Rafael Lopez Portillo Movies

Victor Manuel Castro's comedy Munecas de Media Noche tells the tale of a man of a man who loses his job as a nightclub entertainer after a vacation that he ended up extending without notifying his employer. He comes up with a variety of outrageous scams in order to get his place on the stage back. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

This horror oddity tells the story of a well-networked throng of devil-worshipers populating a small Arizona town who possess a strange crystal icon which houses the captive souls of their sacrificial victims. The coven, led by the thick-browed Jonathan Corbis (Ernest Borgnine), are also determined to get their hands on a diabolical "Book of Names" which contains the identities of those victims. After the family of Tom Preston (Tom Skeritt) are murdered by the coven for concealing the book, Tom sets out to avenge them. During an outrageous climax -- in which none other than William Shatner is offered up in sacrifice and Borgnine is transformed by a lightning bolt into a chunky horned demon -- the receptacle of souls is shattered, releasing the title storm and causing the congregation to melt into puddles of multicolored goo (a scene which seems to last forever). Produced in 1975 but released two years later, this film touted John Travolta's name at the height of his popularity, though his role is remarkably small (he does melt nicely at the end, however). ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi

Another import horror chop-job courtesy of producer Jerry Warren, this time with a recognizable American star -- sort of. Lon Chaney, Jr. returns to Wolf Man mode once again (albeit a cheaper, low-rent version that seems to incorporate shag carpet swatches) in what was originally a Mexican monster spoof... but thanks to slapdash English dubbing and re-editing, the only laughs on display here are purely unintentional. The plot involves a mad scientist's efforts to revive a pair of mummified bodies recovered from the Yucatan Pyramid. The process works on the first mummy, which turns out to be the lycanthropic Chaney. While the monster escapes and goes on an uninteresting rampage in the nearby town, the second corpse is spirited away by thieves, who discover the hard way that their quarry is also capable of revival, even without scientific assistance. This messy film essentially consists of footage from the 1959 Mexican film La Casa del Terror, footage from 1957's La Momia Azteca, and new footage shot by Warren, all edited together. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi

With a sub-barrel bottomed budget, this Mexican horror outing features wicked old Dr. Krupp, the crazed experimenter who caused trouble in this film's two predecessors The Aztec Mummy and Curse of the Aztec Mummy (both 1957), up to his old tricks. As in the former features, he is again trying to trick the Aztec mummy Popoca into leaving his crypt so the bad doctor can get at the treasure within. This time his scheme entails the invention of the title tin man (complete with incandescent light bulb ears), a device he equips with a human brain. A horrific battle ensues when the two monsters collide. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi