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Santo and Blue Demon vs. the Monsters

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Santo and Blue Demon vs. the Monsters – original title: Santo y Blue Demon contra los Monstruos – is a 1969 Mexican action horror movie directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares from a screenplay by Rafael García Travesi and Jesús Sotomayor Martínez for Sotomayor productions.

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The film stars masked wrestlers Santo and Blue Demon, plus Jorge Rado, Carlos Ancira, Raúl Martínez Solares, Hedi Blue, Vicente Lara, Manuel Leal, Gerardo Zepeda, David Alvizu, Fernando Rosales.

Plot teaser:

To foil his plan for world domination, wrestling superheroes Santo and Blue Demon battle the mad Dr. Halder and his army of reanimated monsters: The Vampire, The Female Vampire, Franquestain, The Cyclops, The Wolfman, The Mummy and zombie thugs…

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Reviews:

” …probably the grooviest of the bunch. A mad doctor revives a ton of horror movie monsters (wait, so they’re monsters AND undead?) and brainwashes them to do his bidding. There’s a spanking good sequence at the start of the flick that introduces each monster, one by one …

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If you’re a fan of B-movie grandeur, do yourself a favor and check this bad boy out.” Analog Medium

“Despite the budget woes and quality issues, Santo and Blue Demon vs the Monsters still ends up being a fun flick, and is among the Santo films you should see first just to get your toes wet.

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If you can handle Santo and Blue Demon punching their way through a castle filled with people in bad masks, you are ready to expand your journey.” TarsTarkas.net

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“Still, despite all obstacles, Santo y Blue Demon contra los Monstruos staunchly resists the temptation to laugh at itself, and that is what really sells it. One wink, one moment of intentional camp, and it would have become unbearable, but, instead, every actor who looked upon those pitifully ridiculous monsters reacted to them as if they were the gravest threat ever faced by mankind. And bless them for it.” Teleport City

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Sampson vs. the Vampire Women

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Santo vs. las Mujeres Vampiro is a 1962 Mexican horror film directed by Alfonso Corona Blake (The World of the Vampires; Samson in the Wax Museum) from a screenplay co-written with Rafael García Travesi, Antonio Orellana and Fernando Osés. K. Gordon Murray supervised the American re-edited version, Samson vs. the Vampire Women.

The film stars Santo, Lorena Velázquez, Jaime Fernández, María Duval, Augusto Benedico and Ofelia Montesco.

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Plot teaser:

Vampire women are awakened by their leader, The Evil One, in order to find him a bride. Diana, a local professor’s daughter (María Duval) is kidnapped and so he enlists masked wrestler Santo to rescue her…

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Reviews:

‘The main problem is that Santo and the vampire film are odd cousins. Santo is a very physical character based around his brute strength and wrestling skill, while the vampire is supernatural in nature. When the two meet, his immediate response is to engage the male vampire slaves in wrestling matches, which only serves to reduce the vampire’s customary aura of mystery to a very mundane level.’ Moria

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‘There’s the usual odd dubbing (one of Santo’s opponents talks like Nick Adams), but the special effects (the customary rubber bats notwithstanding) are pretty good, including vampires burning up in flames at the sight of a giant cross or the morning sunlight, or beautiful faces seen as the crusty, aged horrors that they really are when reflected in a mirror. One of the film’s most memorable moments has Santo unmasking his karate-chopping wrestling competitor to reveal a wolf-like kisser!’ George R. Reis, DVD Drive-In

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‘Some of the concepts in the film go from the sublime to the ridiculous. We have a police inspector who, after the first kidnap attempt, believes in vampires (and thus releases the unfortunate cop he had locked up earlier) … We have a Professor who contacts Samson by video phone – oddly sci-fi and very out of place.’ Taliesen Meets the Vampires

 

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Cast:

  • Santo [Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta] as Santo/Sampson
  • Lorena Velázquez as Thorina, queen of the vampires
  • María Duval as Diana Orlof
  • Jaime Fernández as Inspector Carlos
  • Augusto Benedico as Professor Orlof
  • Xavier Loyá as Jorge – Diana’s fiance
  • Ofelia Montesco as Tandra, vampire priestess
  • Fernando Osés as Vampire
  • Guillermo Hernández as Vampire
  • Nathanael León as Vampire
  • Ricardo Adalid as Detective at Party

Choice dialogue:

“Follow me, we’ll search for human blood!”

