Face of the Screaming Werewolf

I just watched this 1965 flick on YouTube last night. Good Lord, it was so bad but so damn funny. The filmmaker, Jerry Warren, combined scenes of 2 old Mexican horror movies La Casa del Terror (the house of terror) from 1960 and La Momia Azteca (the Aztec mummy) from 1957, with new footage and released it under the title Face of the Screaming Werewolf. The result was a nonsensical mess that would’ve made Ed Wood proud.

The “story”, if you could call it that, begins with a doctor hypnotizing a woman and regressing her back to memories of a past life in a pyramid in Yucatán. They use this information to find the pyramid and 2 mummies (one played by Lon Chaney Jr.), that they take back to civilization. Then the Lon Chaney mummy gets stolen by another mad scientist and his henchmen, and taken back to a lab to attempt to revive it with electricity.

The Mummy is revived and then turns into a werewolf (?!?), and then escapes. So the mad scientist sends another colleague to steal the other Mummy, who happens to be alive (???) and it escapes and kidnaps the woman who was hypnotized. Then they both end up getting killed in a car accident. Then the “story” jumps back to the werewolf, who goes on a rampage throughout the city, attempting to kidnap a few women before he ends up back in the lab and kills the mad scientist. Then the werewolf gets burned alive and dies.

This flick has all the low budget shenanigans you’ll love in a bad movie. Cheesy makeup and bad special effects, a storyline that has no point other than to try fitting plots from 2 unrelated movies in order to make a cohesive story (plot twist: it doesn’t), and a bunch of random, hilarious scenes that lack logic, such as a raging thunder storm one minute, followed by calm weather the next, and sequences of the werewolf wandering the streets with no one noticing a hairy beast just walking around. He even climbs up a wall. If you love films such as Plan 9 From Outer Space, then I highly recommend this nonsensical absurdity. It’s available for free on YouTube.

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