Year: 1960
Runtime: 82 mins
Language: Spanish
Director: Gilberto Martínez Solares
Casimiro, a drowsy night watchman at a horror wax museum, is being silently bled by his boss, the Professor, who harvests his blood for futile attempts to reanimate the dead. The failed experiments leave victims waxed and displayed. When a modern man's mummy is discovered in an Egyptian sarcophagus, the Professor and two henchmen steal it for another trial, which also ends in disaster.
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Casimiro Germán Valdés, the night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, has been napping more frequently on the job because his boss, Professor Sebastian Yerye Beirute, is secretly draining blood from him while he sleeps to use in his experiments in resurrection, experiments conducted in his hidden laboratory behind the wax museum.
The mad doctor’s attempts haven’t worked so far, and the bodies of his failures have been covered in wax and placed in the museum to cover his crimes.
The professor learns that the mummified body of a man Lon Chaney Jr. has been found preserved in an Egyptian sarcophagus. The professor and his two henchmen steal the body of the mummy and take it back to his lab—but after the mummy is unwrapped, they fail to revive him.
After the doctor and his men leave the lab that night, a bolt of lightning reactivates the equipment and provides the surge needed to revive the dead man. As he struggles to awareness, the clouds outside part, the full moon shines on his face through a window, and the resurrected corpse transforms into a werewolf.
Casimiro sees the creature wandering around the museum, but no one will believe him, not even his girlfriend, Paquita Yolanda Varela.
When the professor and his men return, the werewolf kills one of his henchmen, and the Wolf Man is imprisoned in a cage inside the lab. He later escapes and lopes off to the nearest park, where he strangles and bites a few innocent people.
The werewolf winds up at Paquita’s apartment, and Casimiro arrives there just in time to see his girlfriend being abducted. He bravely follows them back to the wax museum and after witnessing the werewolf brutally slay Professor Sebastian, Casimiro gets the jump on the werewolf and beats him to death with a burning torch. The museum and lab catch fire, and the werewolf’s body is immolated in the flames.
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