Uriah43 This is the third film in "The Aztec Mummy" trilogy and it happens to be the weakest in the series. During a lengthy recap of the first two movies we are informed that 5 years have passed since "Dr. Eduardo Almada" (Ramon Gay) and his wife "Flor Almada" (Rosa Arenas) were involved in the incident in which the evil scientist "Dr. Krupp" (Luis Aceves Castaneda) tried to steal a certain Aztec breastplate and bracelet only to be prevented from doing so by the Aztec mummy named "Popoca" (Angel Di Stefani). But even after two unsuccessful attempts Dr. Krupp is still determined to get his hands on the hidden treasure of the Aztecs and this time he has invented a "human robot" to do his evil bidding for him. At any rate, rather than detail the entire movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that while the entire story was pretty good it became quite apparent that there simply weren't enough resources available to carry it out on a successful level. As I stated earlier, a good fourth of the movie was taken up by the retelling of the first and second movies in the series. Considering that this movie only lasted 65 minutes that's quite a bit of film which could have been devoted to the matter at hand--but wasn't. Along with that the robot looked quite comical and required a great deal of discipline not to laugh out loud. However, it should be remembered that this movie was made in the 1950's and so some allowances should probably be made. Even so, there was simply too much material that needed time and depth in order for this movie to work and it simply wasn't available. Below average.

sol **SPOILERS** The third and mercifully last of the Aztec Mummy trilogy in the fact that the series major star-besides the Mummy- actor Ramon Gay, as Dr. Eduardo Almada, was gunned down by the outraged husband of a woman he was having an affair with on May 28, 1960! Still that didn't stop Gay, in him being edited into them from his previous films, from being in a number of future Mexican horror movies made over the next four years after his death.In "Robot vs the Aztec Mummy" we have the once again mad scientist Dr. Krupp trying to get his hands on the Mummy's golden breastplate and bracelet in order, by having them deciphered, to find the Aztez treasure that's been secretly buried somewhere in modern Mexico City over 500 years ago. "Robot vs the Aztec Mummy" is not much as a movie in itself in that its made up of stock footage of the previous Aztec Mummy films that take up over half of the films running time.After getting introduced to the movie's cast members, some who have been killed in the previous Aztec Mummy films, we get down to the real nitty gritty in it involving the evil as well as criminally insane Dr. Krupp also know as "The Bat". Dr. Krupp-who looks like a wild eyed and crazed Orson Wells-is a man with boundless visions of grandeur in him not only uncovering the long lost Aztec treasure but now, unlike in the two previous movies he was in, creating life and using it in making an army of human robots to take over the world. An idea he must have gotten from watching Ed Wood's 1955 "Atomic Superman" classic "Bride of the Monster".Unable to handle the Mummy in his two other encounters with it, where he ended up getting thrown by it into a snake pit filled with deadly rattlers, Dr. Krupp had created a robot, with a human cadaver stuffed in it, to the job, of doing in the Mummy, for him. With he Mummy sleeping in its tomb at a local Mexico City cemetery Dr. Krupp has his Robot-Man brake into the Mummy's crypt to do battle with it and destroy it with its bolts of deadly radiation. ***SPOILERS*** The big built-up to the Aztec Mummy Robot-Man confrontation turns to be a big let-down with the Mummy having no trouble at all dispatching the "Tin-Man" in less then 30 seconds together with its creator Dr. Krupp. All this while both Dr. Almada and his friend and assistant Pinacate, who came to the Mummy's aid, have nothing at all to do but sit back and watch the action. Now without the mad and off-the-wall Dr. Krupp annoying it the Mummy can go back to its eternal resting place without ever worrying about the problems of the modern world at large, like Dr. Krupp, that it has really no interest in.

Michael_Elliott Momia Azteca Contra el Robot Humano, La (1958) * (out of 4) I've seen the American dubbed version of this, known as The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy but this was my first viewing of the Mexican version. In this third film, The Bat somehow survives and in order to steal the priceless jewels from the mummy, he creates a human robot. This film runs 64-minutes and twenty-five of those minutes is nothing more than scenes from the previous two films. The new footage here is all pretty lifeless and dull with the exception of the robot, which has to be the poorest looking one in film history. The big fight between the robot and the mummy is dull as well. As bad as this is things got much worse with The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec 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.