La vengeance de la momie

The Wrestling Women vs. The Aztec Mummy (1964) is a Mexican film 🇲🇽 that I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a group of female wrestlers who take on would-be thieves and a transformational mummy threatening their village.

Directed by René Cardona (Santa Claus), the film stars Lorena Velázquez (The Rape of the Sabines), Armando Silvestre (Two Mules for Sister Sara), Ramón Bugarini (Hellish Spiders), and Nathanael León (Grave Robbers).

This is one of those films you watch for the ride, not for its quality as a "good movie." The cast is fun, though the women are far too glamorous to be wrestlers. The wrestling scenes are uneven-while the opening sequence is entertaining, the later one leans heavily into cheesiness. The horror elements are limited, but the corpses, skeletons, and the mummy itself are a highlight. Unfortunately, the mummy doesn't appear until the final 18 minutes of the film, which feels like a missed opportunity.

In conclusion, The Wrestling Women vs. The Aztec Mummy offers a fun, campy ride for horror enthusiasts seeking something unique. I'd score this a 4.5/10 and recommend it only with the appropriate expectations.

I first saw this movie as part of a double video, with Phil Tucker's Robot Monster..needless to say, this bill wasn't put together as two brilliant examples of the best films ever made.This one rules, though..there is nothing like seeing overweight wrestling women, Samson (the masked mexican wrestler) and the WORST EVER mummy costume all together in one feature. Don't bother trying to follow the plot, or searching for the myriad errors in continuity..just lay back with your sense of the absurd in hand, along with something cold and refreshing, and let your troubles melt away in a fine and glorious wash of true silliness.

(aka: WRESTLING WOMEN vs. THE AZTEC MUMMY)

Our two wrestling babes from DOCTOR OF DOOM are back, ready to kick some more ass.

This time it's a oriental villain called the Red Dragon who is having his gang kill off a group of archeologists who have stumbled on to code that will lead them to an Aztec treasure. The Red Dragon needs the last surviving member of the group, a Dr. Tracy, in order to get it. And of course our two wrestling babes are called in to help.

This one is so laughingly bad, it had my sides splitting. I love the scene where they encounter the Aztec mummy in the tomb and he looks like he's wearing a Halloween mask.

And then he changes into a bat, too!

(laughs)

The Something Weird video is doubled up with DOCTOR OF DOOM and has tons of extras including many trailers for other Mexican horror films they have in their library. Although the b/w print shows it's age, it's far better than the old grainy VHS tape.

6 out of 10 for giving it the old college try…

(more laughs)

The Rock and Roll score appended to the English language release does not mesh well with the cultural mystique. I suggest that Verdi might be better suited. Perhaps La Traviata.

There are 2 versions of this film.There is the Rhino release called "Rock And Roll Wrestling Women Vs The Aztec Mummy".The dialogue was removed and it was turned into a musical. It is also missing about 30 minutes of film. Skip that and watch this one.

To be short there is a gang of Oriental baddies led by the Black Dragon and his 2 Kung Fu sisters(long before the Kung Fu genre exploded).He wants the code of a map to an Aztec Pyramid that contains a golden breast plate.So using violence, hypnotism and a great closed circuit tv he attempts to gather all of the code.(If ol' skip had a closed circuit tv like that it would have been in the Wrestling Women's shower room hubba hubba).

The Wrestling Women are a couple of hot babes that can seriously kick your arse.They square off against the kung fu sisters in a duel to obtain the code.The kung fu sisters get their butts handed to them.Our intrepid band hustles to the pyramid to grab the treasure.

The Aztec Mummy is awakened when the golden breast plate is removed from his long dead sweetie. This boy is ugly,mean and sounds really scary.He moans and howls like he has a serious case of intestinal distress.He can also change into a bat and a spider.Everyone is in some serious trouble as the Mummy begins to slaughter seeking the breast plate.

As usual the comic relief in these movies really grates on you.He does have some cool lines but you would like to see the Mummy remove his pea sized brain forcibly. Some of the Wrestling scenes drag on but that is worshipped in Mexico and a main part of the plot.The Mummy doesn't show up until an hour into the film and that is too bad.He is pretty scary and vicious.

But this movie is better than average and deserves a look when you're in the mood for something not too taxing.