History Film / TheRobotVsTheAztecMummy

With a sub-barrel-bottomed budget, this 1958 Mexican horror outing features wicked old Dr. Krupp, a.k.a. "The Bat", the crazed experimenter who caused trouble in this film's two predecessors, ''The Aztec Mummy'' and ''Curse of the Aztec Mummy'' (both 1957), up to his old tricks. As in the former features, he is again trying to trick the Aztec mummy Popoca into leaving his crypt so the bad doctor can get at the treasure within. This time his scheme entails the invention of the title tin man (complete with incandescent light-bulb ears), a device he equips with a human brain. A horrific battle ensues when the two monsters collide.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Aztecs did not, in fact, practice mummification. [[note]] To be clear, Aztec mummies do exist, but are usually desiccated by natural processes rather than a deliberate enabling procedure. The mummy in this movie gets bindings and a sarcophagus that are much more in line with Egyptian practices [[/note]]

* CoolVersusAwesome: Welllllll... it's what they were ''going'' for, anyway.
* {{Cyborg}}: Probably what they meant by "human robot". To be fair, this movie came out about 2 years before the term was invented.
* DamselInDistress: Flora is pretty much this. She gets sacrificed in a past life as Xochi, gets kidnapped and hypnotized by Krupp in her present life and is made an unwilling servant of Krupp via said hypnosis by doing tasks for him while sleepwalking like a non-lethal [[Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari Cesare]].

* EvilGloating: Dr. Krupp cranks up the LargeHam and give a ludicrously-long monologue about his EvilPlan and what his cyborg is capable of. It goes on waaaaay to long which makes the AntiClimax even more glaring.

* LargeHam: Dr. Krupp (Big time. Like a Saturday Morning cartoon villain. He must be seen to be believed).

* RevengeBeforeReason: Dr. Krupp finally completes his humanoid robot- his lifelong work, the whole reason he wanted the Aztec treasure to start with. He has no reason to sic it on Popoca- who has already almost killed him once- except desire for revenge.
* StarCrossedLovers: Popoca & Xochi's backstory and the reason Popoca became a mummy. Xochi was a Vestal-virgin-like Priestess who committed the sin of being in a romantic relationship.

* TinCanRobot: The "Human Robot" is a man wearing a number of tin boxes and a bucket over his head.
* TwoFaced: As shown by the extensive flashback footage, Krupp's henchman Bruno was burned by Popoca and holds a grudge towards it for having half of his face scarred.
* UselessProtagonist: Dr. Almada and Pinacate get taken prisoner the instant they find the Dr. Krupp's lair. Popoca handles all the heavy lifting in the "beat the bad guy" department.

* HypnotizeThePrincess: Flora seems to get hypnotized quite a bit in this movie.

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With a sub-barrel-bottomed budget, this Mexican horror outing features wicked old Dr. Krupp, a.k.a. "The Bat", the crazed experimenter who caused trouble in this film's two predecessors, ''The Aztec Mummy'' and ''Curse of the Aztec Mummy'' (both 1957), up to his old tricks. As in the former features, he is again trying to trick the Aztec mummy Popoca into leaving his crypt so the bad doctor can get at the treasure within. This time his scheme entails the invention of the title tin man (complete with incandescent light-bulb ears), a device he equips with a human brain. A horrific battle ensues when the two monsters collide.

* LargeHam: Dr. Krupp.

* {{Flashback}}: ''Almost the entire movie.'' The first half of the film consists of Dr. Almada narrating the events of the first two films in the series. The ''actual'' plot of this movie doesn't crop up until nearly the end.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Aztecs did not, in fact, practice mummification.

* TwoFaced: As shown by the extensive flashback footage, Krupp's henchman was burned by Popoca and holds a grudge towards it for having half of his face scarred.

For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S01E02TheRobotVsTheAztecMummy episode recap page]].