Tuesday, April 11, 2017

The Robot Vs. The Aztec Mummy [1958]

[Cross-posted on the Bad Movie Night Facebook page.]

So grad school continues to have a direct effect on the ability of half of the bad movie night to actually engage in the films. There are only two more weeks so hold on. Instead of watch what is sure to be a favorite, "Singham 2," we decided to do a double feature of things that are only about an hour. Our first movie, "Robot Vs. The Aztec Mummy," is a dubbed Mexican horror film that pretty much followed a lot of the plot of the unmemorable "Wrestling Women Vs. The Aztec Mummy."

The plot of this movie is about 75% flashback. We are told of some kind of magical breastplate that a doctor and his collegues went to find but . . . mummy. There's also some plot about a girl being telepathically controlled. So much of this movie is flashback, we spent most of the movie waiting for the movie to start. Particularly when the title is "Robot Vs. The Aztec Mummy," there's gotta be some robot eventually, right? Not until the last 15 minutes of the film, but oh, those fifteen minutes. When the mad scientist, who has made a robot using human parts for some odd reason, finally reveals his robot that he has been hyping up, it looks like something made by a fourth grader for Halloween. Then we got 20 seconds of solid gold when the robot and the mummy fight and the mummy basically tears the robot to pieces. It's in the last two minutes of the film and it's the only thing worth watching.
Quote:
"You'll go up to your room and you'll go to sleep, and when you awaken you will act quite normally."

Spoon Rating: 2

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