Face of the Screaming Werewolf 1964
Three Doctors hypnotize Miss Ann Taylor with a revolving swirl on a fan. Her flashbacks ("I can see an ancient Land") reveal her leading a Mayan ceremony in a pyramid. A Doctor takes her to Yucatan, bringing on another (much longer) flashback, with dancing, a sacrificial-alter stabbing, and impressive Yma Sumac-style dancing. Lon Chaney Jnr as the traditional Universal-look Mummy, is seen briefly. A completely different growling Mexican Mummy is shot.
Back in civilization, the two Mummies are presented to an audience, the lights go out, the doctor is shot, and Chaney disappears, only to show up in a lab (Inside a Wax museum???), trapped in a pressure chamber. A mad doctor (Yerye Beirute later in Mexican Karloff movies) puts poor Chaney into a big, spinning machine. Later on, lightning strikes, wax figures are shown in closeup, the full moon shines, and the unbandaged Lon (looking as he did in the Indestructable Man) turns into the wolf man (!) (thanks to time lapse photography) and kills a man.
The other skinny Mummy with a scary face kidnaps his reincarnated princess. Newspaper headlines scream: ANN TAYLOR KILLED! MUMMY DESTROYED! The werewolf escapes from the operating table, kills more doctors, and is put in a cage. His first line of dialogue is "No!" When he escapes (again), he climbs all the way up the outside of a building with a woman on his back, then carries her down the stairs! After a chase scene with jazz music he returns to the lab, bites a doctor on the neck, then passes out - and dies in a fire. One of the cops says, "He was just an ordinary guy."
In most of the scenes, it's pretty obvious that the monster is a double. Most of the original dialogue footage was cut, and a radio announcer's voice informs us (in English) of what's going on. Mexican comedy star TIN TAN (real name Gordon Valdez) as the wax-museum care taker was also trimmed for the 1965 US release.
Some parts don't make much sense, but it's short (just over an hour), is fairly bloody (for the time), and must be the best Mummy-in-a-wax-museum-that's-not-really-a-werewolf movie ever made.
Review by Michael J Weldon - from the "PSYCHOTRONIC VIDEO GUIDE"
John has seen this film, and it really is this bad, it is hard to tell what is happening at times and the print I saw was very dark which did not make it any easier. The werewolf scenes with Lon Chaney are good, the time lapse werewolf changes are also very good and must of brought back happy memories of the Wolfman days for Lon. Mexican movies can be a bit hard to see at any time but this one with Lon Chaney repeating both his Mummy and Werewolf roles make it worth watching, as far as I am aware this film has not been released in Australia, nor been seen on TV. And to be honest it may never be, which is a shame.