Great Film overall

Good movie but grossly overrated

Absolutely Fantastic

Absolutely Brilliant!

This Mexican version of The Mummy (1932) cant even compare to the original, its absurd, boring, dull and predictable. For being the first film in a series its not really all that memorable, the monster doesn't make an appearance until like an hour in, this movie is 80 minutes, this leaves us with about 20 minutes of the most boring mummy action I have seen (maybe Curse of Bigfoot has the worst) but otherwise its a fairly decent film with decent acting, decent camera work and its decently written.The plot is really just the same thing as the Universal film, but with a few minor (and forced) changes, none of that made this any more interesting or attractive. My biggest problem is that it takes too long to get anywhere and becomes very tedious really fast.Not too bad but its not good either.

When I first saw this I was 6 years old and it scared men almost to death. Even though the trilogy ended a few months later (in 1958) I remember I was disappointed with the "human robot" ending of the Aztec mummy trilogy. I still think that this Aztecan mummy could have been better exploited in films, but I guess that even for the producers it was such a discovery that when they realized what they had in hand, they had already blown it apart, with the lowest budgets and the retelling with minimum variations of the same story in parts 2 and 3 ("The Curse of the Aztec Mummy", and the awful "The Aztec Mummy Against the Humanoid Robot"). Maybe the reason is that its main writer, Alfredo Salazar (brother of producer-actor Abel Salazar, the man behind Fernando Méndez' 1957 classic "The Vampire") was marginally interested in horror films. Even if he also has to his credited the original script for Benito Alazraki's "Devil Doll Men" (1961), most of the movies Alfredo wrote were about wrestling stars, fighting the occasional monster. As frequent in Mexican horror films, there is also a mystery here: nobody seems to know the name of the little girl who played Dr. Almada's daughter.

This so called horror film was cut many times to make other so called horror films that were brought to the U.S. by K.Gordon Murray , who translated a few low budget Mexican horror films , like some of the El Santo films and then sold them to the drive- in circuit in the 60s .The ''Angel'' who is the hero of this film , gets his arse kicked throughout the film . He never wins a fight and the mummy saves them all in the end , but its a real bad/good gem in my book .Between the bad dubbing , the bad acting and the bad make-up , there are more than a few laughs to make it a somewhat pleasurable waste of time , so give it a try if you've some time to kill , there are worse ways to waste time !!

All too often, "low budget" translates into "minimal talent" or, worse still, a total absence thereof. Many of the El Santo movies, as much as I begrudgingly like them, can boast little in the way of either coherent story lines or competent film-making. The same is true for the Paul Naschy werewolf movies (most of which are unbelievably bad). A surprising exception to the rule is THE AZTEC MUMMY. Although the print I saw wasn't pristine (it was washed-out), the performances of the players combined with some genuinely good craftsmanship to produce a very watchable- and downright enjoyable- little movie. With the notable exception of a very long ritual at one point, the movie moves right along. THE AZTEC MUMMY VS. THE ROBOT, while made up of a lot of filler (flashbacks from at least two previous films, including the first), was just as good. If you're looking for some very well done no-budget monster flicks, give the Aztec Mummy the once-over.