Santo Vs. Nazis

 

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SANTO EN ANONIMO MORTAL-(ANONYMOUS DEATH THREAT)-1972-When a jeweler is fatally shot and real estate agent pushed off a roof, Inspector Ponce (Armando Silvertre) is stumped. They both received notes they were going to be killed. Mario Gaos (Xaiver Masse) is worried. He received a note too. His wife wants to call the police but Gaos decides the only person who can help him is Mexico's number one wrestling crime fighter, the one and only El Santo (himself). And no sooner is his name spoken than we see him in the squared circle in a pretty rough match. After the match, he is visited by Gaos. Santo promises to guard Gaos night and day with the help of his two cohorts Pablo (Georgio Casal) and Yvette (Tere Velazquez). At work, a window washer slips into Gaos' office. He and Yvette fight. A bomb the window washer discreetly left in Gaos' office explodes, killing him. The murderer gets away.

 Later Ponce and his assistant Rocha (Raymundo Capetello) share clues with Santo then visit a guy named Henkel (Ivan J. Rado) who claims to have received a death letter and is very evasive about his involvement in WW 2. At night Santo wrestles an ordinary looking grappler called "El Nazi" (Ignacio Gomez). In the audience, a guy wearing a swastika armband and toting a rifle tries to kill our hero (no one in the crowd seems to notice him) but he misses and kills the opponent. Afterwards, Gaos' widow, Ester (Sasha Montenegro) receives a phone call saying she must kill Santo. She tries to give him a poisoned drink but the police call to tell Santo that even though Gaos was blown up, he was also slowly being poisoned to death (?). Santo goes to a warehouse to meet Henkel and is attacked by 3 guys with swastika armbands. Santo gets the better of them. Of course, Henkel is actually Von Struber, a war criminal heading a neo-Nazi party (with Gaos' wife) who escaped justice and is getting revenge on the people who testified against him! 

This isn't bad for a non-horror Santo movie. It was directed by Aldo Monti, who as an actor played Dracula twice in two other Santo movies, SANTO IN THE TREASURE OF DRACULA (1969) and SANTO AND THE BLUE DEMON VS. DRACULA AND THE WOLFMAN (1973).

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Samson aka Santo 2

 

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SAMSON VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMEN-1963-After 200 years, a vampire queen Zorina (Lorena Velazquez; SHIP OF MONSTERS (1960)) decides to return to hell and be with her husband Lucifer. She puts her priestess Tundra (Ofelia Montesco) in charge of finding a replacement. She sets her sights on Diane (Maria Duval) who's engaged to George. Diane's father, professor Orloff (Augusto Benedico) suspects something. He tells inspector Jackson (Jamie Fernandez) Diane is in danger. He knows Tundra wants his daughter for a ritual that involves Diane becoming the new queen of the vampire women. When Diane sees one of Tundra's vampire men at her window, Dad decides to call in Samson (Santo with an Americanized name) but he's off wrestling. Later the real queen shows up and she and her decrepit minions all drink blood and become young. At a costume party Tundra mesmerizes George and Diane is snatched. However, Samson's timely intervention prevents her from being taken away. Of course, later one of the vampire men pretends to be Samson's masked opponent in the ring. Not much else happens until Samson finds the vampire hideout and sets everything on fire. 

So-so US re-dubbing by K. Gordon Murray, its original Mexican title is SANTO VS. LAS MUJERES VAMPIRO and was directed by Alfonso Corona Blake (THE WORLD OF THE VAMPIRES (1961).

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Luchadum

 

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OPERATION LUCHADOR-2021-Dumb fake documentary comedy about fictional Mexican wrestler The Golden Angel (Carlos Valderrama) who is recruited by J. Edgar Hoover to be a spy for the Allies during WW2. The pro Nazi director, Alain Vezina, seems obsessed with the swastika, views Hitler as a genius and makes light of their experiments with comic bits like canine pilots. The Angel fights the Yeti, a Nazi agent. Idiotic. Hitler is even thanked at the end...

