The Aztec mummy versus the human robot

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Movie
German title The Aztec mummy versus the human robot
Original title La momia azteca versus el robot humano
Country of production Mexico
original language Spanish
Publishing year 1958
length 65 minutes
Rod
Director Rafael Portillo
script Guillermo Calderón
Alfredo Salazar
production Guillermo Calderón
music Antonio Díaz Conde
camera Enrique Wallace
cut Jorge Bustos
occupation

The Aztec Mummy Against the Human Robot (OT: La momia azteca contra el robot humano ) is a Mexican horror film by Rafael Portillo from 1958.

action

Dr. Eduardo Almada brings two scientists over to tell them about the current situation. Both of them attended a psychology congress five years ago, at which Almada reported on his theory that hypnotized people can immerse themselves in their former lives. His thesis was then panned out. However, he tested it on his wife Flor, who immersed herself under hypnosis in her earlier life as Aztec Xochitl. She fell in love with the warrior Popoca and wanted to flee with him, but was taken prisoner by the priest. Popoca was buried alive while Xochitl was sacrificed to the Aztec god. She wore a chain and a breastplate that showed the way to the Aztec treasure in hieroglyphics . Popoca was again put under a curse that forced him to take care of both pieces of jewelry forever.

Almada continues in his report. He went to the Aztec pyramid with Flor, their son, assistant Pinacate and Flor's father. They found Xochitl's remains here and took the breastplate. Since the hieroglyphs could only be deciphered in combination with the chain, Almada, Pinacate and Flor's father went back to the pyramid shortly afterwards, where they met Popoca's mummy, who attacked the group. In the aftermath, the mummy came to Almada's house and kidnapped Flor to sacrifice her. Flor could be freed, whereby her father was killed and the pyramid collapsed. Things changed when criminal scientist Dr. Krupp, who pursued Almada's activities, stole both pieces of jewelry from the crumbling pyramid and kidnapped Flor and Almada's son. So he got Almada to decipher the hieroglyphs for him. The Aztec gold should enable Krupp to conduct an expensive experiment. Before the decryption was complete, however, the mummy appeared, attacked Krupp and his henchman Bruno, and took the two pieces of jewelry. Krupp managed to escape. A little later he manipulated Flor, whom he could bring under his power as a sleepwalker. Since Flor could receive the waves of the mummy, Krupp led them to the old cemetery, where the mummy slept in a mausoleum. Krupp knew that he could not take the jewelry without waking the mummy. Almada and his men also found the mummy later and did not wake her.

Years passed before Krupp now seems to be active again. A few days ago, a body, a brain, a radium machine and lead disappeared. The search for the lead buyer leads Almada and Pinacate to Krupp's laboratory. Both men are captured. Krupp shows them his great invention: He has created a radium-powered human robot that is now supposed to fight the mummy. Krupp and Bruno go to the cemetery with the robot; Almada and Pinacate break free and follow Flor and the police to the cemetery. Here they witness how the mummy defeats the robot and then kills Krupp and Bruno. Flor soothes the mummy and hands her the breastplate and the chain. She apologizes that neither artifact should have been stolen; the mummy goes away.

production

After La momia azteca (1957) and The Curse of the Aztec Mummy, La momia azteca contra el robot humano was the third film about Dr. Eduardo Almada, his wife Flor and the evil Dr. Croup. The film largely contains flashback scenes from previous films, for example, Flor's father, Dr. Sepúlveda already killed by the mummy in Part 1 (the film only uses archive material at this point). The film was shot in CLASA Studios in Mexico. The film constructions come from Javier Torres Torija .

La momia azteca contra el robot humano opened in Mexican cinemas on July 17, 1958. The comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) presented the film on November 25, 1989, where it was commented on in the style of the series humorous. In German-speaking countries it was on the Internet from January 9, 2017 under the title The Aztec Mummy Against the Human Robot .

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