A vampire (Dracula?) comes to see a professor. They go to a cemetery with their midget minions and read some incantations that bring an army of genuinely creepy-looking mummies to life. Back in the lab, the professor sticks an electronic device in the mummies' brains to make them into zombie slaves. I'm not really sure what the bad guys' objective is. First the mummies kidnap girls, but this plot point is quickly swept under the rug. Next the mummies are digging in a cave. I'm guessing they're looking for uranium for some device for the professor and Dracula to take over the world with. In other words, the plot is a bit convoluted. After a bit, masked wrestlers are fighting mummies and midgets. There are a couple of amusing scenes, and the campy skull-flashing scene segues are nifty, but for the most part this movie drags. Worth a look if you come across it, but not worth pulling your hair out to find.
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buy the poster instead
christopher-underwood30 March 2014
What a load of hokum. Not surprising, of course, Mexico 1972 with masked wrestlers the heroes. Just a glance at the wonderful lobby cards and poster, heavily featuring the muscle boys, including 'Blue Angel' and 'Thousand Masks' known affectionally in the film as 'Blue' and 'Thousand' respectively, is enough to assure this is not going to be an intellectual feast. Trouble is that colourful though this is and mildly amusing may it be to have a bunch of caped and masked wrestlers mixing it with mini skirted girls and a bunch or dwarfs, not to mention the mad scientist and Satan himself, all this does not a story make. Just realised I haven't even mentioned the titular 'mummies' but then it is easy to forget them. great first appearance in the catacombs but all down hill thereafter what with all their slow movement and zombie like automaton action. Hope I haven't put anyone off this! Seriously my best advise is consider watching and then buy the poster instead.
Near magical
BandSAboutMovies26 July 2021
Warning: Spoilers
You know, I can't get enough of luchadors fighting mummies. I really can't. They could have made hundreds of these movies and I'd watch every single one.
This time around, the evil Count Cagliostro (Tito Novaro, who also directed this movie) and a scientist have succeeded in bringing the mummies of Guanajuato - yes, the same ones from Las Momias de Guanajuato - back to life. Beyond wiring the undead with electronics that allow them to be controlled, they also have an army of karate-chopping little people.
Luckily, humanity has El Rayo de Jalisco (who didn't appear all that often in movies), Mil Máscaras and Blue Angel* (who would team with Superzan and Tieneblas to fight a very similar set of bad guys in the following year's El Castillo de las Momias de Guanajuato) are on our side.
Not only does Mil have a convertible, fight mummies in a cape and know tons of attractive women, he lives in the kind of space age seventies apartment that would not be out of place in a giallo. Well done, man of a thousand masks!
*According to Cool Ass Cinema, Blue Angel was bodybuilder Orlando Hernandez. The character was created by producer Rogelio Agrasánchez Sr. As a replacement for Blue Demon.
This time around, the evil Count Cagliostro (Tito Novaro, who also directed this movie) and a scientist have succeeded in bringing the mummies of Guanajuato - yes, the same ones from Las Momias de Guanajuato - back to life. Beyond wiring the undead with electronics that allow them to be controlled, they also have an army of karate-chopping little people.
Luckily, humanity has El Rayo de Jalisco (who didn't appear all that often in movies), Mil Máscaras and Blue Angel* (who would team with Superzan and Tieneblas to fight a very similar set of bad guys in the following year's El Castillo de las Momias de Guanajuato) are on our side.
Not only does Mil have a convertible, fight mummies in a cape and know tons of attractive women, he lives in the kind of space age seventies apartment that would not be out of place in a giallo. Well done, man of a thousand masks!
*According to Cool Ass Cinema, Blue Angel was bodybuilder Orlando Hernandez. The character was created by producer Rogelio Agrasánchez Sr. As a replacement for Blue Demon.
Not one...not two...not even three...but FOUR luchadores!!
planktonrules8 January 2021
One of the strangest genres of films I have ever seen (and I've seen a lot of weird stuff) are the Mexican luchador movies. I'm not surprised that they made them, as wrestling has been hugely popular in Mexico for many decades. But what makes them so odd is that they are NOT all about wrestling but are more like superhero films where the guys just happen to be masked wrestlers. Even odder yet is that while the films usually show a bit of a match or two, most of the films are supposedly about the wrestlers' real life adventures battling aliens, Atlantians or even monsters! Yes....masked wrestlers take on the likes of Dracula and Frankenstein in many of the flms!
