A Mayan temple maiden named Xochitl is reincarnated centuries later as a woman named Ann Taylor. A scientist uses hypnosis to cause her to regress to her earlier life many centuries ago when she was executed by the high priests for having an affair with a Mayan warrior named Popoca. As punishment, Popoca was turned into a living mummy and placed in a pyramid tomb where he must guard Xochitl’s remains and a Mayan treasure for all eternity. Ann Taylor leads an expedition of archaeologists to the hidden tomb where a valuable gold breastplate is guarded by the still living Popoca.
Director: Rafael Portillo & Jerry Warren.
Stars: Nina Knight, Richard Webb, John Burton, Bruno VeSota, Steve Conte, George Mitchell, Chuck Niles, Luis Aceves Castaneda, Crox Alvarado, Rosita Arenas, Ramón Gay.
That mummy is Aztec, not Mayan, lol. Jerry Warren could really make dreadful movies like this, combining endless dialogue scenes with excerpt from Rafael Portillo’s “La momia azteca”, not a very good film but the first movie that terrified me when I was 6 years old.