Itβs a good thing this is clearly the end of the series and they didnβt make any more Aztec Mummy movies after this one #Monsterdon
wait what about the Catholic polka? What'd I miss?
OH! so all of this was because gringo mad scientist didn't have Google Translate?
@hollie I believe it lol
#monsterdon You know what to do now Lilac? Yeah boss! Smell pretty!
Acid again?!?! #thecurseoftheaztecmummy #monsterdon
Chair-based carnage #Monsterdon
@ramsey
Some of us did. We have a problem.
#Monsterdon Double Feature of Pain
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The Angel The Breastplate and the dirty slippers
#monsterdon
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@moira @paco Doh! How did I miss that? #Monsterdon
@Violinknitter Heeeyyy that's not nice
Why did he not just shoot the Angel dude right there. And why did the Angel just stand around waiting to get captured for the next scene. #monsterdon
@whknott i think it was also deliberate that he couldn't be too buff, so that his fans could identify with a tough dude with a little bit of a beer paunch
@Bluedepth Why did ancient cultures never think to bury their mummies with some soap
or perfume
maybe build a shower into the tomb?
It definitely takes just like three guys to move a giant rock that weighs like a ton
NEGL it's the first time i see El Santo use a gun. maybe because they shot the scene for a gringo audience?
in Latinoamerica, if movies were going to be shown to a USA audience, they would change scenes or add them. in many of our countries owning guns was illegal, so i doubt El Santo holding a gun was a thing for the Mexican market, but now i want to research this. i love all this pop-cult lore.
Rock-searching montage?
this has some surprisingly strong "return to the poseidon adventure" vibes
Doing a wrapup post while still catching up on the other comments- a #monsterdon tradition! Thanks @Taweret as always for hosting, @JoeWynne for an _excellent_ cocktail reccomendation (highly recommended), @cheribaker for the bingo card and everyone else for making this one somewhat bearable. We saw:
- A gigantic metal ass. Robot sold separately
- Seriously, imagine being film's first "robocop" cyborg, and you find out that not only are you not scary, because you look like a small child's toy you're that twee, but you don't even get a butt.
- A film that did not make Collider.com's "10 Movies With the Best Flashbacks, According to Reddit"
- A Caped, masked villain who stole exactly one(1) scene and was never seen again
- An adaptation of an ancient tragic love story comparable to The West Side Story. Wait, no I take that back. We didn't see that.
- Some incredible scenery chewing, headwear, trumpet work, and that cemetery borracho. The mummy was okay too, when he actually did anything.
If only it werenβt for those meddling kids I mean academics and woman who always gets hypnotized #Monsterdon
Heeee wants to swing from the chandelier...the chandelieeeeeer
That was a pretty good tense scene.
Okay, so they're smarter than Skyrim guards. That's something.
i can't believe some of you are watching *another* aztec mummy movie (or maybe the same movie, in a way) #Monsterdon
"Must've been my imagination"
@diazona RIGHT?! π He has nothing to fear, if he falls he has the escape hatch
"HARDER! HARDER!"
It's like we have another movie with a mime in it. #monsterdon #CurseOfTheAztecMummy
@crazypedia@officemarx.party I think I'll do a rewatch on my lunch break tomorrow at https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev/ :blobpopcorn:
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The evil guy seems out of character somehow
@paco I mean I was gonna say....
Yes, doctor, that is precisely why we beat you when you're tied up, because it's easy
the pyramid was a swingers club, wasn't it?
Doctor doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of... wanting to beat you.
@whknott
They didn't have the budget for a mesmerizing device? π
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@moira Maybe Mothra's fairies could get in on that too
The way these Mummy movies occasionally use FrΓ¨re Jacques but in minor! π #Monsterdon
The actors are also being put to sleep by this movie
#Monsterdon Double Feature of Pain
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"Look, pal, I've been in this bed for at least three movies. What's your rush?" -Laura, probably
Well, I'm getting tired of Dr. Krupp
@crazypedia@officemarx.party arrgh! There's a #mst3k version I could have watched , I didn't even realize
#Monsterdon #mysterysciencetheater3000
https://youtu.be/Bhg2ofmCSaY?si=OJUjtYcWlifBiqvi
Small microscope desk with no light. The Bat is on The Budget.
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Guy: Lie down right there
Flora: No
Guy: Do as you're told
Flora: <lays down>
Guy: She has an amazing and rebellious will
Do you forget I know this thing?
No, but you forgot that I knew this other thing.
Right, but YOU forgot that I knew the other other thing.
#monsterdon
@jchaven ahh thanks
@paco It would be a shocking indictment of Kung Fu Saturday if it didn't
"NURSE! NURSE!" - this guy, probably
@Zerofactorial aha, so it's not me that's getting blurry? good, good.
