Face of the Screaming Werewolf
Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena has discovered that Ann Taylor is a reincarnated Aztec woman. Via her recovered memories, she is able to lead Redding and his associates to a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan, where they hope to find the lost treasure of the Aztecs. Instead, they find two mummified bodies - one of a modern man, quite dead, and the other of an ancient Aztec, quite alive. They are able to return safely to Pasadena with both finds, but a rival professor, Janney, kills Redding and steals the body of the modern man-mummy. This he subjects to a resurrection experiment, which works - only the mummy proves to be a werewolf. This creature breaks free of Janney's lab. Meanwhile, a hired thief sent by Janney to steal the other, living mummy, is overcome and that creature escapes also. Two supernatural menaces roam the city that night...
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 1h
- Released
- 1964
- Country
- Mexico, United States
Details
Release year: 1964
Storyline
Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena has discovered that Ann Taylor is a reincarnated Aztec woman. Via her recovered memories, she is able to lead Redding and his associates to a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan, where they hope to find the lost treasure of the Aztecs. Instead, they find two mummified bodies - one of a modern man, quite dead, and the other of an ancient Aztec, quite alive. They are able to return safely to Pasadena with both finds, but a rival professor, Janney, kills Redding and steals the body of the modern man-mummy. This he subjects to a resurrection experiment, which works - only the mummy proves to be a werewolf. This creature breaks free of Janney's lab. Meanwhile, a hired thief sent by Janney to steal the other, living mummy, is overcome and that creature escapes also. Two supernatural menaces roam the city that night...
Top credits
Yolanda Varela — Woman in Apartment
Lon Chaney Jr. — The Mummified Werewolf- Alfredo Wally Barrón — Henchman
Ramón Gay — Dr. Edmund Redding
Did you know
• It's been said that Edward D. Wood Jr. filmed a few scenes of Lon Chaney Jr. in a werewolf costume in Hollywood in 1964, which Jerry Warren incorporated, Chaney biographer Don G. Smith however has stated that this story was never substantiated.
• Edited footage from La Momia Azteca (1957) and La Casa Del Terror (1960)
• The laboratory scene features electronic sound effects lifted from Forbidden Planet (1956).
User reviews
Wow, that was bad ...
Face of the Screaming Werewolf was a very uneven mix, due to the mixture of scenes from two Mexican movies and some new ones from producer/direcror Jerry Warren
More of Jerry's Junk (with Spoilers)
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Color
- Black and White
