to lay his heads on the sacred breastplate and the necklace. No matter what they do, they cannot steal those prized items without awakening the Mummy. The Mummy was killed, too, and cursed for eternity to never let anybody carry off the relics. Dr. Kupp realizes his predicament, obtains a dead a body, a brain, and manufactures a large robot to contend with the invincible Mummy. The robot looks hilarious, with big tubes protruding from his helmet-like head. He has gear-shaped arms with pincers for hands. The robot looks cartoon-like, and the face of a man is visible in the face plate of the helmet. When the robot perambulates, it wobbles amusingly from one side to the next, and robot doesn't speak. For that matter, the Mummy only makes guttural sounds. The battle between these two titans is ephemeral, and outcome is thoroughly predictable. The Mummy triumphs over robot, and the Mummy lumbers off to return to its original resting place with the breastplate and necklace intact.The Mexican cast has been obviously dubbed, and the dialogue in their conversations sounds stilted. Luis Aceves Castañeda resembles Victor Buono, and he looks insanely hysterical. Essentially, there are only about three or four scenes where the Mummy appears. First, he attacks the villains, smashes a man so that sulphuric acid burns his face and the Mummy carries Dr. Kupp off to a snake-pit. For the rest of the movie, Kupp's right-hand henchman walks around with his collar turned up to conceal the hideous scar. This tedious tale of terror is good for lots of laughs.

preppy-3 Nice Dr. Almada (Ramon Gay) discovers a hidden tomb in a pyramid. In it is a priceless bracelet and breast plate. It's also guarded by a mummy who has been cursed for all eternity to protect it. Evil Dr. Krupp (Luis Castaneda) wants them to finance his experiments for world domination...but the mummy kills anyone who tries to take them. So Dr. Krupp build a powerful robot to kill the mummy so he can get the treasure.OK--I love bad films. How could I resist something with a title like this? Unfortunately it's not bad enough to be fun. It's just BAD! It also manages to be slow AND convoluted at the same time! The plot is (obviously) stupid and this is a Mexican film that's horribly dubbed. It was shown to kids back in 1960 at kiddie matinée here in the U.S. Even the kids probably hated this! The film is very low budget...and it shows. The makeup is (and I'm being kind) terrible! The mummy is nothing more than a guy in rags with a dime store mask that looks like oatmeal! The robot is just a guy in an ill-fitting suit that wouldn't pass muster for a grade school play. The title fight comes at the end and is far from thrilling. It lasts an astonishing two MINUTES and just has them pushing each other around! The acting can't be truthfully judged because they're all dubbed. It's thankfully short at only 65 minutes but it still has plenty of padding that I was fast-forwarding through. Good for a few unintentional laughs but it's more boring than anything else. A 1 all the way.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- 1957, Rather mad scientist movie about a scientist robot makers that gets his human heart powered robot to attack and steal an secret Aztec treasure protected by a dangerous Aztec mummy. The Mexican wrestler, The Saint, becomes a policeman to oversee the drama.*Special Stars- Ramon Gay, Rosa Arenas *Theme- Mummies are too dangerous.*Based on- Frankenstein and mummy myths.*Trivia/location/goofs- Mexican film featuring private investigator wrestlers, Aztec mummies and robots.*Emotion- The is solid fodder for the MST3000 TV show for the worst films. This film has a tremendous lead-up during the suspense of this epic. The overly dramatic corny scene music out does what's on the screen. The characters mostly over act with huge gestures ala a theatrical performance. The villain, The Bat, eats up the scenery and out shines all others in the scenes with him. The money spent on the human atomic robot of the villain is ordinary to see. The use of the robot after the build up is very slow and pedantic for in-terminal minutes of boredom. The end has the Aztec mummy to be the honorable hero warrior as he destroys the robot after the electronic control is broken with a gunshot from police. The female lead gives the mummy the stolen Aztec relics that she stole many long minutes ago. The mummy just leaves peaceably and the shows end is a real downer. Not drama, no fight scenes, no nothing worth watching. A campy film that makes the ring wrestlers of that time into heroic men that fight to restore the Aztec treasures and mummy.

MARIO GAUCI I was expecting this to be even worse than the second entry in the "Aztec Mummy" series, but it's basically on a par with it. That said, about a third of the 64-minute running-time is lazily devoted to a reconstruction of previous events (yet again!): the corny Aztec sacrificial ritual is boring enough on first viewing but, watched three times in a row, it becomes positively exasperating!! However, I was gratified for their inclusion because, at least, scenes in which detail was indistinct in the prints utilized for the other two films in the set were far clearer now... Anyway, this hastily-written third (and final) chapter of the saga provides standard excitements – with yet another attempt by the villain (who miraculously escaped the grisly death set out for him at the end of the preceding entry!) at hypnotizing the heroine, in an effort to locate the dormant mummy and its valuable artifacts (which will enable him to lay his hands on the mythical Aztec treasure). All in all, it's a very painless way to kill an hour.The Bat's ravings are at their ripest here (assisted by his acid-scarred lieutenant, the result of an unfortunate encounter with the Mummy in the second film – and whose vengeful predicament introduces an unexpected poignancy to the proceedings!): he conceives a radioactive human robot(!) in order to fend off the inevitable marauding mummy. It's not clear just why the robot needed the body and the brain of a man to function, but the hulking automaton – with its clumsy movements yet deadly exterior – is obviously a topical nod to Nuclear paranoia (which, from what I've seen, wasn't so much a concern of the Mexi-horror subgenre).The one-on-one between the two 'monsters' is O.K. – the robot has the upper hand at first but, once the controlling device is destroyed, the mummy is able to take it apart in a matter of seconds! While the appearance by the hero's pesky brother is thankfully limited this time around, the latter's sidekick – somewhat incongruously – also reverts to his cowardly persona here.With this film's ending, the Aztec Mummy saga is brought to a nice closure – as heroine Rosita Arenas (the reincarnation of the mummy's lover) returns the Aztec breastplate and bracelet to Popoca and appeals to it to seek a definitive (and well-deserved) rest in the ancient temple. I've failed to mention in my comments about the two earlier films in the series, the important contribution of the musical score – simply but perfectly evoking the requisite aura of mood, mystery and dread.