The Curse of the Aztec Mummy (1957) User Reviews

Curse of the droopy drawers

[evilskip · 4/10 · 28 March 2001]

In 1957 3 Aztec Mummy movies were filmed almost back to back to back.They were The Aztec Mummy, Curse Of The Aztec Mummy and Robot Vs The Aztec Mummy.The 1st one was bought by Jerry Warren and butchered horribly for US release as Attack Of The Mayan Mummy.K Gordon Murray bought the last two for US release.

A few minutes of The Aztec Mummy shows up in Curse Of The Aztec Mummy.Dr Krupp aka The Bat has been arrested.Dr Almada,Flor and his assistant Pincate feel safe.However a masked crimefighter in droopy drawers and a cape calling himself The Angel shows up to warn Dr Alamada that nobody is safe from The Bat.Sure enough when The Bat is being transported to prison his gang attacks.The Angel shows up and promptly gets his arse kicked.The Bat escapes.

Dr Krupp plots to steal the Aztec breastplate & bracelet from the tomb of Popoca.He gives us a lengthy flashback from The Aztec Mummy.Flor (Dr Almada's fiance) was hypnotized to reveal a past life.She was a hand maiden to one of the Aztec Gods.But she & Popoca did the wild thing and they were sentenced to death.

So Krupp kidnaps Flora and the doctor.The Angel shows up and once again gets his arse kicked.He and the doctor are prisoners as Krupp, his men and Flora search for the Aztec loot.They find Popoca and his is awfully sore at being roused.The gang escapes with the booty.

When they get back to the Bat's hideout yet another fight ensues.Guess what?The Angel gets his arse kicked again.He is unmasked to reveal his true identity ending his crimefighting days.Good thing too unless he liked getting beaten up every twenty minutes.

Krupp forces Almada to translate the symbols on the breastplate that leads to the treasure.But Popoca shows up ready to kill everybody in sight.

This is good for a laugh as it tries to inject a Santo like crimefighter into the Mummy sub genre.The Mummy isn't on screen much at all which is a sore point with me.However it is a bit of brainless fun.

Exactly what you would expect from a 60 year old Mexican movie.

[13Funbags · 5/10 · 26 April 2017]

This movie has some terrible acting and dialogue.They say some completely ridiculous things but I won't waste time repeating them. This is the story of a rich scientist who has a small daughter,no wife and a young boy who we eventually learn is his brother.An evil scientist kidnaps his girlfriend and daughter while the young boy and some gay guy get all weird. Plus there's a wrestler named Angel.Halfway through it becomes "The" Angel. There's a ton of silly fights.A cop gets shot and gently sets his gun down before he dies.A bad guy bumps into some bottles that don't break and starts screaming like it's killing him.There's plenty of silliness. Did I mention there's some stuff about a mummy too? At barely over an hour,this movie is worth your time.

CURSE OF THE AZTEC MUMMY (Rafael Portillo, 1957) **

[Bunuel1976 · 5/10 · 25 June 2007]

This is an inferior first sequel to THE AZTEC MUMMY (1957), eschewing much of the atmosphere and metaphysics of the original for comic-strip antics and cliffhanger situations involving a masked avenger (whose identity is even more incredible than the revelation of the villain at the end of THE AZTEC MUMMY) and a private snake pit! Despite the title, the appearance of the mummy itself is almost an afterthought – since it's relegated only to the climax. Though barely over an hour in length, the film features extensive flashback footage from its predecessor and, similar to it, the scenes involving the mummy are extremely dark – the lighting during the finale changes drastically from one shot to the other – perhaps so as to conceal the rather poor make-up job! The comedy relief isn't very pronounced this time around (as it turns out, for plot purposes) – while the villain (incidentally, the scene depicting his escape from the clutches of the police at the beginning of the film utilizes footage from a gun battle featured in the first entry in the series!) here completely forsakes his "Bat" persona on his way to becoming the mad scientist in the next instalment...

A mummy holds secrets of the future.

