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The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy (1958) (English version + MST3K) (lemmy.ca)
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Cast

  • Ramón Gay
  • Rosita Arenas
  • Crox Alvarado
  • Luis Acevedes Castañeda

Summary

A psychiatrist uses his wife's hypnotically recovered memories of a past life as an Aztec princess to discover a hidden tomb with treasures... but they come with a curse.

And a mad scientist has a plan to overcome the curse and steal the treasure to fund his evil masterplan.

I chose this at random, cuz with a title like that, how could I resist! I did not know:

  • it was the third film in a trilogy
  • it recapped and recycled much of the first two films, which would explain why 80% seems like retelling and flashbacks.
  • it was the second movie ever riffed by Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

Despite being a brief 64 minutes, it still feels like this could have been cut another 20 minutes, and the promised "robot"-(more like a cyborg)-on-mummy action was only a few minutes at the very end.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Aw yeah, this was a monsterdon movie last december... back when I was still new to it.

https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev/the-robot-vs-the-aztec-mummy

I didn't see the previous movies so I kind of liked the Aztec parts and wished there was more of that. The villain scientist was doing his best. The robot was fun in a campy way. But mostly it was pretty tedious.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, the villain brought it to life a bit, but yeah a bit of a slog. Especially as being 80%retelling/flashback meant there was little jeopardy.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

This looks like a B++ movie to me 🤓

Thanks for the nice post!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

You're welcome :)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I thought I recognized this. MST3k did an episode on this one.

https://youtu.be/Bhg2ofmCSaY

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I have the Tubi link for that MST3K ep after the screenshots, not sure how many people that works for.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Oh. Yup. I didn't see that. Idk how good Tubi is with ad blocking, but I can tell you that it works with YouTube.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I watched it on Tubi (without an account), with Zen Browser (mod of Firefox) and uBlock Origin. I haven't seen any ads on Tubi so far, although a few times there was a pause of about a second before resuming, presumably when they were going to show ads but which were blocked.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Good to know. Maybe I'll give Tubi a shot then.

this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2025
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