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Caltiki – The Immortal Monster

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‘Terror amok! Hungry for the flesh of the world!’

Caltiki – The Immortal Monster – original title: Caltiki – il mostro immortale – is a 1959 Italian science fiction horror film directed by Riccardo Freda and [uncredited] Mario Bava from a screenplay by Filippo Sanjust. It was distributed in the US by Allied Artists.

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Plot teaser:

A team of archaeologists investigating Mayan ruins come across a blob-like monster. They manage to destroy it with fire while keeping a sample of the monster but not without loss of life.

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Meanwhile, a comet is due to pass close to Earth, the same comet which passed near the Earth at the time the Mayan civilisation mysteriously collapsed…

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Reviews:

‘Directors Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava performed a perfunctory job on this Quatermass rip-off, although it’s mildly interesting as an indicator for some future key elements of Italian genre filmmaking: there’s found footage and idle racism (both a mainstay of mondo movies), overt greed, lust and a focus on gruesomeness.

Otherwise, as a late 1950s sci-fi horror film, it lacks narrative drive and lead actor John Merivale is particularly poor. Thankfully, once the Blob-like monster appears things perk up. But then the film descends into dreary military defence scenes accompanied by dialogue as bad as any serial from the 1940s.’ Adrian J Smith, Horrorpedia

‘The film’s in black and white, so don’t expect the kind of hallucinatory color riot that became Bava’s calling card in the 60’s, but Caltiki is far away indeed from the simplistic point-and-shoot sensibility of most contemporary Hollywood monster movies. Not even Bava can make a soggy canvas bag look scary, but it’s obvious that he tried his damnedest.’ 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting

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Choice dialogue:

“You’re a sensitive woman. You need warmth. And care.”

Wikipedia | IMDb | Related: The Blob


Las Vampiras (“The Female Vampires”)

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Las Vampiras (translation: “The Female Vampires”) is a 1968 Mexican masked wrestler horror movie directed by Federico Curiel (The Curse of Nostradamus; The Empire of Dracula; The Mummies of Guanajuato) from a screenplay co-written with Adolfo Torres Portillo (Hellish Spiders; Diabolical Pact).

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The film stars John Carradine (Autopsy of a Ghost; BigfootVampire Hookers), Pedro Armendáriz Jr.Mil Máscaras, María Duval, Marta Romero, Maura Monti, Dagoberto Rodríguez, Vianey Lárraga, Elsa Maria, Manuel Garay, Rossy Ceballos, Sara Benítez and Felipe del Castillo.

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Plot teaser:

A masked wrestler (Mil Máscaras) tries to break up a coven of female vampires, led by Branus, king of the vampires (Carradine). Meanwhile, the latter has been caged by his own female followers…

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Reviews:

“In his role as Las Vampiras’ vampire king, Carradine leaves teeth marks not only on most of the cast members, but also every inch of the scenery.  And, when he doesn’t look just plain confused, he appears to be having a great time doing it.  If all his mugging, gnashing of teeth and bellowing (in dubbed Spanish, of course) were Las Vampiras’ only attraction, that would be enough, but, happily, the film also delivers pretty much everything else you’d want from one of these movies.” Todd Stadtman, The Lucha Diaries

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” … like some half-assed attempt to remake Santo vs. the Vampire Women with none of the style, charm, or fun of that production. Much of the film’s 90 minute running time consists of a half-dozen or so caped dance school floozies wrapped up in vomit-green nylon leggings running around in circles while waving their arms about. How the movie gets to this dour point I’ve done my best to purge from my consciousness.” Silver Emulsion Film Reviews

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Santo vs. Frankestein’s Daughter

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Santo vs. Frankestein’s Daughter – original title: Santo vs. la hija de Frankestein – is a 1971 (released 1972) Mexican wrestling-horror film directed by Miguel M. Delgado (Mysteries of Black Magic; Santo and Blue Demon vs. Dracula and the Wolfman); Vengeance of the Crying Woman) from a screenply by Fernando Osés (Santo vs. the ZombiesEl barón Brakola; The Beasts of Terror).