[michaelRokeefe · 2/10 · 20 January 2002]

Released in the U.S. as CURSE OF THE AZTEC MUMMY in 1957, this movie seems to be made cheap and in a hurry. Hurry for it to be over is not a good compliment for a movie that only runs 65 minutes. When horror is done badly it becomes comedy. The evil Dr. Krupp(Luis A. Castaneda) also known as the desperate criminal The Bat continues his search for the breast plate and bracelet of an Ancient Aztec mummy. Dr. Almada (Ramon Gay) must protect his fiance Flor(Rosa Arenas)for she is a reincarnate of an ancient handmaiden that knows the location of the coveted treasure. Flor is kidnapped by the Bat's gang of hoodlums and coming to the rescue is a hooded, capped and haphazard fighter of crime The Angel(Crox Alvardo), who gets more ass whippings than a red headed step-child. So much for a hero. So much for horror that turns into laughable mystery. Stick to ice cold Mexican beer, a bowl of salsa and a dozen beef taquitos!

Aztec Mummy

[Michael_Elliott · 26 February 2008]

Maldicion de la Momia Azteca, La (1957)

** (out of 4)

Corny sequel has The Bat escaping police custody and kidnapping the scientist and his girlfriend (both from the first film). This time around there's also an overweight, masked wrestler named The Angel who tries to help matters and of course there's the aztec mummy who is nice enough to stop by for about five minutes. While the first film was a tad bit more serious in tone, this one here is pure camp from start to finish and manages to get quite a few unintentional laughs. I couldn't help but laugh my ass off at The Angel who has to be one of the dumbest "heroes" in film history. His goal is to protect the scientist and his family but he gets them in more trouble than anything else. The scene where The Angel gets beat up by The Bat's men is priceless. This film only runs 63-minutes but I still can't figure out why they only use the mummy for five minutes. Oh well.

The middle child of a schlocky, confusing trilogy.

[PCC0921 · 3/10 · 17 September 2020]

So, this is the second installment of the Aztec Mummy trilogy and the third installment, Robot VS the Aztec Mummy (1958), was the one that got the most attention and exposure in the U.S. In the 60 years since these came out, most of us saw the third installment and are now back-tracking to see the other two that are available now. The third film is more of an edited down version of the first two movies, told through flashback, with some extra footage added in to round out this confusing, lost, badly scripted, badly dubbed, trilogy. I had no idea Angel, the Wrestler-guy was part of this. He's nowhere to be seen in Robot VS the Aztec Mummy (1958), so that was somewhat interesting and somewhat disturbing to find out. Why was he cut? Who knows?

Anyway, this film explains a lot about why certain things were omitted from the third film. The scenes with Angel are atrocious, right down to the fake machine guns, so fake that they don't even flash or have smoke coming out of them. They are totally shaken by the actors to show the machine gun effect. Badly done machine gun sound effects are used too. Very elementary school. It's understandable why the wrestler-guy was taken out for the third film. I will say this, the fight scenes and action scenes with Angel remind you of the classic cliff-hangers that Hollywood put out in the 30s, 40s and 50s. It had a nice feel for that. Probably the only thing that keeps this film from getting a 1 or a 2.

3 (Unwatchable MyGrade) = 3 IMDB

Second in the Aztec Mummy trilogy

[kevinolzak · 3/10 · 4 September 2019]