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Late Santo

 

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THE FIST OF DEATH-1982-During a very long pagan ritual, a woman (Grace Renat) dressed in black transforms into a monster, a tiger and a snake. Her sister (the same actress), clad in white banishes her for blasphemy and using "the star of great power" for evil. An "oracle" sends El Santo (himself) and his whiny assistant Cliff (Cesar Suarez) to help the good sister who is also trying to protect "The Jungle Girl" who was raised by wolves. She also plans to marry a Chinese prince (Steve Cheng). Both sisters are fairly bursting out of their furry bikinis and the bad one does an erotic dance several times. Santo fights a furry man beast and a tiger. 

The fights and pacing are terrible. The ending sets up a sequel (FURY OF THE KARATE EXPERTS) which was made back-to-back with this film. Both were filmed in Florida by director Alfredo B. Crevenna. 

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Santo Saves!

 

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SANTO VS. THE HEADHUNTERS-1969-After our hero Santo of the Silver Mask (himself) beats up four guys, he discovers one of them has an ancient knife. Meanwhile, an explorer Don Alonso Grijalva (director/co-writer Rene Cardona) tells his guests about The Jivaro Indians and their propensity for collecting human heads. He even shows them a shrunken one. His daughter Mariana (Nadia Milton) is also present. Meanwhile one the guys Santo beat up is part of the headhunter cult and he tells the leader of his troubles. With the help of a Jivaro spy aka Don Alonso's butler, they kidnap Mariana and plan to make her a sacrifice. Santo leads an expedition to save her. And besides encountering hostile locals, Santo has to fight a crocodile and a leopard. Later the luchador extraordinaire fights the biggest warrior to save Mariana's life.

Another crazy south of the border production. Director/actor Cardona also made SANTO IN THE TREASURE OF DRACULA and the comedy SANTO VS CAPULINA as well as NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES.

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Lucha Libre vs. Monsters

 

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SANTO & BLUE DEMON VS. THE MONSTERS-1970-After Santo (playing himself) watches a women's wrestling match, he watches his friend Blue Demon in tag team action. Later it's announced that a famous scientist Dr. Bruno Haulder (Carlos Ancira) who once brought a dead person back to life with a brain transplant has died. His brother refuses to answer questions about his experiments when his daughter Gloria (Hedy Blue) asks. Gloria also happens to be Santo's main squeeze. The dead doctor's body is taken from his tomb by some green faced ghouls. While driving in his snazzy sports car Blue Demon (also playing himself) sees the ghouls taking the corpse to a castle. He investigates and finds a hunchback dwarf  Waldo (Santanon) reviving the dead doctor. BD is captured and duplicated. An evil Blue Demon attacks Santo & Gloria with the green faced gang. Gloria is kidnapped and Santo is tossed down a mountain side. He survives and rescues Gloria but it's apparent Doc Haulder is alive and up to no good. With Bad Demon and Waldo's help Haulder resurrects an army of classic monsters. A vampire with big ears, a wolfman with huge fangs, the Frankenstein monster, a skinny mummy and a cartoon Cyclops. They are all kind of wimpy and Santo, Gloria and her father hold off their attack when the gang invade their house. After that fails, the vampire puts on a mask and challenges Santo to a wrestling match which he accepts. When that doesn't work out either the fake Blue Demon and the monsters storm the ring! Later the vampire makes some female vampires attack Santo, who beats up the monsters and escapes. Since they only come out at night he advises Gloria and her dad to sleep in the daytime and go to crowded places at night. At a restaurant the monsters finally overpower Santo and capture Gloria & dad. Frankenstein drives the getaway car! Santo tracks them down, frees the real Blue Demon and they destroy the lab while Haulder and Waldo cower. After freeing Gloria and dad, they put stakes in the vampires. 

What happened to the evil doc and Waldo isn't explained. 