Wait I missed how this guy (The Bat/Krupp) made it out of police custody
My other weekend watch party is Kung Fu Saturday and, well, it wins this week in terms of fight scenes. :) #monsterdon
I don't forget you know either oh wait
that's nice of them to put his glasses on after una paliza
@hollie Again with the Aztec Mummy: Electric Boogaloo #monsterdon
poor jerry lewis, he didn't deserve that
@CactuarJoe @moira As I understand the Aztec Mummy Cinematic Universe:
1. The Aztec Mummy (1957)
2. The Curse of the Aztec Mummy (1957) - with flashbacks to 1. Currently watching.
3. The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy (1957) - with flashbacks to 1. and 2. Watched today.
4. The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy (1964) - Did that one have flashbacks? Watched on Nov 17 on #monsterdon
That means, instead of a proper spider movie we have to watch The Aztec Mummy next week to get the whole story.
they didn't even give them LA accents to these cops. that sucks.
@jsadow @Mikal @lytta I like that, makes it sound like an art film #monsterdon
and for the love of god, keep your vests on. you never know how hard it might hit.
okay we're out of flashbacks for now
stay at your stations everyone, you never know when another wave will hit
@nev i'm just going to watch these poor fools suffer through it while not watching the second movie π
Wait so the god is actually there at their ritual inside the pyramid?
Can we get the god some screen time?
She was a maiden serving the God Stick Hockey Polka. Did I get that right? #monsterdon
oh my god there's ANOTHER #Monsterdon? Nope nope I'm too tired, gonna listen to my "British man having a bad day" horror story and call ita night
I mean, the booze required to make this movie hilarious hasn't worn off yet, so maybe I should watch it. Something tells me I could start now and not miss anything, since I've already seen most of it in flashbacks, apparently.
#monsterdon
@moira Oh, I was thrown off by the lack of Versus. Ah well. #Monsterdon
"I'm twenty years old, and I'm questioning my career choices..."
@paco I'm at 14min into it. #Monsterdon
@diazona Okay I'm following you so maybe I'll catch more...
@paco He's a very well-spoken curse
If Truman Capote had watched this film: "That's not a movie. That's just exposed film."
#monsterdon
Well that was short, bad, and a real delight! Thanks @Taweret and fellow monster movie nerds. #Monsterdon
@hollie About 12 minutes in now - we started at 15 minutes past the hour (well I started a little late)
This one was actually announced slightly in advance of when the first movie started but it was easy to miss. (I tried to boost the announcement as much as possible)
This one has a wrestler at least
I only just got *Curse of the Aztec Mummy* playing. Had problems with plex. I've jumped to about the right time, but there's a dude in his underwear and a cape. Is that the Curse? #monsterdon
oh, nice fake machine acting there, pal
Oh my god is this the mummy from the first movie when he was still alive?
@hollie About 12min into it. #Monsterdon
the classic melodrama music actually works here
and actually improves this movie
@moira the original plot armor
@hollie Yes. Curse of the Aztec Mummy
https://archive.org/details/CurseOfTheAztecMummylaMaldicionDeLaMomiaAzteca1957-English #Monsterdon
@moira It was the only way they could think of to get the word "breast" past the censors?
@diazona truly I didn't realize we DIDN'T know the identity of the bat at any point
Hey, the guy in the suit and hat shooting a gun is the Cemetary keeper from the last movie.
#Monsterdon Double Feature
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Is this film actually The Fugitive? Prisoner escape on a bus?
EL SANTO!!!!!!
Aw yeah! Iβll just shake my Tommy gun and say ratatatatata! #thecurseoftheaztecmummy #monsterdon
@jsadow @Mikal @lytta But the patriarchy stuff and the fake romance did stink up the story, imo. This film just didn't have anything, Flora was trying her best to do something with her part but it just wasn't working #monsterdon
Wait are we on a second movie?
If the footage didn't wind up on the cutting room floor, which it probably did, given the cuts the director left, some pensive thought by the actors just before they were asked to "go on" would have helped sell the story a bit. If this cut into the time budget, they could have deleted a bunch of standing around scenes, and/or walked faster.
Overall, given the era, it was certainly worth the Young America Horror Club seal of approval. I look forward to seeing more of their picks.
my mom's town center was built up around the time this movie was made. it's the second oldest town in Puerto Rico and it's downtown is a mix of 15th C and 1950s building and this movie is making me feel a way.
i miss home.
we do not have aztec mummys though.
it will probably be entertaining to watch the commentary on the optional second mummy movie which i am not myself watching... is this one from earlier in the series? later? weirdly unrelated?
@combatwombat @athena_rising Movie runtime: 63 minutes. Watchable footage: 3 minutes.
Great job, crew. Let's pack this one in. #Monsterdon
@diazona honestly, the robot OR the mummy probably could have made a better Robot vs Mummy movie. #monsterdon
So the running time was 63 minutes, but really this was a thirteen minute long feature #monsterdon
Wait. That young woman is not his daughter but his girlfriend?