"The Curse of the Aztec Mummy" (the literal translation for "La Maldicion de la Momia Azteca") follows the story from "La Momia Azteca," second in a trilogy concluding with "The Robot vs the Aztec Mummy," all directed by Rafael Portillo and scripted by Alfredo Salazar. It's essentially a 1957 Mexican take on the then-current Bridey Murphy craze, which inspired Hollywood cheapies like Roger Corman's "The Undead," W. Lee Wilder's "Fright," Alex Gordon's "The She-Creature," Peggie Castle's "Back from the Dead," Michael Landon's "I Was a Teenage Werewolf," Ed Wood's "The Bride and the Beast," and Lon Chaney's "The Alligator People." Like the later incarnation of the Aztec Mummy in 1964's "The Wrestling Women vs the Aztec Mummy," the monster's origin is virtually identical to Boris Karloff's in the 1932 version, a high priest who dared to love virgin handmaiden to the gods Xochitl, his name in this series Popoca, played in all three by Italian actor Angel Di Stefani. The main thrust of the initial narrative is Professor Almada (Ramon Gay) putting his young fiancée Flor (Rosina Arenas) into a hypnotic state to learn about her past life as an Aztec princess, put to death for loving Popoca, wearing a breastplate and bracelet, items that reveal more hidden treasures within the Great Pyramid of Yucatan. Of equal importance is the masked villain The Bat, who covets the Aztec riches for himself and is caught by police at the film's conclusion, unmasked as mad doctor Krupp (Luis Aceves Castaneda), in search of the treasure for some great experiment. The mummy doesn't actually come to life until an hour into its 80 minute running time, spending the last 12 minutes venturing out to recapture the stolen artifacts plus the reincarnation of his beloved princess to sacrifice her to the gods a second time just as Karloff's Imhotep sought to do (this mummy resembles photos of the real thing, and despite the brevity of its appearances is rather effective). The girl is rescued before an explosion buries the mummy and her father inside the tomb, not seen in the US until Jerry Warren's patchwork "Attack of the Mayan Mummy," which jettisoned most of the 1957 footage for lengthy talking head scenes featuring the usual suspects like Bruno Ve Sota. This first sequel kicked off with Dr. Krupp's henchmen aiding his escape to kidnap Flor and use his own hypnotic powers to make her lead him to the tomb and the breastplate left behind. Also present for this lone entry is the caped crusader The Angel, a non wrestler in need to rescue from a teen accomplice, who gets himself unmasked as Almada's supposedly cowardly assistant, along for the ride once the villains invade the tomb with 15 minutes left in an hour long feature. Krupp takes what he needs among the rubble, the mummy rising for a couple minutes of menace, reappearing in the final 180 seconds to put The Bat in his place by tossing him into his own death trap filled with poison snakes. Only one five minute sequence depicting the sacrifice of the Aztec princess is recycled from "La Azteca Momia," while the series finale would wind up using more stock footage to pad out its hour long running time.

Okay but still slow visit with the Aztec Mummy (it has tons of footage from the first film)

[dbborroughs · 5/10 · 22 August 2009]

Second of the three Aztec mummy films picks up where the first film left off with The Bat, now exposed as Dr Krupp still going after the hidden Aztec treasure. Again using past life regression he tries to find the hiding spot and eventually runs up against the mummy. There is a great deal of flashback material in this film from the first movie with the result that even at an hour the film feels padded. (Actually had I not just seen the first film it wouldn't have been bad). This time out the evil doctor also has to contend with a masked wrestler named the Angel. Why he's involved never really makes sense other than the person who is really Angel wants his identity hidden. Its not a horrible movie, but it is a slow one. Its also the sort of thing that most people point to as the creakiness of Mexican horror films. Actually its the creakiness of the ones that got a great deal of play on American TV. As with the first film the mummy only really shows up in the final minutes (though there are some brief flashback footage) so the inclusion of the mummy is more a come on than a real statement. And despite the apparent demise of Dr Krupp he's back in the third film Robot VS The Aztec Mummy. Better than the first film, as to whether you see the film is up to you.

Mummy Dumbest.

[mark.waltz · 1/10 · 6 May 2021]

I'm wondering if the original Spanish version of this is as bad or did Jerry Warren take the original print, get a bunch of English speaking non-actors and put together a whole story unrelated that makes absolutely no sense. At any rate, I can tell by the visuals that the original was no winner either because it's cheap looking, with a laboratory that makes Bela Lugosi's lab in "Bride of the Monster" look like something out of a high-end hospital.

There's a silly looking crime fighter called "the bat" that looks like one of those hideous '70s host of horror movies on TV, and a heavyset villainous doctor who resembles Laird Cregar and whom nobody in their right mind would take someone in need of medical assistance to. A flashback to the past times of the actual Aztecs makes no sense and context with everything else on screen. Fortunately it's just an hour, but that hour is so dull that you might find yourself doing other errands while attempting to get through it.