Director Gilberto Martinez Solares much earlier had directed scenes with Lon Chaney in FACE OF THE SCREAMING WEREWOLF. Little person Santanon was later in 2 of Boris Karloff's Mexican horror films ISLE OF THE SNAKE PEOPLE and FEAR CHAMBER.

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Demon vs. Demon (Blue, that is....)

 

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NIGHT OF MURDER-aka DEATH NIGHT-1975-It seems Blue Demon is committing a series of robberies and murders. The police are baffled. However it's actually a vengeful criminal impersonating him. The real Demon has to clear his name then fight for his life in the ring. Not much happens in this dull Luchador superhero entry despite being director by “Lucha Libre” vet Rene Cordona.

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Com'on, Irv!

 

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SANTO & BLUE DEMON VS. DR. FRANKENSTEIN-1974-Someone is killing women and reanimating them. Santo teams up with Blue Demon to find out why. Behind it all is the 113 yr. old mad scientist Irving Frankenstein (Jorge Russek), grandson of the infamous doctor. Irv is doing brain transplants on the kidnapped women to try and bring his dead wife back to life (her corpse is frozen). Two female detectives help out the wrestlers. Irv has a potion that makes two old neuro-surgeons young and they agree to hepl him. He also has a zombie like strong man Golem who later puts on a mask and wrestles Santo in the ring. Miguel Delgado directed this fairly entertaining entry.

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Samson aka Santo

 

SANTO IN THE WAX MUSEUM-1963-A reporter Susan Madison (Roxana Bellini) is doing a story on the wax museum run by the mysterious Dr. Karol (Claudio Brooke), an Auschwitz survivor who also bears scars on his body from a fire. Susan is attacked by a scar faced guy and disappears. Karol comes under suspicion. He asks wrestler El Santo (in this dubbed version he's called Samson) to help clear him. Susan's sister Gloria (Norma Mora) and her fiance Richard (Reuben Rojo) believe Karol is to blame. Of course it turns out Karol is the nut responsible for all the bad things. He wants to turn everyone in the world into ugly monsters. Santo has to fight a bunch of mutated humans, who eventually turn on the doctor, to save the sisters and Richard. 

This El Santo horror adventure was later edited and dubbed into English by K. Gordon Murray and played a lot on US TV. Mad doctor portrayer Claudio Brook later was the title character in Luis Bunuel's bizarre short SIMON OF THE DESERT (earlier he was in the same director's THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL). Director Alfonso Corona Blake also made SANTO VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMEN.

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The Defender of Justice

 

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SANTO VS. THE RIDERS OF TERROR-1970-A group of lepers escape from their sanatorium. They seem more like zombies. The townsfolk want to kill them but a sheriff and a doctor say they need compassion and lead a posse to bring them back alive. Meanwhile a trouble maker and his gang of thieves plot to commit crimes and blame it on the lepers. He makes a deal with the lepers but plans to kill them after they get what they want. The sheriff (Armando Silvestre from “The Wrestling Women” series by the same director) calls in "the defender of justice" El Santo! This is a actually more of a western type movie than anything else with the silver masked one smashing the bad guys, helping the lepers and finding a cure for them. 

The print is nice and the dubbing is ridiculous but funny! Director Rene Cordona (NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APE) made several more adventures with the sainted one. The screenwriter was also a pro-wrestler (luchador in Mexico).

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Different Aztec Mummy

 

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SANTO IN THE VENGEANCE OF THE MUMMY-1971-Once again pro-wrestler/crime fighter El Santo (playing himself) helps a scientist find a hidden treasure, this one belonging to an Aztec prince. After they desecrate his tomb his scary faced mummified body comes back to life. His fight with Santo in the climax is pretty long. The secret of the mummy (who uses a bow and arrow to kill most of his victims) is revealed in a disappointing ending. Santo's real life son El Hijo del Santo plays a young boy befriended by our hero. Director Rene Cordona and screenwriter Alfredo Salazar made this one.

