(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>To test his theory of hypnotic regression on a human being, Dr Almada (Ramón Gay) puts his girlfriend Flor (Rosita Arenas) - also the daughter of his mentor Dr Sepulveda (Jorge Mondragón) - under deep hypnosis, and she remembers one of her past lives as an Aztec virgin to be sacrificed to one of their deities ... and when she's killed in her memory, she almost dies from shock. So now Dr Almada has proof that satisfies himself that his method works, but to convince the scientific world, he and his associates have to go to the pyramid Flor's past incarnation is buried in and retrieve her breast plate. Thing is, by doing so, Almada and friends revive a mummy, there to guard the body of the sacrificed virgin. Almada and company manage to escape in one piece though, and with the breastplate. But the mummy's coming after them to get back the breastplate ... as is masked super criminal the Bat (Jesús Murcielago Velázquez), whose men are first chased away by the mummy, later they quite simply run into the police, and the Bat is revealed to be Dr Krupp (Luis Aceves Castaneda), the chief doubter of Almada's theories. Back to the mummy though, it manages to break into Almada's home and get its hands on the breastplate, but then he recognizes his former lover in Flor and decides to abduct her. Almada and company follow the mummy to its pyramid, somehow manage to tear Flor from the mummy, and then Dr Sepulveda blows up the creature, giving his own life in the process ...<p> <p><b>La Momia Azteca</b> sure is some fun to be had, seen as an old fashioned, cheap and a bit creaky horror flick that's at least from today's perspective more laugh-inducing than horrifying. That said, the movie doesn't have anything new to add to the genre and instead is reminiscent of a few too many B-movies of old, plus the thing's rather horribly structured, with the mummy being introduced into the story only very late, and the whole subplot about the Bat is introduced into the film rather clumsily and without doing anything to further the main narrative, plus its resolve is rather anti-climactic. So yeah, this might be fun for all the wrong reasons ... but fun still. <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 = "2016"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>