Aztec Mummy

[Spuzzlightyear · 3/10 · 22 March 2012]

Totally anti-climatic movie here featuring an escaped convict wanting buried treasure, but has to rely on a scientist who solely knows where the treasures are located, a professor who can decipher the hieroglyphics on a map for the exact location. But never fear! El Santo, caped, masked wrestler, is here to save the day! Or is he? He can barely fight his way out of a parking lot, let alone defeat the bad guys. Dreadful on so many levels, with an ending that's just so anti-climatic (El Santo is totally reduced to a non-character) that features, oh that's right, a mummy, you'll be scratching your head and wondering what the heck you just saw.

The original Aztec mummy is back...but this time, who cares?!

[planktonrules · 2/10 · 11 June 2009]

Wow, does this sequel to THE AZTEC MUMMY get strange! While the first film was a reasonably competent recreation of the American mummy films, by this second film, any attempts to make a sane and coherent film were out the window! No longer did the film make much sense--instead becoming very similar to the worst of the American movie serials of the 1940s. Sadly, although CURSE OF THE AZTEC MUMMY was really bad, by the third (and thankfully final) film, the plot became even more ridiculous and the villains became so silly that the film rightfully earned a place on IMDb's Bottom 100 films! Now this is NOT to say CURSE OF THE AZTEC MUMMY isn't absolutely wretched--it's just about as bad as the third film and also should have made the list. How it received an overall score of about 3 is a puzzler--it's not nearly that good!!

CURSE OF THE AZTEC MUMMY begins where the last film left off--the true identity of the villain "the Bat" is now known and he's in police custody. Unfortunately, the cops are idiots and when the Bat's gang attacks the bus with the bat and guards inside (it's on the way to prison), so the villain is easily rescued by the gang. Now the cops COULD have stayed in the bus or used it for protection, but instead they mostly just ran outside to be shot. And, although there were about an equal number of cops and crooks were about even the fight was quickly finished--since the cops were so stupid. Now here's where it gets really silly. First, the machine guns are clearly NOT being fired (not even blanks) and the actors shake them up and down unconvincingly as poor sound effects are supposed to convince us they are really shooting. Second, after the cops are beaten, a luchador appears!!! A luchador is a Mexican professional wrestler--complete with a lucha libre mask! Unfortunately, the wrestler is not el Santo (hero of countless films) but an idiot known as "el Ángel"--and he is soon beaten up by the gang as well! Why they did not simply shoot him is beyond me. They supposedly were going to run him over instead, but when he moved aside at the last minute, no one in the Bat's car noticed that there was no bump or even a squish--and hey just drove away without killing the lousy fighter!

Well, at this point, the villains are obviously pretty dumb but at least the Bat is out of prison, a bunch of cops are dead and the Angel needs to explain to his followers why he was so quickly beaten up by the baddies. So, you could say that the baddies are in the lead. However, they STILL need to steal with golden treasure from the Aztec mummy. So, like the last film, the Bat decides to once again hypnotize the lady who is the reincarnated priestess from the Pre-Columbian days in order to find out where the treasure is hidden. We are then treated to a very long and mostly unnecessary clip from the first film explaining all about this lady and the mummy. Apparently, even though the film is BARELY an hour long, the film makers thought this would be okay and no one would notice or care about the extensive use of old footage.

After the woman is kidnapped, the Angel soon reappears and, guess what?! He has the crap kicked out of him again!! And, after this, the gang turns its violent impulses on the lady's fiancé and pummel him. Thank you, Angel, for all your help!! But don't worry, as the Angel is being thrown into a holding cell, he springs into action....and is once again beaten up!! And, once the door is shut, the floor begins to move--revealing a pit of dangerous snakes. Oddly, however, the snakes are totally still--either indicating they are all dead, rubber or the room is so cold that the snakes are in a state of torpor. Either way, I can't see why the Angel is particularly worried about the snakes. I assume it's just some phobia, as he clings to a swinging lamp and calls out to a little boy to rescue him. Some man of steel!! At any point, I almost expected his mommy to come to his assistance! In the end, however, you do learn more about why the luchador is such a putz....but there's yet more! Once the baddies desecrated the Aztec mummy's grave, just as it happened in the last film, the freaking thing came to life and kicked butt...or at least growled a lot. Big surprise here. You would have thought they would have had a contingency plan...like a cannon or some angry chihuahuas to fight the beast.