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Santo Returns

 

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SANTO AND DRACULA'S TREASURE-1968-Pro wrestler El Santo of the silver mask has invented some kind of time machine but scientists he invites to look at it just laugh at him. His kind of girlfriend Luisa (Noelia Noel) volunteers to try the machine and winds up in the 18th century a victim of vampirism. Her father Dr. Sepulveda (Carlos Agosti) sends for his old friend Dr. Van Roth (Fernando Mendoza). Their neighbor the greasy suave Count Alucard is actually...guess who? Count Dracula (Aldo Monti), who heads "the legion of the living dead" made up of fanged sexy priestesses. During their "initiation" he bites them (several are topless and they all eventually strip) and then stamps them with the imprint of a bat. Santo, his nerdy assistant Perico (Alberto Rojas) and Dr. Sepulveda watch the events unfold via a TV set! 

Drac turns Luisa into a vampire and reveals his vast treasure to her. Just before she's to be killed Santo brings her back. In the modern day, the trio search for the count's ring and medallion which are the keys to translating the treasure map. A man in a black hood and his gang are after the treasure too. Santo winds up in the ring wrestling a henchman ( El Lobo Negro) for possession of both items. Santo wins of course but the hooded one brings Drac back to life and he goes looking for his possessions. 

This Mexican production was directed by Rene' Cardona. It's alright but there could have been a little more atmosphere. The direction is rather routine.

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Wrestling Horror From Mexico

 

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SANTO AND THE BLUE DEMON VS. DRACULA AND THE WOLFMAN-1973-This Mexican luchador movie opens with El Santo (as himself) wrestling Angel Blanco in a seemingly empty arena with canned crowd reaction. After his match El Santo meets his girlfriend Lina (Nubia Marti) and they visit her uncle Dr. Christobal (Jorge Mondragon) and his widowed daughter Laura (Maria Eugenia San Martin) and granddaughter Rosita (Lissy Fields). The doc tells Santo that 400 years before his ancestor killed Dracula and the wolfman with a magic dagger which the doc still has in his possession. Now he's gotten a letter threatening terrible revenge on him and his family. The sainted one says he will help. Later, after the doc gives the dagger to Rosita he's kidnapped by the hunchback Eric (Wally Barron) and taken to the tomb where he hangs the doc over Dracula's remains and cuts his throat. 

The blood drips down and revives the count. Rufus the wolfman (Augustin Martinez Solares) is also revived (for some reason he's wearing a yellow silk shirt). Drac (Aldo Monti) plans to create an army of vampires and werewolves and suddenly in the next scene the cave is full of would be victims. Laura reports her dad missing to the police who seem reluctant to help so Santo enlists the aid of fellow luchador Blue Demon (first seen fighting "Renato El Hippie" in the noisy empty arena). After the wolfman in human form makes friends with Laura, Drac pays a visit to her house. When everyone is playing cards the creepy count sets his fangs on little Rosita but is forced away by the presence of the ancient dagger. Laura somehow quickly falls for the clean shaven wolf but Blue Demon has his suspicions and follows him after he leaves. 

BD spies on him and Eric talking but they spot his reflection in a mirror and lay a trap. In a warehouse the wrestlers are jumped but beat up their attackers. Lina who hid in the trunk of Santo's car calls the cops. Later Rufus tells the guys they can find Christobal someplace. Santo investigates and encounters pale zombie Christobal who tries to strangle him. Eric knocks Santo out and plans on stabbing him but Blue Demon scares him away. After Drac goes to the house to put the bite on Lina a short bald vampire bites the maid. Drac lures Lina out and BD follows her. The maid lures out Rosita. BD is captured and chained up. Santo grabs the sacred dagger and goes looking for his friends. Lina is taken to a room by two red cloaked vampire women. Drac almost bites her but Eric interrupts them. Santo breaks in but is gassed by Eric who finds the dagger and instead of killing Santo goes to Lina to ask her if she knows how to use the dagger to make Drac and wolf turn over their treasure (?). Lina can barely reply “no”when the dagger spins and stabs Eric to death. Lina finds Santo and revives him. Meanwhile Rosita meets her living dead Grandpa and now vampire Laura leads her to a cave.

