(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>    <p>After the death of his sister, Dr. Munson (George Mitchell) was tricked out of his company by his now widowed brother-in-law Dr. Redding (Ramón Gay), but Redding's plans have gone slightly awry, and now Munson is more than happy to relate the the whole story to a newspaper editor (Bruno VeSota), as told to him by Redding's stepson Timmy:<p>Redding has had major successes in the field of hypnotic regression, and one of his subjects, Ann Taylor (Rosita Arenas) has proven especially promising, having memories of her time, many generations past, as  a Mayan princess. Redding and his cronies are quick to figure as a Mayan princess she'll be able to find Mayan gold inside a Mayan pyramid, so they mount an expedition to your friendly neighbourhood pyramid - where they awaken a mummy which quickly kills Redding. The rest of the expedition returns to civilisation of course, but the mummy has followed them as it takes Ann Taylor for its lover, and eventually takes off with her - but is run over by one of Redding's assistants in the finale.<p>A fantastic story for sure, but the editor decides not to print it as Munson only tells him from hearsay, while all those who have actually seen the mummy prowling around have turned up dead ...<p> <p>Basically, this is a typical cut-and-paste job by director/producer Jerry Warren, where he took a Mexican genre movie - in this case 1957's <b><a href="momiaazteca(1957).shtml">La Momia Azteca</a></b>/<b><a href="momiaazteca(1957).shtml">Attack of the Aztec Mummy</a></b>, which he later also used in <b><a href="faceofthescreamingwerewolf(1964).shtml">Face of the Screaming Werewolf</a></b> - and shot some scenes around it with characters narrating what happens on screen, in lieu of dubbing the actual dialogue into English. The result's so-so at best: It's probably one of Warren's better cut-and-paste jobs as it's not quite as confusing as some of his other films and the main actors of the newly shot scenes are actually pretty decent, but the source material, <b><a href="momiaazteca(1957).shtml">Attack of the Aztec Mummy</a></b>, is just not a very good film, and not made better by chopping it up. That said, if you're into trashy oddities, this is also amusing and thus entertaining - if for mostly the wrong reasons ... <p>  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2020"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>