Oddly, at this point the nice doctor (the lady's fiancé) is roped into helping the Bat because he doesn't want his snookums to die. About this same time, the Angel is once again captured and unmasked...and it turns out he fights like a wimp because he really is a wimp, I mean, Pinacate--the comic relief from the first and third films. Now, this isn't a HUGE surprise because IMDb actually lets this secret out on the main page listing, as it says the actor Crox Alvarado plays both Pinacate AND the Angel!!

In the final exciting scene, the Bat is tossed into the snake pit by the mummy. This time, the snakes are actually moving about, so it appears he's truly dead. So why does he come back for the next film?!

Overall, the original film idea is out the window and was replaced by a movie serial-like film for particularly stupid and undemanding people. Badly written and lousy throughout--though it is fun to watch if you want to laugh at incompetence from start to finish.

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

[newportbosco · 9/10 · 7 January 2007]

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.

Superb beans-and-cheese shocker

[El-Stumpo · 6/10 · 1 November 2007]

Curse Of The Aztec Mummy is the second of a three-film series filmed back-to-back by cheapskate production company Calderon in 1957. Exploiting the Aztec Mummy angle is a cost-effective attempt at creating a homegrown monster, and it's certainly a unique re-imagining of the classic Egyptian model – tatty coat, Keith Richards hair, and the oddest dubbing job by K. Gordon Murray that makes it sound like a hungry wino. Or, for that matter, Keith Richards on a North American tour.

Curse… begins where the first Aztec Mummy finishes: the eeeeevil Dr Krupp (also known as "The Bat") is busted out of police custody by his evil henchmen, and plans to kidnap the good Dr Almada and his fiancée Flora. In a lengthy flashback, Krupp relates the first film's integral plot point in which a hypnotized Flora, an Aztec princess in a previous life, relates the whereabouts of the Aztec treasure. She was put to death, while her treacherous lover, an Aztec warrior named Popoca, was cursed to eternal life while being buried alive. Almada wants Flora to prove his theories on reincarnation; Krupp, with his eeeeevil beer-gut and Van Dyke beard, just wants the cash.

Enter The Angel, a masked wresting champion of justice, who comes to Almada's aid, but ends up hanging by a light bulb over a pit of rattle snakes. Meanwhile "The Bat" and the bound Flora are chased around an Aztec pyramid by the resurrected Mummy of Popoca, who after countless centuries is still protective of his ex-girlfriend… …But of course it's not the final word from the eeeeevil Dr Krupp. Virtually the entire cast and crew return to do it all again in the third film Robot vs The Aztec Mummy, released in mid-1958. All three black and white movies clock in at just over an hour, and with their episodic, heavy padding, quasi-cliffhanger structure and stagy melodrama filled with cardboard cutout gangsters and mad scientists, are reminiscent of the old American serials of the 30s and 40s. What you didn't see north of the border is a masked wrestler driving up to a crime scene in a sports car. And therein lies their charm.

An oddball that just doesn't have enough of a spark to leave a mark

[I_Ailurophile · 5/10 · 9 September 2023]

I, for one, was highly impressed with 'La momia Azteca,' a 50s genre flick with strong energy that far outpaced most of its contemporaries. It wasn't perfect, but it was well made in most every regard, and I had a great time watching. Not least with the same cast and crew involved, how could I resist the temptation to watch its sequel that picks up right where its predecessor left off? Well, here's one issue that crops up fairly quickly: I'm not going to sit here and impugn in its entirety a genre with which I'm not expressly familiar, and which may well bear merit in its own fashion. What I will say, however, is that the introduction of a luchador superhero into the mix immediately squashes the earnestness with which the prior film was made. One's enthusiasm is further dampened when we're subsequently greeted with a flashback sequence, recycling footage, that rehashes the plot of 'La momia Azteca' for more than five minutes. If the latter production was that unlikely 50s horror feature that's made with sincere care and intent, 'La maldición de la momia Azteca' - produced concurrently, and released only months later - falls into the category of over the top B-movies that don't come off well more than sixty years later.

