SANTO EN LA VENGANZA DE LA MOMIA 2003 Horror Movie Review

When I was a kid I loved the Jungle Jim movies starring former screen Tarzan and Olympic swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller.Jim,who was originally a comic strip character,was a two-fisted American adventurer who roamed through Africa and India leading safaris and finding lost cities and treasures.Sort of like an Indiana Jones prototype.This film finds el Santo entering into Jungle Jim territory.In it the silver-masked wrestler,decked out in a safari outfit,joins an expedition into Mexico’s jungles looking for a mummy’s tomb and it’s treasure.Instead they find a living mummy.And just as in Hollywood’s mummy movies from the 1930s and 40s there’s a flashback sequence where we learn the creature’s origin.Of course it features ancient Aztecs instead of Egyptians,but you’ll still get a feeling of deja vu anyway.This film is fun.It doesn’t have production values equal to the Santo films of the early 60s,but it’s still worth watching.It’s sub-titled for those who don’t speak Spanish,and it even has a Scooby-Doo ending.