Runtime: 83 minutes
Directed by: Gilberto Martinez Solares
Starring: Santo, Blue Panther (duh), Ivan J. Rado, Carlos Ancira, Hedi Blue
From: Cinematografica Sotomayor
Never let a zombie drive your car... Frankenstein's monster is OK, though.
As I did last fall, it only seemed right to experience an El Santo creature feature movie and Lord are there many creatures here: a mummy, Frankenstein's monster, a wolfman, a male vampire, two vampire women, a hunchbacked dwarf, zombies, a “cyclops” that was their version of The Creature from the Black Lagoon, a never-explained creature best described as a sentient walking stone statue about 4 feet high w/ an oversized exposed human brain... I am not kidding about the last thing. Even compared to the others I've seen from the masked man, this had its baffling moments, is incredibly sloppy and at one point could be compared to an Ed Wood production. That said, this was still a campy good time.
Simply, Santo and Blue Demon (another legendary lucha libre wrestler who also has a famous wrestling son that I actually saw wrestle live once a long time ago) must stop an evil scientist revived by the aforementioned dwarf and he wants to take over the world. Of course Santo goes out with the scientist's niece so that's a big reason why he's roped into this. After the monsters are shown raising hell-there's also some filler in what is an 83 minute long movie-there is no shortage of Santo fight scenes and goofy moments. I mean, Frankenstein's monster actually drives a car at one point-even funnier than Michael Myers doing so in the 5th Halloween-and for some reason has facial hair.
This has an easygoing score which may not fit the movie yet it's dope as hell... Santo makes out with his girl in an old Mercedes-Benz convertible while keeping his mask on... and an opening credits sequence where all the monsters appear in a field as they are introduced to the audience. It is B-movie cheese which was appealing to my tastes even with its flaws.
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