The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy

1958 "See the relentless machine battle the gruesome corpse"
2.4| 1h5m| NR| en
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A mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries old living mummy.

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Cinematográfica Calderón S.A.

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Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
unbrokenmetal A treasure is guarded by a mummy, an Aztec warrior who came back to life centuries after his death. The mad scientist Dr Krupp builds a robot to fight the mummy and get the treasure. „There you have the greatest creation of man's intelligence, a human robot, doctor! If it lives, my triumph will be complete (...) No human being on this earth can oppose me", Krupp states a little too optimistic.Two thirds of the running time are mainly consisting of flashbacks to the previous two movies, 'The Aztec Mummy' and 'Curse of the Aztec Mummy'. Only the last third tells us the new part of the story, that is not very much and clearly deserves the low rating here. The budget must have been a tenner for the silver robot paint. Any possible cliché is included, especially the villain loves to explain his cunning plan for world domination to everyone around instead of getting on with his business. Still 'The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy' was OK to watch for me, because I didn't know the predecessors, so it worked as an introduction to the series. You have to consider in those days they had no home video yet, so the inclusion of previously seen material was less annoying than it is for today's audiences.
masercot This movie delivered.With a title like Aztec Mummy v. the Robot, you expect drama, action, Aztec mummies and robots; and, by God, this movie deliver two out of four of those. The acting was kind of odd, as if the plot of the dubbed movie was different than that of the original. The hero resembled Marvel Comics' Dr. Strange uncannily. The other male lead looked like a nauseous version of Buddy Holly.Why was the mummy driven away by a cross? Why are scientists, in Mexico, allowed to pillage antiquities at will? What is a doctor of medicine doing practicing archeology and how can he read ancient hieroglyphics? Wasn't it convenient that the doctor knew a soil analyst? Why is the reincarnated princess wearing bags on her feet? And, why was the rattlesnake pit full of boa constrictors?This movie was bad, but very enjoyable. And, short. Mostly presented in flashback form. If it had starred a professional wrestler, this movie could've been a classic.
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.
MartinHafer The first 2/3 of this film wasn't that dissimilar to the American mummy films of the 30s and 40s. Two lovers in ancient Mexico dared to defy the law and were doomed to die. One became an Aztec mummy whose job it was to guard the sacred treasure and his lady love. And the lady was reincarnated in the present day and the mummy was naturally attracted to her. So far, it's all the typical mummy film...though it's quite a bit slower and duller than the American versions. Oh, and of course the Aztec mummy looked really, really crappy.However, into this standard but boring film there is a super-villain. Why? I dunno--it sure didn't make any sense to have one. It seems this villain wants the treasure and he manages to hypnotize the lady and have her show them where the Aztec treasure is buried. Why does he need the treasure? Well, to buy the equipment needed to make an army of atomic robots, dummy! But first he has to construct a single mummy to defeat the mummy, as the mummy has so far been unstoppable.You've got to see these "human-robots" as they look like the enormous clunky robots from Flash Gordon and other serials BUT they have a rubber head of a supposed dead guy inside! They really look hilariously funny and seeing the conclusion when there is a huge battle between the lethargic mummy and the equally slow robot is worth sitting through the rest of the dull movie. Both battle in super-slow-motion like they are bathed in taffy... and it's done in such an artless and silly fashion that it is bound to elicit chuckles--certainly not thrills.Overall, the film is dreadfully dull and a muddled mess--especially at the end. However, for bad movie fans, it's a must-see--it's bad but unintentionally funny and great to watch and laugh at with friends.