As much as I appreciated the writing of Alfredo Salazar and producer Guillermo Calderon the first time around, the script here is more questionable - not just because of the luchador, or the flashback, but because the story at large is just thinner. One is reminded of how Disney has had a history of capitalizing on the major success of a big release by churning out "direct to video" sequels that are all but unheard of, and which trample the characters, story, and viewers' good will into dust. This isn't to say that the writing in this picture is outright bad, but the nature of one supporting character is significantly changed in the weirdest of ways, the tone is much different and less vibrant, and even on paper 'Maldición' lacks the thrumming vitality that made its antecedent so absorbing. It almost seems like the cast is less committed, too, as if they were equally unenthused by the new material. True, Rafael Portillo's direction is fine, and this is solidly made in every other capacity. Yet even the music of composer Antonio Díaz Conde, who definitely contributed a terrific spark before, is more common and less striking here. It turns out that making related films simultaneously does not guarantee equal quality, and it's hard to get excited about this.

Moreover, while this sequel is well made, including the sets, costume design, stunts, and effects, in other ways that are at least as important and surely more meaningful it's kind of scattered. As per the very premise we do revisit the horror airs that were so vivid in the last stretch of the previous title. Before we get there within the last quarter of the length, however - and only for a few collective minutes at that - this comes across as a somewhat generic conglomeration of the action, crime, drama, and superhero genres: suitable in and of itself, and not wholly uninteresting, but paling so significantly in comparison to what all involved achieved just a few months before that frankly, there is no comparison to be made. With all this firmly in mind, it's hard to particularly form a recommendation for this film. I say this not because it's completely unenjoyable, but because I don't know who I'd ever recommend it to, or under what circumstances, except as a strange curiosity. The entertainment value is minimal, and all the best efforts of the cast and crew just don't account for much. Watch 'La maldición de la momia Azteca' if you want, I suppose, but as far as I'm concerned there's just not enough worth here to make it worthwhile except as a weird footnote in cinema.

"The Curse of the Aztec Mummy"

[Uriah43 · 4/10 · 12 May 2014]

This movie picks up where the previous film "The Aztec Mummy" left off with "Dr. Krupp" (Luis Aceves Castaneda) being interrogated by the police for his role as the criminal mastermind known as "The Bat". His latest caper was attempting to steal an Aztec breastplate and bracelet in order to locate an ancient Aztec treasure. To do this he needed the services of "Dr. Almada" (Ramon Gay) and his pretty fiancé "Flor Sepulveda" (Rosa Arenas) and he had no concern about kidnapping or murdering them if that becomes necessary. Now, although he was arrested, he still desperately wants this treasure, and this movie essentially begins with him getting another chance when his men rescue him during a bloody shootout on the way to prison. Attempting to help the police is a masked man known as "The Angel" whose identity is best left secret so as not to spoil the film for those who haven't seen it. Be that as it may, for a sequel to a rather average movie this film wasn't too bad all things considered. While it features the same cast and manages to keep things rolling along, one specific complaint I had was that it didn't show as much of the Aztec mummy as I would have liked. Additionally, while it isn't necessary to see the first movie it certainly wouldn't hurt--if for no other reason than to have a bit more insight into what is going on. In any case, it wasn't quite as good as "The Aztec Mummy" and for that reason I have rated it one notch below it. Slightly below average.

No, it's not *good* at all, but it sure is damn funny.

[Hey_Sweden · 5/10 · 21 June 2023]

As unintentional comedies go, this is one of the funnier ones that I've seen lately. This first sequel to "The Aztec Mummy" shows us what happens as the fiendish Dr. Krupp (Luis Aceves Castaneda) is freed from police custody by his thuggish underlings, and is still determined to plunder local Aztec treasure to finance his experiments. His plan involves hypnotizing Flora (Rosita Arenas) and getting her to revisit her past life in order to show him the way to the treasure.

But his nemeses refuse to give up despite all the beatings they take. Here, they are joined by a masked crimefighter (Crox Alvarado) in a plot point that prefigures the dominance that masked wrestlers would take in cult Mexican cinema of the 60s and 70s.

