An Aztec mummy (Jeffrey Uhlmann, an American research scientist whose work is concentrated on the linear quadratic estimation; he also wrote this movie) is brought back by a human sacrificed and given a jeweled staff that can control minds thanks to the hallucinogenic powers of Aztec mushrooms. He also has twin witches (Gwenda Perez) to help him dominate humanity.
Jeff Burr shot about two weeks of this film before leaving - he's credited as Andrew Quint - and the movie was finished by Uhlmann's fellow University of Missouri professor Chip Gubera.
This movie is so respectful of Mascaras - it says that he has "the mind of a scientist, the soul of an artist, the body of a great athlete, and yet there's something more about him. Something that separates him from other men." This also throws everything lucha movies should have against our hero. Beyond just the mummy, we get a robot, vampire women and zombies.
But even better, it has the President of the U. S. be played by Richard Lynch and at that point, this movie had me in its headlock. It tops that by giving us a tag match between El Hijo del Santo and Mil against two rudos that is judged by PJ Soles and Harley Race and then, Mil gets help against the zombies from Blue Demon Jr., Dos Caras, Neutron and Huracán Ramírez, Jr.
This movie is amazing. It doesn't make fun of its subject and at the same time it doesn't get ultra serious. It's a perfect way of making a lucha film that works, even in the 2000s.
Jeff Burr shot about two weeks of this film before leaving - he's credited as Andrew Quint - and the movie was finished by Uhlmann's fellow University of Missouri professor Chip Gubera.
This movie is so respectful of Mascaras - it says that he has "the mind of a scientist, the soul of an artist, the body of a great athlete, and yet there's something more about him. Something that separates him from other men." This also throws everything lucha movies should have against our hero. Beyond just the mummy, we get a robot, vampire women and zombies.
But even better, it has the President of the U. S. be played by Richard Lynch and at that point, this movie had me in its headlock. It tops that by giving us a tag match between El Hijo del Santo and Mil against two rudos that is judged by PJ Soles and Harley Race and then, Mil gets help against the zombies from Blue Demon Jr., Dos Caras, Neutron and Huracán Ramírez, Jr.
This movie is amazing. It doesn't make fun of its subject and at the same time it doesn't get ultra serious. It's a perfect way of making a lucha film that works, even in the 2000s.