Then a werewolf is forced to walk a plank over a spiky pit. He doesn't make it. Then Demon is forced to walk the plank with hands tied. Santo shows up and the duo fight the wolf gang. Then Rufus confronts BD and turns hairy. Santo saves Rosita and she and Lina get away. Santo knocks both villains into the pit and they're impaled. 

This crazy and never dull wrestling horror story from Mexico was produced and written by Abel Salazar and directed by Miguel M. Delgado.

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Santostein

 

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SANTO VS FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER-1971-The infamous doctor's daughter Freda (Gina Romand) needs Santo's blood to stay young and alive. Meanwhile she's trying to turn a man into a gorilla and building her own monster named Ursus (pro wrestler Gerardo Zepeda). She has her henchmen kidnap Norma (Anel), Santo's excitable girlfriend. Santo and Norma's sister Elsa (Sonia Fuentes) go to the rescue. They get in and out of trouble fighting Freda's inept henchmen, her beast man and the familiar looking monster with the stitches round his head. 

At one point Freda hypnotizes Norma to cut Santo's eyes out! Just when the girls seem safe they are recaptured. A showdown has the poor monster killing his creator and blowing up the whole place after getting acid thrown in his face....

Santo fights the Japanese middleweight champion in the finale and wins the title! Director Miguel Delgado made SANTO AND THE BLUE DEMON MEET DRACULA AND THE WOLFMAN the next year.

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Santo Against Mars

 

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SANTO VS. THE MARTIAN INVASION-1966-Martians hi-jack TV broadcasts in Mexico and their leader Argos (Wolf Ruvinskis) issues a warning that if Earth doesn't stop making nuclear power and can't live peacefully with one another they will be destroyed! Everyone thinks it's a joke. The Martians are dressed funny with big helmets on their heads. At a large outdoor sports arena where our hero El Santo (himself) is teaching some boys wrestling moves the aliens land a spaceship. A hench-Martian kills a bunch of spectators (including children) and he has a fight with Santo until he disappears and returns to the ship. Argos goes on TV again to announce that the reason they chose Mexico to land is that country doesn't have nuclear weapons. Yet Mexico has to suffer pointless deaths because they are already in compliance with the aliens demands? These Martians are loonies! 

Argos shows up at a professor's lab where Santo happens to be. Argos fails to convince them that his goals have merit. He and Santo have a brief fight but Argos weakens and disappears. He drops a pill he tried to shallow and later the Prof. discovers it allows the invaders to breath our air. The Martians kidnap some scientists but also random people (including kids). Some Mars maidens mesmerize some men and make two luchadors attack Santo. 

Mostly it's the Martians abducting people and the saint of lucha libre having various fights. A little too long for me. Wolf Ruvinskis came from Latvia to be a pro wrestling in Mexico and stayed on after his career ended. He created a wrestling super guy of his own, Neutron who appeared in a series of films. Veteran director Alfredo B. Crevana later made more El Santo adventures and other S.F. and horror films.

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Go Ape On Mexico!

NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES-1969-A woman named Lucy (Laura Lazareno) is a red masked pro wrestler. During a match she throws her opponent out of the ring and an ambulance has to be called. Meanwhile a doctor and his assistant go to a zoo and drug and capture a gorilla. The injured wrestler needs an operation and a specialist Dr. Krallman (Jose' Elias Moreno) is called in. The same guy who drugged the gorilla. He has a bed ridden son Julio (Augstin M. Solares) and his assistant Goyo (Carlos Lopez Moctezuma) calls him “master”so you know he's up to no good. When Krallman is told his son’s days are numbered he decides to transplant the gorilla’s heart into Julio’s body and then give him the gorilla's blood. It’s a bloody operation. 