I would agree that this is far from being a "good" film, but I found it to be so stupid that it was HILARIOUS. Ridiculous dialogue, lousy dubbing, and cheesy performances abound in this silly (but mostly lively) sequel. It does feature some of the most inept heroes AND villains that one is likely to see in this sort of thing. However, there is simply too much padding in a slim story, and this thing only runs an hour and three minutes to begin with. The title character only gets a scant few minutes (if that) in which to shamble around and kill people.

As bad as this is, it still possesses enough of what I call "clunky charm" to make it passable viewing.

Five out of 10.

Cursed!

[BandSAboutMovies · 4/10 · 11 July 2020]

K. Gordon Murray seems like the perfect person - if Jerry Warren wasn't going to do it - to bring this movie to the U.S. as The Curse of the Aztec Mummy. None of the voices seem like they fit the characters - which if you know the world of Murray's films - makes perfect sense.

The evil gangster Dr. Krupp escapes from the police and hypnotizes Flor into telling him where the mummy's tomb is. But didn't the tomb and the mummy himself get blown up real good in the last movie? Why should we let common sense get in the way of things when there's a masked wrestler named The Angel showing up to help the forces of good?

You know what Krupp gets for his trouble? Popoca comes back, kills every one of his men and then throws the baddy into a pit of snakes. Watching that, Flor and her leading man say, "Let's get married." That seems to make sense after you've seen an undead version of your past life lover kill everyone and everything just. to get a gold breastplate back.

Amazingly, not the worst in the series.

[BA_Harrison · 3/10 · 3 June 2023]

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.

Cheesy yet boring at points

[MonsterVision99 · 5/10 · 2 November 2017]

This sequel to "The Aztec Mummy" is much cheesier than its predecessor, it introduces a luchador and then reveals that it was a character that we knew all along, it has much more action than the first one and becomes considerably dumber, its not any better than the first one but it is a bit more watchable.

It shares many flaws with the original, like the fact that its quite boring when nothing is happening, its cheap, trashy and its horror scenes are horribly executed, the mummy also lacks screen time in this one, it appears around the 49 minute mark, however, I don't think its too bad at least this one has some fun scenes.

This entry also makes us watch about 10 minutes of footage from the last film, something that will go out of control in the third entry "The Robot vs the Aztec Mummy" which is almost 70% stock footage.

"Curse of the Aztec Mummy" its campier and a bit more fun than the last one but its not good nor is it highly entertaining.

Updating the formula...

[Leofwine_draca · 5/10 · 10 December 2020]

CURSE OF THE AZTEC MUMMY takes the atmospheric horror of the first film and instead changes the format, including sparse horror elements but generally playing out as a comic book adventure film, heavily indebted the old-time serials. There's a sinister mad doctor bent on hypnotism and getting hold of ancient treasure for himself, plus assorted good guys trying to stop him. At an hour in length it's pretty fast-paced and choppy, with the best scenes involving Angel, one of those masked heroes beloved of Mexican cinema. Here he feels like a proto-Santo, riding around in a flash sports car and battling henchmen in the film's most fun moments.

Another great Trash!!

[elo-equipamentos · 4/10 · 14 May 2017]

I love this kind of movie that weren't available in Brazil but l found an original box from USA with subtitles em English to my Trash's Collection, this is a second movie this fabulous trilogy about Aztec Mummy pursued by Dr. Krupp as Bat (Murciélago) who want Aztec Treasure, among the characters have Angel and masquerade hero like Santo that help Dr. Almada and your beauty fiancée Flor, the plot is predicable but the movie is really funny and enjoyable too for trash's lovers only!!

