[3] The film remained in obscurity until late 1989, when it was featured as the second nationally broadcast episode of movie-mocking television series Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Krupp's former colleague and original finder of the mummy, Dr. Eduardo Almada (Ramón Gay), his wife Flora, and his associate Pinacate, all work to stop the mad scientist from completing his plans.

The two monsters engage in a fierce struggle to the death, but the robot's ability to deliver burns due to electrical shocks from its hands quickly begins to wear the mummy out.

English-language dubbing rights were subsequently acquired by entrepreneur K. Gordon Murray, who theatrically distributed the film nationally in 1964 on a double feature bill with The Vampire's Coffin (El Ataud del Vampiro), as Young America Productions Inc.

Subsequently, he syndicated it to TV as one of a package of dubbed Mexican horror films which eventually gained a following in the U.S. through their appearance on the USA Network.

Three decades after its release, the TV program Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffed the film in the second episode of the first season, which aired for the first time in 1989.