THE STORY

REVIEWS

(NOTE: For a period of time in 2008 and 2009 the film screened under an alternate title "Mil Mascaras: Resurrection")

TRIVIA

• The Aztec tomb in which the Mummy was resurrected was constructed in a top-floor lab space of the main engineering building (Lafferre Hall). Over a ton of sand had to be hauled up stairs because there wasn't elevator access to it.


• The film was nominated for a Rondo Award for Best Picture (received Runner-Up Award).


• The Professor's lab was an actual engineering lab and the plasma device was a real piece of research equipment.


• The film screened at festivals spanning four continents.


• The stone knife used for the Aztec sacrifice was an actual artifact from the University's Art and Archeology Museum.


• Mil Mascaras provided the Aztec costumery and head-dress for the Mummy and the Aztec Chief from his personal collection.


• The Abandoned Monastery scenes were filmed at an abandoned 19th-Century stone building that was originally part of the prison in Jefferson City. The prison tasked actual prisoners to clean and prepare the location prior to filming.


• The wrestling sequences were filmed on the stage of the Missouri Theatre.


• The production was given full access to the entire Capitol Building in Jefferson City, which is where all scenes involving the President (Richard Lynch) were filmed.


• The opening restaurant scene was filmed at Sophia's in Columbia.


• Mil's private jet was filmed at the airport in Jefferson City. When he was shown arriving in Washington, DC, the dome in the background was actually the Missouri Capitol Building.


• The location (interior and exterior) for the Professor's house was the Chancellor's Residence on campus.


• The location for the interior of Mil's home was the University Cast Gallery.


• Jesse Hall was the location for many scenes. Prominent examples include the main atrium, which was used for the police station, and the attic in the dome, which was used for the photo-shoot with the twins.


• Scott Uhlmann (Jeff's brother) created the body of the robot IDAKTOR. Jeff created the head and Mike Sullivan obtained the antennas from a vintage television. (Jeff created the control device by attaching a pair of rabbit-ear antennas to an old VCR remote.)


• Mike Sullivan transcribed actual Aztec glyphs/text to parchment to recreate artifacts from the Sahagun archives.


• Prof. James Calvin of the Art Department created the molds from which many of the Aztec sculptures and masks were cast.


• Karen Stix created the Mummy's scepter, which included a small battery-operated light to illuminate the Jewel of Tonauac.


• The film was featured in cover articles in Filmfax Magazine and Screem Magazine within only a few months of each other. The film has also been featured in articles in Shadowland, Rue Morgue, and other magazines.


• It is believed that no other film has included more computer science students portraying resurrected Aztec warriors.


• Jeff and Marco, who respectively portrayed the Mummy and the Aztec Chief, also battled Mil as henchmen loading cartons of blood into a van during the blood bank sequence.


• In the blood bank scene Jeff played a henchman who fought Mil, then a henchman who threatened Mil with a snake, and then the henchman who attempted to run down Mil in a van. In other words, Jeff was killed three times in during the blood bank sequence.


• Several students and graduates of Merrill University of Cosmetology were responsible for hair and make-up for the film.


• When there was a shortage of personnel for a shot of resurrected Aztec warriors coming over a hill, several of the hair & make-up women donned costumes to fill out their ranks.


• The locker room location for the Magister seduction scene was the Rothwell Club at the Brewer Field house on campus.


• The mushrooms in the psychedelic mushroom scene may or may not have been actual psilocybe mushrooms.


• Kurt Mirtsching (the Professor) and his wife Karen provided their personal Rolls Royce for Santo's arrival at the wrestling venue in the film.


• Dan Flynn portrayed three different characters who fought Mil: one in the Aztec tomb, one in the ring during the tag-team match, and one at the abandoned monastery. (Dan performed similar service in the following two films.)


• Jeff and Pal owned much of the heavy equipment (dolly, large lights, etc.) which they provided at no charge for many films (e.g., Academy of Doom) shot in mid-Missouri and Kansas City.


• Ten years later, the Aztec mummy's throne and all of the set dressing for the abandoned monastery scenes were still in the stone building near the prison in Jefferson City exactly as it was left in 2005.