In "El Robo de las Momias de Guanajuato" ("Robbery of the Mummies of Guanajuato"), the evil Count Cagliastro has managed to revive a group of Mexican mummies by using a spell which invokes the Egyptian gods! To stop him in his infamy, Mil Máscaras (Thousand Masks), Blue Demon, Blue Angel and El Rayo de Jalisco (The Lightning Bolt of Jalisco) take on the mummies and their master. Of course, this involves lots of wrestling and fighting...all during which the quartet keep their masks on at all times. In fact, in some of these hundred or more wrestling films, you see the luchadores showering, sleeping and even going out on hot dates while wearing these masks! It's something Mexicans just loved and took for granted back during the classic period of wrestling in the 1960s and 70s.
So is this any good? No....it's terrible. But also, it's terribly entertaining despite everything. The production values aren't especially high and the mummies look as if the make-up and rubber masks cost the production company about $30 (and this is probably being generous). Despite all this, however, the films are fun...and this mummy film never bores!
By the way, I looked it up and Guanajuato is a state north/northwest of Mexico City and it IS known for its mummies. In fact, they even have a mummy museum! It sure sounds like an interesting place to visit. I read about the place and, surprisingly, these mummies are NOT ancient but are from a cholera outbreak in 1833! The museum was opened just a few years before this film was made and it reportedly houses over a hundred of these mummified bodies.
In "El Robo de las Momias de Guanajuato" ("Robbery of the Mummies of Guanajuato"), the evil Count Cagliastro has managed to revive a group of Mexican mummies by using a spell which invokes the Egyptian gods! To stop him in his infamy, Mil Máscaras (Thousand Masks), Blue Demon, Blue Angel and El Rayo de Jalisco (The Lightning Bolt of Jalisco) take on the mummies and their master. Of course, this involves lots of wrestling and fighting...all during which the quartet keep their masks on at all times. In fact, in some of these hundred or more wrestling films, you see the luchadores showering, sleeping and even going out on hot dates while wearing these masks! It's something Mexicans just loved and took for granted back during the classic period of wrestling in the 1960s and 70s.
So is this any good? No....it's terrible. But also, it's terribly entertaining despite everything. The production values aren't especially high and the mummies look as if the make-up and rubber masks cost the production company about $30 (and this is probably being generous). Despite all this, however, the films are fun...and this mummy film never bores!
By the way, I looked it up and Guanajuato is a state north/northwest of Mexico City and it IS known for its mummies. In fact, they even have a mummy museum! It sure sounds like an interesting place to visit. I read about the place and, surprisingly, these mummies are NOT ancient but are from a cholera outbreak in 1833! The museum was opened just a few years before this film was made and it reportedly houses over a hundred of these mummified bodies.
A divinely ludicrous Luche Libre romp!
Weirdling_Wolf3 August 2023
The evil Count Cagliostro (Tito Novaro), a 500 yr. Old Warlock, and monomaniacal professor Raymond conspire to resurrect the famous mummies of Guanajuato in order to extract Hernium, a preternatural, highly volatile element! Working from their secret, heavily guarded subterranean base they begin their sinister subterfuge, threatening the total destruction of the world if their despotic demands aren't met in full! With the entire civilisation held precariously in the balance, mankind's only hope of salvation is in the heroic triumvirate of muscular masked mancake, Mil máscaras, the no less hypertrophic, Blue Angel and sparky comrade, El Rayo de Jalisco! El Robo de las Momias de Guanajuato (1972) is an action-packed, wonderfully entertaining, divinely ludicrous Luche Libre romp that provides B-Movie fans with a garish generosity of crusty zombie mayhem! Headier highlights include the macabre-looking Mummies grisly make-up, Cagliostro's zesty Kung Fu Dwarves, Rafael Carrion's groovy score, the striking Guatemalan locations, and, of course, the lusty Luchador's triumphant battle over the eerie electro-brained zombies!
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