How sad is this?
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
View MoreOk... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
View MoreThis movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
View MoreRule of thumb in the 1960's in making a schlocky horror film: visit local pre-school's and kindergarten's, collect various art supplies (paper mache, styrofoam, large pieces of cardboard and colored construction paper, popsicle sticks, etc.), and hire a faded actor like John Carradine or Lon Chaney Jr.). Pull together bits and pieces of short stories and expand with as many idiotic small details that you can think of. Mix all of these together and stir. Bake for an hour, and then send to a drive-in theater, and there you have it: a schlocky horror film along the lines of "Face of the Screaming Werewolf".The faded star here is Chaney, running around, snarling, grabbing screaming women, then barely missing an elevator as a woman inside screams. Another ghoul throws a man off of the roof, but fortunately, there's an awning to catch him. The film starts off with a flashback to an Aztec temple sacrifice ceremony where one of the characters in the present day was once an Aztec princess. This sequence is where the paper mache and styrofoam come in handy, painted to look like bricks, and held together by jarred paste. The actors look nothing like what the Aztecs must have, and the sequence as a whole goes on far too long. Chaney is there for name only, and most of the intended frights only bring laughs. At only an hour, this won't make you feel that you've wasted too much time, and you'll find plenty to laugh at, not laugh with.
View MoreWell, having just previously watched La casa del terror, I now have also seen this-Face of the Screaming Werewolf-which contains footage of La casa del terror and La momia azteca, both Mexican-made horror movies. The Lon Chaney Jr. footage from the former is still not very exciting. Also dull is the new footage directed by Jerry Warren who's the producer who stitched this movie together and not very well since his new segments look very different, lighting-wise, from the Mexican footage assembled with it. The only parts I liked were the ones from La momia azteca which I've yet to watch in its entirety. So on that note, Face of the Screaming Werewolf only gets a 2 from me....
View MoreI just finished watching this film and I'm almost speechless about it. This movie is so weird that you would have to see it to believe it. It's in no way a good story - yet there is something about it that I enjoyed.The music soundtrack is actually very hypnotizing and helps make the film better by enhancing the scenes - and it's just as odd as this pieced together movie.As other reviewers have mentioned, this movie is bits and pieces of two films put together to make one film(La momia azteca and La casa del terror) with some added footage to complete it. The spliced together movies does not make any sense at all. I expected some sort of explanation at the end of the film to help tie together The Mummy and Werewolf - but there is no explanation to help summon it all.But there is something about this mixed up movie that is good, entertaining in a strange sort of way. I would rate this movie 4/10 BUT the oddness of the movie and the strange hypnotizing soundtrack gets bonus points so I will rate this movie 6.6/10
View MoreI'm sorry, but I have a totally different opinion on this movie - if you can name it a "movie". If you want to see Lon Chaney Jr in his last Wolf Man theatrical appearance, it's better for you to catch the original version of this film, LA CASA DEL TERROR, Mexico 1959, directed by Gilberto Martinez Solares. As usual, Mr. Warren totally destroyed an excellent film in cutting about one-third, mixing it with elements of a Rafael Portillo mummy film totally unrelated with the other, and (always as usual) putting his name on a film made by others. Not only the original LA CASA DEL TERROR is an excellent film, but the comic elements (with Tin Tan) are well integrated with the horror segments, as it was the case in ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, also with Chaney...
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