An amusingly inane sequel

[Woodyanders · 8/10 · 8 December 2009]

Nefarious criminal mastermind the Bat (broadly essayed with lip-smacking wicked relish by Luis Aceves Castaneda) breaks out of jail and resumes his no-count ways. The Bat abducts both Dr. Eduardo Almada (the engaging Roman Guy) and his fiancé Flora (lovely Rosita Arenas) in order order to get his greedy hands on the Aztec mummy Popoca's treasure. Fortunately, brave, but hopelessly incompetent masked super hero the Angel (beefy wonder Crox Alvarado) comes to the (sort of) rescue. Eschewing the spooky atmosphere of the original, this sequel instead plays more like a gloriously ridiculous condensed 65 minute version of a vintage 30's serial: we've got over-the-top chortling campy villains, cheesy cliffhangers (the Angel almost buys it when he's tossed into a snake pit by the Bat), uproariously inept fisticuffs and shoot-outs, a rousing score, and a nonstop zippy pace that rarely lets up for a minute. Director Rafael Portillo and writers Alfredo Salazar and Guillermo Calderon treat this foolishness in a ludicrously straight manner, which in turn greatly adds to the considerable unintentional hilarity of the whole nutty thing (the revelation of the Angel's actual identity is especially ludicrous). Best of all, the Aztec mummy Popca actually helps save the day in the gloriously absurd and gut-busting climax. Moreover, the scenes with the Angel getting severely clobbered by the Bat's heinous henchmen are likewise positively sidesplitting. A complete dippy hoot.

A zesty, bone rattling B-Movie delight!

[Weirdling_Wolf · 7/10 · 31 July 2023]

This amiable Mexican iteration of the mummy mythos remains a zesty, bone rattling B-Movie delight! 'The Curse of the Aztec Mummy' oozes creepy/creaky atmosphere and is generously packed with thrilling Boys Own incident! Speedily playing out like a Saturday morning serial, Portillo's exotic terror treat has suave, Dr. Eduardo Almeda (Ramón Gay) and his beautiful fiancee Flor (Rosita Arenas) in the macabre midst of a terrible terror tumult unleashed by Machiavellian master criminal Dr. Krupp(Luis Aceves Castañeda).

Increasingly desperate for the hidden Aztec treasure, dastardly Dr. Krupp's cruel machinations prove boundless! After kidnapping Flor, the good Dr. Eduardo is forced to help him discover the cursed treasure's long-hidden location. There's nary a dull moment in, Rafael Portillo's exciting, breezily directed adventure. Will the heroic Luchador Angel (Crox Alvarado) thwart the diabolical Dr. Krupp? Or will his brutal henchmen finally overwhelm the plucky masked vigilante? All will be revealed, along with an memorably creepy Mummy in this entirely charming creepshow! The Curse of the Aztec Mummy is sure to cast its singularly kooky spell over another generation of horror fans. I certainly don't think it's horror heresy to say The Curse of the Aztec Mummy is no less splendidly shuddersome than the better known Hammer classic.

Second attempt

[unbrokenmetal · 7/10 · 1 January 2015]

Sequel to 'The Aztec Mummy'. The mummy is resting in peace, because the treasure items were returned to him. The evil Dr Krupp, who is known as 'The Bat' ('El Murcielago' sounds a lot more impressive in the Spanish original), is interrogated by the police, but doesn't answer any of their questions. During the transport to prison, gangsters free him and shoot the police guards, although a masked superman called 'The Angel' tried to stop that ('My mission is to do all I can to eliminate crime, but there is so much of it around', he sighs). Naturally, Dr Krupp makes a second attempt to obtain the treasure – but is he prepared for the reawakening of the mummy? Good fun, especially with 'The Angel' who loses almost all of his fights ('We've got to use our head this time', he says when he makes an attempt to improve his tactics) and probably wears the mask only because it's better if nobody recognizes him later.

More Mummy Mischief and Malarkey From Mexico...

[azathothpwiggins · 5 April 2022]

THE CURSE OF THE AZTEC MUMMY picks up right where the first film left off. The demonic Dr. Krupp (Luis Aceves Castaneda) returns with a new plot to attain Popoca's (Angelo De Stefani) golden breastplate and bracelet set, and Popoca's not happy!

This time, Dr. Almeda and Flor (Ramon Gay and Rosita Arenas) are joined by a mysterious masked figure known as "The Angel", in their attempts to thwart Krupp.

This sequel is only a tad over an hour long, including several minutes of "flashback" footage from the first film. It is nice to see the entire cast return to their roles. The addition of a masked wrestler is novel, and boosts the cheeeze factor up a few notches...