Lucy’s policeman/boyfriend Martinez (Armando Silvestre) and his force search for the missing gorilla. After Martinez has to stand Lucy up to meet with his boss, Julio turns into an ape man, escapes and kills a woman. He's recapture and the doc decides that maybe a gorilla's heart wasn't such a good idea (gee..ya think?). It's better if they get a new living human heart and put it in Julio. The reluctant donor is the comatose wrestler Lucy fought! While the duo goes to get their “donor”, Julio the ape man escapes again. He tears out a guy’s throat while his girlfriend runs away conveniently tearing the top of her dress off. He rapes the woman (not shown), stabs a good Samaritan and plucks a passerby’s eye out! Then he’s recaptured. The doc who besides being nuts is also head of the hospital reprimands his staff for losing their patient and the toady doctors all agree to a cover-up. Meanwhile through fingerprints, Martinez proposes that the killer isn't a gorilla but some kind of man beast hybrid (good guess!). His boss thinks he has been watching too many “movies of horror”. Later Julio changes back into man but while the doc is out he becomes the man beast again and kills Goyo. Doc confronts his son but trips and hits his head. 

Julio goes prowling and kills a policeman (he scalps him) and then chases Lucy into a park. Martinez goes after them but so does the doc. Julio and Martinez fight and Julio turns into his old self. They are both taken to a hospital where Julio once again transforms and kills a doctor and a nurse. He then grabs a sick little girl and heads for the roof. Martinez and dad follow and the doc convinces sonny to give up the child. He/it is then fatally shot by the cops below. Dad loses his mind. 

Mindlessly bloody sleaze with real gory footage of open heart surgery. Mad scientist portrayer Jose' Elias Moreno had the lead as jolly old St. Nick in the Mexican made SANTA CLAUS in 1959!, which was directed by BLOODY APES director Rene Cordona who had a prolific career as a director and actor in Mexico (and a son who became a director).

Mexican Wrestling Mummies

THE MUMMIES OF GUANAJUATO-1972-After a too long travelogue intro, Panguino, a little person guide shows a group a bunch of mummies. One called Satan is dressed like a Mexican luchador. Panguino tells the story of how the original El Santo beat Satan in a wrestling match and the heel swore vengeance. After the group leaves Panguino thinks he sees Satan's hand move and he faints. He then has a dream the mummies are attacking him. After the caretaker wakes him up, he tells his friends Lina and Alicia about the incident. They don't believe him so the trio go back to the tomb and convince the caretaker to let them in. When they get to the mummy display they find Satan missing! They hightail it to a wrestling arena where famous luchadors Blue Demon and Mil Mascaras are wrestling. Fortunately Lina is Mil's girlfriend and they all discuss what happened. Mil and Panguino go to investigate and Blue Demon is knocked out by Satan who remembers his fight with Santo (Satan isn't a mummy apparently and wears a red mask). Satan kills a night watchman (the director) and an old man. Two lovebirds witness the last event but the police don't believe them. After Satan kills Panguino, Lina and Alicia, along with Demon's adopted son Julito stay at Mil's house. Blue Demon is once again knocked out by Satan who steals BD's wrestling gear and gives it to his mummy pal who kills two people with the real wrestler getting the blame. Two mummies break into Mil's house and kill Alicia and kidnap Lina.

While Mil and Demon are out looking for mummies, Julito is kidnapped (he was hiding in the trunk of their car). El Santo and his manager happen to stop in Guanajuato and are attacked by mummies. They fend them off but the mummies terrorize and kill the town's populace. Santo tries to fight the mummy horde single handedly but has little success so he and his manager drive away! He meets up with Mil and Demon and they take on the mummies not too successfully until Mil gets some flame guns from Santo's car and kills them.

There's lots of plot holes and long stretches of talk. This color triple hero adventure (which most fans think is the best) could have been better.

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El Santo Save Us!

