OOOH! OOOH!

there was a disclaimer at the end of the movie about the work at the pyramids.

i have the feeling they got money from the Mexican government to film educational movies about Nahuatl myths —hence the really high quality of the historical 'footage'. the clothing, jewelry, makeup are really close to what i have seen in actual 15th century Nahuatl codices.

so they probably shot those, completed the assignment, and with whatever was left they made this movie.

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NOW I HAVE TO WATCH THE WHOLE TRILOGY!

the Aztec Mummy returns to fight a Robot and a Vampire. then later on there's a kinda new Aztec mummy with El Santo. and El Santo fights the mummy, Frankenstein, Dracula, wolfwomen and vampire women.

and i now want to watch The Mummy because sweartagawd that second part of this movie is the whole premise of The Mummy but with the story of Xochtl and that's kinda bad ass.

well done #Monsterdon

today was awesome

With the conclusion of tonight's #monsterdon, I apologize for having voted for the Wrestling Women vs Mummy thing and vow to do better next time.

no me jodas.

se me congeló la computadora.

soy víctima de la maldición de la momia azteca

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about those Nahuatl codices:

DIGITAL FLORENTINE CODEX
https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/

…gives access to a singular manuscript created by Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a group of Nahua elders, authors, and artists. Written in parallel columns of Nahuatl and Spanish texts and hand painted with nearly 2,500 images, the encyclopedic codex is widely regarded as the most reliable source of information about Mexica culture, the Aztec Empire, and the conquest of Mexico.

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It's basically Waiting For Godot but with an Aztec vampire/mummy

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Sign reads in Aztec

"THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOUR"

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Well, that was indeed an hour and a half of film used up...

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#monsterdon this movie is a masterpiece

Ugh - cliché – If I had a nickel for every time I've seen a professor of archeology approach a group of professional wrestling women to guard an ancient Aztec archeological site. C'mon.

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@Lazarou Yeah, nothing really compares. It wins the gold, silver and bronze. But, everyone else can compete for honorable mention.

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@apLundell Lets turn Monsterdon into a weekly drinking game where everyone has to drink when someone screenshots a great hat.

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@apLundell The statue in the background is giving his hat two thumbs up! Serious we NEED a Hats of Monsterdon gallery!

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@Infoseepage Shelley Winters still wins it
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@brooke It's kind of a major flaw given, you know, the title and all.

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"Look Loretta, he's a vampire now!"

"He's a Mummy again!"

"Look, he disappeared!"

"Look, a spider!"

Like, decide already. WTF are you, Aztec Mummy? Can't you just be happy and be an Aztec Mummy like your brother? You're 500 years old. Grow up!

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estamos en el minuto 50 y no hay momia que valga, LMAO

sólo tetas en poliester

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@jonny I just know there is no mummy
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Spot the secret entrance.

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Did every middle class man in the 60s wear a suit? Lot's of suit wearing and cigarette smoking...

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*música ominosa*

LAS LUCHADORAS
CONTRA
LA MOMIA

chan🎶 chan🎶 chan🎶

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It's #monsterdon in vivid black and white, with drippy font action.

Also, I think it wouldn't hurt to make the characters more distinct... the two Wrestling Women should have been more distinguishable... I think I'd give them some kind of transformation sequence where they go from normal guises to suddenly being flashy luchadoras in color-coded masks!

The goons could also be more like goofy 1990s action movie goons instead of just generic guys; the evil judo ladies can be kept as distinctive mid-boss type characters.

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for reals, esta segunda parte es como en la The Mummy. así que Armando termina siendo el Brendan Frasier.

ahora quiero ver The Mummy.

y como dicen en Monsterdon, la momia se fue al carajo bajo un mar de arena y bloques piramidales.

y san se acabó.

gracias @Taweret@octodon.social y a toda la ganga por escoger esta peli.

¡ES UNA TRILOGÍA! ahora quiero verlas todas y las de El Santo también, porque soy #TeamMomia LMAO

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Having escaped, the movie ends, and we thank the Mexican museum for helping us make the movie, which was nice of them to do.

We kind of dropped the whole plot with the Black Dragon also trying to get the breastplate, which is odd... since that was like 2/3rds of the movie. I'll assume that was a plot thread that will be followed up later.

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"Who knows how many more centuries the Aztec treasure will lie hidden?"

Exactly 0 centuries, there's gold down there!

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Yay - it's the abrupt end we've all been waiting for for the last 30minutes

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#monsterdon We're almost 70 minutes into this movie and we have still seen neither hide nor hair of the titular antagonist, right? I didn't miss seeing the introduction of the Aztec mummy at some point prior to this tomb exploration scene? (Yes, yes, I know, it's Tezomoc, but he was not mummified when we saw him in that flashback.) This is more like "Wrestling Women vs. The Black Dragon Gang and also The Inexorable Passage of Time" so far

This guys in suits on an Aztec Pyramid looks like an 80s music video.

