Killer Dolls

 

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MUNECOS INFERNALES-1961-Two medical doctors Armando (Ramon Gay) and Karina (Elvira Quintana) are invited to dinner by 4 men (and their families) who have recently returned from Haiti. While there not only did they see a forbidden ceremony but one of the eggheads stole a sacred idol for his personal collection. During a power outage he dies mysteriously. Later we learn a revenge seeking voodoo priest Zandor (Quintin Bulnes) is making scary miniature dolls of the victims (dwarf actors or kids in scary masks) sending them to do more killing. 

After completion of their tasks, he calls them back with a flute. Zandor also has a zombie servant who delivers the dolls to unsuspecting victims. The dolls are creepy but they are not all just mindless killers. At one point a doll wants to kill a child but he's stopped by a companion. 

Directed by Benito Alazraki (SANTO VS. THE ZOMBIES (1962) and written by Alfredo Salazar (DOCTOR OF DOOM (1963)). K. Gordon Murray presented it in the US under the title “Attack of the Doll People”.

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El Santo and Zombies

 

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EL SANTO VS THE ZOMBIES (aka INVASION OF THE ZOMBIES)-1962-In pro wrestler Santo's third picture as a grappling movie star and the first to be filmed in Mexico (the first 2 were filmed in Cuba), "The Saint" helps the police fight men turned into mindless zombies by a hooded mad scientist. Three detectives Isabel (Irman Serrano), Sanmartin (Armando Silvestre) & Rodriguez (Jaime Hernadez) meet Gloria Sandoval (Lorena Velazquez; SHIP OF MONSTERS) who says her scientist father is missing. After a  jewel robbery (in which they are shot but not killed) the zombies are sent by their boss to an orphanage to kidnap kids to use in his experiments! Fortunately “the sainted one” arrives in time to thwart their plans. (He seems to have a secret HQ where he can observe what both the police and the zombie maker are doing).

Santo gets beat up but manages to get one of the crowbar like weapons (that shoots fire) and give it to the police to examine. Then Santo saves Isabel from a zombie attack. The mad scientist decides to do away with Santo in the ring (where else?). He has Santo's challenger kidnapped and turned him into a zombie to wrestle our hero. They fight but the zombie goes haywire and begins to smoke. Later Gloria is kidnapped but El saves the day. 

This is a pretty cheap production and uses El Santo himself very sparingly. It seems to be director Benito Alazraki's only entry into the Santo series. Earlier he made the horror-comedy FRANKENSTEIN, EL VAMPIRO Y CAMPANIA.

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