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  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★

  A deranged technocrat, a Mesoamerican revenant and a clockwork homunculus collide in a cinematic catastrophe. Your precious hour, irrevocably squandered.

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  Review by {Todd} ★

  "Don't do it" - the woman character,

  Hooptober 5.0 (Film 14 of 33): boxd.it/23f1e

  I watched the Mystery Science 3000 version of this and that is a definite recommend (5/5) but the movie itself...NO. In The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy a crazy, weirdo scientist creates a robot to grave rob in the Aztecs. This is apparently part 3 of a serialized story. Some of the special effects are charming but otherwise this is BAAAAAAAD. Not a recommend.

  P.S. In the MST3000 edition they make fun of serialized sci-fi being a commercially effective idea, which is just funny to me given that the MCU is going to happen 15 years later.

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  Review by threepenny ★★ 9

  The goatee-stroking evil mastermind THE BAT has been thwarted twice now in his plans for world domination via regression hypno-therapy, by an Aztec Mummy and an itinerant luchador, in the two previous films in the series. Didn't see them? NOT TO WORRY. We've got flashbacks so large they make the Gamera movies sit up and take notice, the entire first 30 minutes of this hour long spectacle is a highlight reel as told through flashback. But the Bat isn't down yet. Once again putting the extremely suggestible Rosita Arenas under hypnosis, he finds the Aztec Mummy again, but this time he's ready, as the Bat has constructed his very own Robot, with hands that shoot Radium or something, to fight…

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  Review by pd187 ★★★½

  cinco de mayo watch! like everybody else sez, not enough the robot or aztec mummy but cant complain when the real villain is a fat, sarcastic, mexican moreau. the kinda movie theyd cut into 90s pop tart ads - not as weird as other k gordon murray rmxs ive seen but the addition of past-life hypnotic regression & tenochtitlan blood sacrifice kept me in the psychotronozone

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  Review by Ben Hibburd ★½

  I love schlocky, goofy films especially from the 50's but this film fell into the "it's so bad, it's bad" category!

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  Review by bozodeathgod ★½

  MST3K version 3 Stars (This whole movie is a Sleeper Hold)

  For the love of god, if you must watch this make it MST3K. This is paint drying at the event horizon of a black hole. A seedy adventurers league chats up some scientists and recounts events from previous movies in the Aztec Mummy Saga. This builds up to a "final confrontation" with the antagonist, Dr. Krupp (a sort of demented Burl Ives with hypnotic powers and scientific expertise). You see, Krupp is wacky for Aztec treasure. He builds a human-headed robot to go jack up the mummy. Too bad the mummy's Straight out of Compton and the crypt be blowin' soon the bodies bein' hauled off like it's snowin' and Dr. Krupp gets effed up terminal, and what the eff do I rhyme with terminal?

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  Review by TheGiantClaw ½

  ***OctHorror Fest 2014*** Day 24

  First off, let me just clarify that I did not know that this is the third in a series of schlock flicks, and that I am horrified to know this information.
  But the knowledge does clear up a big question I had while watching this, and that's why most of the movie is told in flashbacks. This is because the film makers were too cheap and lazy to make a film, so they reused footage from what I'm assuming are the other two Aztec Mummy movies.

  The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy, or The Aztec Mummy vs the Humanoid Robot, or whatever you want to call it, should be called Walking: The Movie. This movie…

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  Review by mrbalihai ★★½ 2

  How far can the human mind penetrate the mysteries of the Great Beyond? Who knows? This picture is based upon an extraordinary experiment carried out by doctors Hughes and Toomey of the University of Los Angeles. There is no doubt as to its authenticity. Testimony of people participating in the experiment, sworn to by a notary public, preclude any possibility of fraud!

  And with that distinctly Amazing Criswell-ish bit of opening narration, begins a Mexican horror cult-classic which I watched many times as a tweener during the wee hours of a Saturday night. Imported in a dubbed English version by kiddie-film impresario, K. Gordon Murray, and released under the auspices of a questionable outfit called the Young America Horror Club,…

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  Review by Liz ★★★½

  Sure, this isn't much more than a couple of serials cut together with a new ending, but how can something like that be a bad thing?? This is like the fever dream that some pulp-obsessed kid had the night after seeing The Aztec Mummy -- Mexican Orson Welles' latest attempt at revenge made even more outlandish and our hero and his Buddy Holly-looking buddy's sleuthing work somehow even dumber. The weird mix of accents provided by K. Gordon Murray's Coral Gables players only intensify the off-kilter feeling that pervades the whole enterprise.

  My last experience with this was the MST3k episode years ago, so it was a total joy to get to revisit it in a proper context -- no mocking, and on a surprisingly clean 16mm TV print from the Something Weird archive. Too much fun!

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  Review by Dennis Vehlen ★★½

  "I tortured many animals - with pleasure!"

  The 'Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2' of the 'Aztec Mummy' series.
  It's a little hard to rate a movie that consists of at least 50% stock footage from the two previous movies but it's also hard to be mad at it. It does have it's charmes and when the (human) robot finally appears in the final 10 minutes and actually fights the Aztec Mummy in the last 2 minutes, I felt pretty satisfied with this.

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  Review by louferrigno ★½ 2

  In the varied list of great filmmakers from Mexico when the local film industry reached high levels of production value and generated economic success from quality films, Rafael Portillo is not one of them. Portillo was a filmmaker that mostly stuck to low budgets and sloppy quality for the sake of getting at least one film a year out the door, and his biggest brushes of genuine skill was through his sidejob as an editor, a line of work that got him in good graces with the best, including being able to edit to the whimsy of Luis Buñuel's Mexican Bus Ride (I mean, granted, that's nobody's favorite Buñuel, but it's something). His biggest claim to fame was the three-film…

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  Review by 8BeanSoup ★★

  The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy made my head hurt. The movie is much more complicated than need be.

  It features a guy named Dr. Eduardo Almada. He's telling a room full of smart guys about his encounters with an Aztec mummy and his wife's past lives. There's an evil scientist named "The Bat." He wants to take the golden breastplate worn by the Aztec mummy. The only problem? Every time he takes it the mummy wakes up and goes kill crazy! So The Bat realizes he needs to create a robot, but not just any robot, an atomic robot! Ha-ha-ha! Ba-ha-ha!

  Doyle Greene says, "Because non-American horror films, specifically mexploitation, subscribe to their own formal codes and structures and…