In the history of great monster match-ups, KING KONG VS. GODZILLA, FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN, FREDDY VS. JASON etc., this would probably be around the bottom of the list of enemies you can't wait to see battle it out. Maybe if this robot looked more like the one from ROBOT MONSTER it woulda been more epic but that's not exactly what you get, though this robot is almost equally dumb-looking. This is the 3rd film in the Aztec Mummy saga, following THE AZTEC MUMMY and CURSE OF THE AZTEC MUMMY, and up until the big final battle at the end it recycles footage of the mummy from the 1st two movies explaining his origin and all that. You would think that the human robot might be the good guy in this fight, since the mummy is a revenge-seeking murdering bastard, but this standard big clunky 50's robot with a human face is actually controlled by a mad scientist, which makes the mummy our hero by default. Like most of these 50's/60's Mexi-horror flicks this one has some slow talky bits, but luckily it has a pretty short run-time and it does deliver what it promises.
K. Gordon Murray dubbed this and released it in the U.S. in the 60's as THE ROBOT VS. THE AZTEC MUMMY. The print of the original version of this that I saw looked a lot better than any of the dubbed ones that I've ever seen.
The mummy would go on to battle some wrestling women in the 60's and was even in a more recent porn flick that I'm sort of afraid to watch.
This trailer for this sweet double-feature spook-show is way scarier than anything in this movie:
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