Let's be realistic.

Better Late Then Never

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

If you read Rudolph Grey's excellent "nightmare in ecstasy", you will find a passage that refers to Edward D. Wood Jnr. directing Lon Chaney Jr. as a wolfman climbing up the outside of a building for promotional reasons. Is this a previously uncredited entry in the Wood CV?

A group of scientists enter a pyramid that has been explored many times and find a monster and a mummy without the use of a single pick-ax or stick of dynamite. They just walk until they find them. True, they had a psychic with them, but she seemed to be as lost as the rest. The mummy and monster are brought back to civilization, where the monster escapes and the mummy turns into a werewolf! Yes, it's another cobbled together mess from Uncle Jerry Warren. This time he slaps together bits of two Mexican monster films and spends about four dollars on some American actors doing some framing scenes. Not as hilarious as Attack of the Mayan Mummy, but it keeps you glued to the screen trying to follow the story. (Spoilers-How can you spoil something already gone bad?) An overweight mummy (a first!) is placed in a dry cleaning machine. When he comes out, he's wearing modern shoes, pants, belt and dress shirt. Oh, yes, and he's a werewolf on top of being an overweight mummy. The other monster, woman in his arms, knocks out two well built men who come upon him, without putting down the woman. Three men steal the mummy the night when it's about to be shown to the public. They drive away, followed by the police. The police catch up with the car, then takes the next off ramp, letting the bad guys get away. I'm surprised that they didn't have poor Lon Chaney (the overweight mummy) sitting in the back seat! A real mess. My rating: 2 out of 10. BAD.

This movie presents about eight minutes of scenes with Lon Chaney Jr. and the rest its a long mexican movie pasted with another werewolf movie... and, what about the logic, and the continuity? The best scene of this stuff its at the beginning, the scientist and the mesmerized woman. But, I strongly recommend this movie to all Chaney Jr. fans!

Can a movie, that actually consists scenes from two mexican monsterthrillers plus additional scenes from US for commersial interests, be successful? - Yes! This is a dreamlike and incoherently edited oddity that tells a story of a centralamerican mummy found at the excur- sions of a pyramid. Also there is a mad scientist who in his experiments with revivification, succeeds in waking the mummy. And there´s a thunderstorm! The mummy is transformed into a werewolf played by Lon Chaney jnr! Its wild, suspenseful, trancendental, poetic in its "silents" looks and pace and there is a musical number of exotica style too, with an Yma Sumaclike vocalist in a "flashback" Aztec ritual scene! I was overwhelmed of the total impact of this movie as seen through the eyes of someone who value uniqueness and improvised quality in lowbudgetfantasy that really works as avantgarde poetry. The images and atmosphere of Ancient Civilisation, Pyramids, detectiveworks, a scary rotten walking mummy, a terrifying werewolf,terrified womens faces and all these mysterios cuts between scenes from one film to another creates a nightmare with no other logic than the dream´s own. I recommend this for all who has a vivid imagination and for all of you who believe that insanity can be genial!