Line #8 Film/TheRobotVsTheAztecMummy


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3	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 titular 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.
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5	For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S01E02TheRobotVsTheAztecMummy episode recap page]].
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8	!!''The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy'' provides examples of:
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10	* AdvertisedExtra: The robot doesn't show up until the last ten minutes of the movie.
11	* AffablyEvil: Dr. Krupp is nice enough to give Dr. Almada a belated congratulations for his wedding.
12	* AntiClimax: The fight between the robot and the Aztec mummy only lasts about one and a half minutes.
13	* 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]]
14	* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: Popoca is completely harmless unless someone disturbs him. Guess what Dr. Krupp does.
15	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: During Krupp's [[EvilGloating lengthy diatribe]] before he unveiled the Robot, he mentioned that he "tortured many animals, with pleasure" as part of his studies.
16	* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The opening narration claims that the events of this movie are based on a real experiment. Naturally, there was no such true event involving a robot and an Aztec mummy.
17	* CoolVersusAwesome: Wellllll... it's what they were ''going'' for, anyway.
18	* {{Cyborg}}: Probably what they meant by "human robot". To be fair, this movie came out about two years before the term was invented.
19	* 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, doing tasks for him while sleepwalking like a non-lethal [[Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari Cesare]].
20	* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy: Flora is hypnotized to remember her past life as the mummy's girlfriend, Xochi.
21	* {{Flashback}}: ''Almost the entire fricken' 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.
22	* 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 too long, which makes the AntiClimax even more glaring.
23	* HolyBurnsEvil: The Mummy doesn't like the sight of the cross, though he's not really evil.
24	* LargeHam: Dr. Krupp, big time. Like a Saturday morning cartoon villain. He must be seen to be believed.
25	* HorrifyingHero: Popoca, a living and violent mummy fighting against the MadScientist Dr. Krupp.
26	* MadScientist: Doctor "The Bat" Krupp.
27	* MrExposition: Dr. Almada. About ''two thirds of the movie'' is a flashback that he narrates.
28	* {{Mummy}}: One notably based on Egyptian mummies, despite being ostensibly Aztec.
29	* NotaryNonsense: The very cheesy opening narration states that a notary public leaves no doubt that this movie is based on true events:
30	-->'''Narrator:''' There is no doubt as to its authenticity. Testimony of people participating in the experiment, sworn to by a notary public, preclude the possibility of any fraud.
31	* 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 a desire for revenge.
32	* StarCrossedLovers: Popoca and 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.
33	* StockFootage: Dr. Almada's recap narration is peppered with stock footage from the previous two films. And some of the stuff from the ''first'' film had already been recycled for the ''second'' film.
34	* TheJuggernaut: Bullets have no effect on Popoca, and he makes short work of Krupp's super-strong robot. In previous films he survived a temple collapsing on him.
35	* TinCanRobot: The "human robot" is a man wearing a number of tin boxes and a bucket over his head.
36	* TwoFaced: As shown in the extensive flashback footage, Krupp's henchman Bruno was burned by Popoca and holds a grudge towards it for scarring half of his face.
37	* UselessProtagonist: Dr. Almada and Pinacate get taken prisoner the instant they find Dr. Krupp's lair. Popoca handles all the heavy lifting in the "beat the bad guy" department.
38	* VersusTitle: The title.
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