The music is canned stuff that fails to provide any lift or emotion to the scenes. The rest of the cast varies from adequate to mediocre.
Both Eisley and Carradine are solid professional who provide good acting performances. He shares a couple of scenes as a mentor to Eisley's scientist. John Carradine is the "name" attached to the project. They monsters eventually traipse through parts of Las Vegas where the most fun is watching passers-by try hard, and often unsuccessfully, not to giggle.
Also, Ankara's revival prompts the revival of the mummy of one of her past admirers. The first is that Eisley - in scenes so badly produced that they defy description - turns into a jackal/werewolf and kills a few unluckies. He believes he can bring her back to life and does, but it comes with a couple of twists. The film stars Anthony Eisley as a scientist, David Barrie, obsessed with a the perfectly preserved mummified corpse of the Princess Akana (Marliza Pons). Never released to theaters, it was eventually grabbed for video by Academy Home Entertainment in 1986 - the peak of the video era when fly-by-night video firms were grabbing cheapo 60s and 70s thrillers and packaging them as if they were more modern horros. ISBN 0-87951-624-0.Sinister Cinema has released "The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals," a truly terrible film that was almost completed in 1969 by the Vega International, a Las Vegas-based film company.
Horror on their review for the complete series gave the film a negative review calling it "the least satisfying entry in the series".
TV Guide awarded the film three out of four stars, calling it "wholly enjoyable". Sindelar's only criticism was slow pacing during the last half of the film. On his website Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings, Dave Sindelar noted that the film was slightly better than its sequel, having more plot than the other films in the series. Reception Īuthor and film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film one and a half out of four stars, calling it "Cheap" and "droning". It was later dubbed in English and released in the U.S. The Curse of the Aztec Mummy was released theatrically in 1957. Alberto Yáñez as Esbirro del Murciélago.Guillermo Hernández as Esbirro del Murciélago.Enrique Yáñez as Esbirro del Murciélago.Jesús Murcielago Velázquez as El Murciélago (the Bat).Ángel di Stefani as Popoca the Aztec Mummy.Julián de Meriche as the Commandante de Policía.Rosa Arenas as Flor Sepulveda / Xochitl.This film's plot leads into the third film in the trilogy, The Robot vs.
Popoca takes his stolen artifacts and stumbles off back to his tomb. Krupp into a pit filled with live snakes. He finally meets his match, however, when Popoca, the warrior mummy who guards Xochitl's tomb, bursts into the mad doctor's lab, kills his thugs and throws the screaming Dr. Almada and the Angel, and tries to force Almada to translate the hieroglyphics on the breastplate which will reveal the secret location of the Aztec treasure. It turns out their bookish friend Pinacate has been the man behind the Angel's mask. Almada, his mild-mannered assistant Pinacate, and a mysterious masked superhero called the Angel. Krupp (Luis Aceves Castañeda) escapes from the police with the aid of his gang, and once again tries to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's gold breastplate and bracelet by hypnotizing her current reincarnation, Flor Sepulveda, to get her to reveal the location of Xochitl's tomb.Ĭonfusion reigns as Krupp and his thugs are opposed by Flor's fiancé Dr. The plot is continued from the first film in the series, The Aztec Mummy.