Face of the Screaming Werewolf

Cheezyflicks

R0 DVD

It’s hard to describe just how awesomely bad this 1964 film is. For a start it was mostly cobbled together from two Mexican films, La Casa Del Terror and La Momia Aztec. Producer Jerry Warren then added a few scenes of his own to improve the disjointed narrative. It didn’t work. Lon Chaney Jr plays the wolfman for the last time, and after this film I’m not surprised. A factual background wasn’t really important so we have Aztec priestesses screeching operatically. It’s hilarious.

The plot is bad, too. A woman has been hypnotised in the lab by the usual spiralling whirly thing into regressing to her former life as an Aztec priestess. She tells of a hidden chamber in an Aztec pyramid, so her American scientist friend takes them there to find the lost treasures that undoubtedly lie in such a chamber. They find two mummies, one an ancient Aztec priest and the other a more modern man. They bring both mummies back to the U.S. where one is stolen by a rival scientist. Both are revived. The stolen one is a werewolf, The other mummy is revived and they start the usual killing spree.

I don’t recall seeing an explanation of how the werewolf finished up mummified in the pyramid, or indeed what it was doing in the Yucatan (their home ground is Europe). I don’t recall the Aztecs having priestesses either, even if their main purpose seems to be doing “exotic” dances.

I can only assume this is the sixties equivalent of the current breed of budget horror films, but without the class and style. It’s hilarious.

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