My mindset on vintage horror flicks goes a little something like this – they’re without a shadow of a doubt all classics. There will be always be films that are more popular and stand out more than other black and white labeled pioneers of earlier film-hood, but the question begs, have you’ve ever seen a horrible horror movie from the Lon Chaney Jr. or Boris Karloff days? Before tonight, I can honestly say no. Then, I had to go and watch Cheezy Flicks version of Face of the Screaming Werewolf starring Lon Chaney Jr. and was directed by three directors. Remember what I’ve always said about having multiple directors – the shit never works!
Dr. Redding and his team use hypnosis on a Cali girl named Ann Taylor in discovering ancient forms of life in the Yucatan pyramids. When him and his team go exploring through the deep dark tunnels of the ruins, a living-ish breathing-ish mummy attacks them, but falls when the team fights back. They also discover a more modern individual also mummified for unknown reasons. Dr. Redding takes both mummified subjects back to America, but is soon killed and the modern mummy is stolen when Redding attempts to showcase his finds. When the modern man is revived by a bolt of lightning (Frankenstein reference anyone?), his uncanny secret of being a werewolf is revealed when the full moon just happens to be out at the same time as his revival. The werewolf and the mummy are both reanimated and walk the city, stalking and killing innocent folk. Who will stop them? Hell if I know.
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