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#monsterdon "They were bound and returned to the temple, where they would be punished for breaking our sacred laws."

they're going to make Tezomoc wrestle someone aren't they

Where the hell is the Aztec mummy and why are they keeping it from us?

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I would also like to discuss the Black Dragon's podcasting setup. He has the TV that he uses to spy on people, and also an old-timey microphone that I think is there so he can give his evil instructions to the lady he brainwashed. He also has an old time radio I guess to listen to in between giving evil instructions and I think a big clock on top of his spy TV.

I give this setup a 6/10.

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#monsterdon "Now, I want you to act quite normally, so that no one will suspect you."

(Me, to my brain, just about every morning)

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I legit kind of want to see a remake of this film. It seemed like if it tied the elements together better and added Just the Right Amount of camp, it could be a lot better, like the 90s Mummy movie, but in Mexico.

They could have at least had the titular wrestling women wrestle the actual mummy and have the OG villain show up at the very end and use some ancient sorcery to counter their martial arts.

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@diazona @ottaross the real Monsterdon is the snark we share along the way

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Also i want to say look how incredible @peertube is: we had i think max 8 peers on here at once, my server had to serve me exactly 1MB of 1GB, the rest i got from p2p. #p2p is so ridiculously overpowered it's broken sometimes. #monsterdon

Well, thanks everyone for my first #Monsterdon experience, that was absolutely terrible and I had a lot of fun

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#monsterdon still better than the Godmonster of Indian Flats…

That was a grand time, thank you @Taweret@octodon.social !!! Also I really got a lot more of #monsterdon here so I'll keep posting from this account for live event stuff, see you next week!!

I think the portrayal of the pyramid in this movie is very Egyptian inspired, with the maze of tunnels and the secret burial chamber harboring a mummy.

To my limited knowledge, Mesoamerican temples were usually platforms for temples (often built up successively over many generations), but at least some of them did have burial chambers for prominent people in them... it just wasn't the normal thing I don't think.

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This movie has the most obvious secret entrances ever.

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While we are busy grave robbing, we finally get a goddamn mummy, when Tezozomoc emerges from his lid and starts shambling around. After observing his dead girlfriend, he waves his hands and makes a mournful noise.

Because Team Good is also kind of jerks in this movie, they pull out a gun and shoot him, which doesn't work, because mummies are bullet proof.

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thank you, timeline

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BTW este relato de Xotchil es el mismo de la egipcia y su enamorado de la película The Mummy con Brendan Frasier

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okay nice shot with the guys on the pyramid

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"Well Uncle, Curses aren't real and we're White Guys so we're after the treasure."

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Okay, so after a wrestling scene that was insufficiently campy, the Black Dragon guy decides to be cool and hand them the codex. The lead cop betrays him and pulls a gun on him to try to arrest him, proving that you should never talk to cops without a lawyer present.

But then his Judo ladies beat up the cops and he escapes. Being chill, he declines to steal the codex back for them, letting Team Good figure out the codex for him.

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@apLundell@octodon.social I mean looking at it is hard to believe they didn't have this footage and just built the movie around it
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@strangefour She ain't wearing that low-neck strappy dress for nothin'.

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Those men thorough enjoyed getting beaten up by women and are now trying to suppress their arousal in front of their girlfriends

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Seeing how many wrestling fights the Wrestling Women have lost in this movie so far, I think setting up a wrestling match to see who gets the codex is a good move by the Black Dragon. I mean, even if the Wrestling Women beat his Judo goons, from the evidence we've seen so far this seems like he's making the right decision.

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"Honey, I'm wearing my best suit to the Lady Wrestling Match, don't wait up!"

The 60s

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"Well, it sounds like a pretty standard peer-reviewed wrestling match as is standard to resolve differences in academia. We agree."

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Chucho es tan estúpido que la droga del mamón orientalista no le hizo ningún efecto, LOL

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siempre le toca a la mexicana a hacer todo el trabajo.

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SYRINGES DO NOT WORK LIKE THAT

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The plot thickens as the Good Apartment gets a surprise delivery of a Giant Hat. This is Mexico, so of course the hat is a gigantic sombrero.

We decide the hat is a secret message, or possibly a bomb, so we test this out by putting it on and screaming "yeehaa!" then we pass our search check and find a secret note hidden in the hat.

But unbeknownst to our heroes, the sinister black dragon is spying on them with his Magic TV of Voyeurism.

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LMAo no sé si son flores o arañas en el sueter de Chela. tiene una vibra bien Hairspray de John Waters

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Hats of unusual size is a running theme with monsterdon. Remember tentacles?

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I just love these lady wrestler's style and if there isn't a lesbian bar somewhere who uses this film for a theme night then what the hell is the World doing?

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Alright, so this movie starts with a credit sequence showing some Mesoamerican ruins that I can't identify but probably aren't technically Aztec. That I'm not sure what ruins they are exactly suggests that I need to level up on my Mesoamerican archaeological pedantry skill.

Anyway, then some cars drive around, and a Juggalo dies screaming. I think we are told that the Juggalo was an archaeologist and he was killed by a Fu Manchu lookalike.