EL SANTO VS. EL ESTRANGLADOR (THE STRANGLER)-1965-The famous luchador El Santo (himself) is called in when a scarred strangler kills show girls at a club. Sub-plots include a young singing couple investigating the murders, a show girl who wants her lover to kill a rival and Santo adopting a son. After the iconic Mexican grappler foils one of the strangler's crimes, he sends a hit man to do in the wrestler but that fails. Later the show girl's lover wrestles Santo but he's accidentally shot and killed by the strangler (he was trying to kill Santo). Eventually it's revealed the strangler is masquerading as a woman. He's shot by the police while trying to escape. 

Beware! There are a lot of musical numbers and our hero only shows up 20 minutes into the film! Thank you director Rene' Cardona!

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Enter: Blue Demon

THE BLUE DEMON-1965-In his very first adventure the Mexican luchador Blue Demon (playing himself) battles a mad scientist who turns men into werewolves. He and Dr. Gruber (Mario Orea,who looks kind of like a mini Orson Welles) prowl around a smoky forest while a little guy in his undershirt shadows them. The duo are attacked by a wolf man but BD vanquishes him and he turns back into a human. The undershirt guy isn't happy and leaves. The pair then  investigate a eerie castle but don't seem to find anything. 

Later the doctor has meeting with some people including his daughter Marina (Rosa Maria Vasquez) and her boyfriend Prof. Carral (Jaime Fernandez). After some wrestling we learn that Carral is a mad scientist and the undershirt guy is his henchman. He has formula that turns men into werewolves. He demonstrates this at a wrestling match where he and Marina watch calmly as BD wins his match but has to fight again when his opponent turns into a werewolf! Later on after undershirt guy has kidnapped and imprisoned Dr. Gruber, Carral turns himself into a werewolf and fights BD (twice), kidnaps Marina and dies after being shot. Despite causing so much trouble Marina breaks down and cries over his corpse. BD seems to have had enough and wanders into the woods. 

The SFX are pretty laughable and there's long stretches of talk but it still manages to be entertaining. The funniest part is when a small search party lead by Marina finds the werewolf. He pummels one guy and grabs Marina and the others in the party simply run away!

Lead villain Fernandez was the half brother of the famous Mexican director “El Indio” Fernandez. Director Chano Urueta made the next installment BLUE DEMON VS. THE SATANIC SOCIETY which featured some of the same supporting cast. Original title: El Demonito Azul

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Wrestling Women

LAS LUCHADORAS VS. EL ROBOT ASESINO-WRESTLING WOMEN VS. THE ROBOT ASSASSIN-1969- ln the first Wrestling Woman  series to be filmed in color female Luchador Gaby (Regina Torne'), her wrestler friend Gemma (Malu Reyes), her cop boyfriend Arturo (Joaquin Cordero, the monster in ORLAK, THE HELL OF FRANKENSTEIN) and his assistant battle a mad scientist Dr. Orlac (Carlos Agosti; INVASION OF THE VAMPIRES) bend on ruling the world by turning everyone into "human robots". He kidnaps many famous scientists to help in his plan dispatching a tall metallic robot (who wears a trench coat and wide rimmed hat & sunglasses) to get them. He also has a scarred man-beast in a cage in the basement (what successful mad scientist doesn't?). For some reason a nurse opens up the cage to let him out, turns her back and it kills her. The doc then uses a whip on the monster as punishment. 

Gaby has several matches in the ring and several encounters with robot (one of the kidnapped scientists is her relative) and she and her companions get beat up. Two captured scientists do create a device that allows Olac to control people (he has a real over the top maniacal laugh) but Gaby and her group break in, destroy the robot and rescue the scientists and Gaby's friend who was also "robotized". The mad doc somehow escapes with the basement beast (totally forgotten about till now). Later when it seems things have returned to normal Olac sends his beast man to kidnap a woman who  he turns into a masked human robot wrestler. She beats every opponent (with Olac controlling her from the stands) to get a revenge match with Gaby. Though she/it nearly kills Gaby the murderous plot is revealed and the vicious robo wrestler falls to her death. Olac is shot by the police. Both bodies wind up in the wrestling ring. 

Screenwriter Alfredo Salazar and directed Rene Cordona made many horror and wrestling related adventures. 

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