Not one of Paul Naschy's best films and probably only watchable to die-hard Naschy fans. In this one he plays a mummy who looks more like a crud-faced monster that just crawled out of a lake. He also plays an Egyptian descendent of the mummy who serves as the resurrected mummies henchman. A pretty slow-moving, talky experience but quite violent(especially surprising since the version I viewed was a TV print) You get throats sliced and lots of head trauma. Heads are squeezed to death, smashed to a bloody pulp and bashed against walls. Apparently this mummy has a problem with heads. It sure beats the classic mummy method of boring old strangulation. Unfortunately that's about the only thing this Spanish horror tale has going for it. The hero is played by Jack Taylor who is one of the most boring actors ever. I got to see this projected in a theater otherwise I'm pretty sure I woulda been asleep pretty quickly.
head smash!:
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