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El Dragón Negro va a ser el nuevo nombre de mi banda de rock chilanguero anti-colonialista

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ese beehive de la überchola me da vibras bien María la del Barrio

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I'm expecting a throwing knife very shortly here… 

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Better yet... maybe the treasure is a whole library of unburnt codices... a whole bunch of historical and literary treatises. Maybe the mummy is there as more of a treasure guardian, and he assumes that the Spanish speaking explorers and goons are just agents of the Inquisition sent to burn the secret library he was assigned to guard.

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se convirtió en tarántula porque el viejo momia ese le gusta toquetear a quien no ha consentido. viejo verde.

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la momia hace ese ruido porque el pobrecito necesita un dentista. mírale lo feo que tiene los dientes. y esas encías están que espantan.

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Does anyone think the three prior Aztec Mummy films were actually good and somehow this was the bad one that ended the otherwise successful run? Not sure I care to find out.

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Okay, so the mummy is scared of fire, which makes sense, so he turns into a bat, confusing me, because I thought that the the mummy and the bat were separate characters, but no, They were the Same Guy All the Time, which sure fooled me. Also he turns into a tiny spider for no reason and Team Good escapes, leaving the breastplate necklace thing because it belongs the mummy's dead girlfriend.

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I'm less than clear why the brainwashed girl can't just get out of this pyramid on her own, but maybe a door shut behind her that I didn't notice. Anyway, the mummy wakes up and is shambling toward her and This Is Very Scary so she screams and faints.

When she wakes up, she is tied to the sacrificial altar (but still alive) because fuck if I know. I guess the mummy wants to kill her with a giant bowl of steaming soup?

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estúpido colonialista de mierda y sus pistolas.

#TeamMomia

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I don't feel like the Wrestling Women ever really got a chance to go toe-to-toe with the Aztec Mummy, and thus the movie's title was a bit deceptive.

I'm going to be very cautious about watching the next six sequels.

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¡AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKK!

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ahora quiero comparar la peli de Brendan Frasier con esta segunda parte porque como se me parece.

aún así… AJEM…

🗣️ ¿DÓNDE CARAJO ESTÁ LA MOMIA!

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lol, classic abrupt ending with many open threads...

No sea though

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There are 6 minutes left, will we finally get the wrestling women to actually do something about this mummy? They just don't seem to be that effectual. I was expecting the wrestling women to be a little more badass, you know?

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oquei, estoy en otra 'putadora. vamos a ver como termina esto. hay demasiado caminando por las pirámides.

ay carajete

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I. want. to. see. someone. wrestle. a mummy.

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wow, did he just ditch Charlotte in the pyramid like a coward?

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Oh wow, on top of the spooky skeleton we find some cute rats. Yay rats!

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"Use the silencers so as not to wake the neighbours"

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I have to say - when the world is coming to an end through atomic warfare, these are the people you want in charge.

Completely non-chalant and not at all freaked out by anything.

Just going ahead with the mission as planned.

Chill.

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@APBBlue I know this crowd #monsterdon

WE'VE GOT MUMMY SIGN! WAOOOOOO!!
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no puedo creer que básicamente, The Mummy es basada en la secunda parte de esa película

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esta parte se siente como si fuera una película completamente diferente.

por cierto, hace un tiempito estab chequeando unos códices nathual que están ahora en línea y la ropa y los adornos se parecen mucho a los de los códices.

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Team Good convinces the top science guy to decipher the Aztec codex so we can find the secret treasure and use it for public works.

We don't know what the codex is, so I'm gonna assume that the treasure is just a big pile of cocoa beans that the Mexica were using as a currency reserve.

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At this point, the movie decides to show us wrestling scenes for about 52 years.

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ahora sí quisiera una Corona bien fría.

ño.

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I mean, this is a *wrestling film* with a monster probably thrown in at the end somewhere probably

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Okay, so Team Good loses the fight because they are not as good at wrestling as the title would imply. Then the cop guy threatens to burn the codex, partly so the Black Dragon can't get it, but also because he does not care about Mexico's Indigenous Cultural History.

Because the Black Dragon does care about the literary achievements of past societies, making him the good guy, at least in this scene, he offers to resolve this with a wrestling match.

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Where are the blow-gun darts when you really want them?

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LMAO la gringa tiene un tipo como su doble en las peleas

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#Monsterdon I wish the foley folks had the same kind of punch sound that you can see in Indiana Jones movies.

"NOT THE HAIR, NOT THE HAIR!"

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#monsterdon This is the thinnest possible excuse to justify the narrative of another wrestling match in this movie.

I don't know, y'all, I'm starting to think this movie might lack a bit of quality in the plot department

On further analysis, I think the Black Dragon's TV clock might actually be a sprinkler shower head that someone turned sideways.

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The Black Dragon's offensive Yellowface reminds me of Peter Ustinov's offensive Yellowface.

At least it's not as eye bleachingly bad as Mickey Rooney's offensive Yellowface

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Wait, the black dragon has a Japanese name? hrm...

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