dbborroughs 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.

MartinHafer 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.

Andrew Leavold 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.

Michael O'Keefe 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!