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Cast: 

El Santo, Gina Romand, Anel, Roberto Cañedo, Sonia Fuentes, Carlos Agosti, Gerardo Zepeda, Carlos Suárez, Carol Bravo.

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Plot teaser:

Dr. Freda Frankestein (Gina Romand) and her assistant, Dr. Yanco (Roberto Canedo), are about to to bring one of their experiments to life. She intends to use a monster named Ursus to do her evil bidding. Using a youth serum to retain their vitality, the doctors set their sights upon none other than El Santo. They need his super human blood to regenerate a stronger youth serum. They kidnap Santo’s god-daughter, Norma and lure the masked wrestler into Dr. Frankestein’s lab where he is captured and enslaved…

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Reviews:

“1971’s Santo vs. la hija de Frankestein (note the spelling), was a slick Eastmancolor entry, with atmospheric dungeon sets, a fog-bound cemetery, and a gogo-age lab. The film’s greatest asset is Cuban-born actress Gina Romand, who steals the picture as the commanding Freda, Frankenstein’s daughter, cooking up ugly monsters and bossing her muscle-bound henchmen around.” Frankensteinia

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“The performances from all concerned are spirited and the script gives the larger than life characters plenty of choice dialogue to chew on. The editing is fast-paced especially during the frequent action sequences with a variety of camera angles employed, something which is often lacking in the cheaper entries in the series. The laboratory equipment appears on loan from an Al Adamson flick and the old age make-ups are of the crispy paper-mache variety but they all add to the comic book flavour.” The Deuce

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” … goofy, kitschy fun. Santo makes for a great do-gooder hero; he refers to his tormentor as ma’am and literally gives the turtleneck off his back to Ursus to use as a tourniquet. The dialogue is wonderfully campy (“Our love has broken the chains of your hypnotic force!”) and save for some mild gore, the film has the feel of an old-fashioned kiddie Saturday matinee.” Really Awful Movies

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Km 31: Part II

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Km 31: Part II – original title: Km. 31 Sin Retornois a 2015 Mexican horror film directed by Rigoberto Castañeda and a sequel to the 2006 film Km. 31. It stars Carlos Aragon, Adrià Collado, Odin Ayala and Ileana Fox.

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The film stars Carlos Aragon as Ugalde, the detective who led the investigation into a series of mysterious deaths on a benighted stretch of road surrounded by woodland. Aragon back on the beat, after being disgraced and even incarcerated for failing to solve the original case, investigating a series of child abductions, KM 31: Part II will also feature Ileana Fox, who awoke from a coma at the end of the original, possessed by an evil spirit. Here, she will embody La Llorona, a mother in Mexican myths who lost her own child.

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Beaks: The Movie aka Evil Birds

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Beaks: The Movie – Spanish: El ataque de los pájaros – is a 1987 Mexican-Spanish horror movie written, produced and directed by René Cardona Jr. (Night of a 1000 Cats; TintoreraGuyana: Crime of the Century). It is also known as Beaks: The Birds 2Birds of Prey and Evil Birds. The synthesizer score is by Stelvio Cipriani.

Cast:

Michelle Johnson (Werewolf  TV series; Waxwork; Dr. Giggles), Christopher Atkins (Mortuary Academy; Dracula Rising; Stageghost), Sonia Infante (Doctor of Doom; Museum of Horror), Salvador Pineda, Gabriele Tinti (Lisa and the Devil; Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals; Creepers), Aldo Sambrell (Monstroid; Killer Barbys vs. Dracula; Flesh for the Beast), Nené Morales, Manuel Pereyro, Cintia Lodetti, Carole James, May Heatherly.

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Plot teaser:

Vanessa, a television reporter covering a story about a farmer attacked by his chickens, discovers that this is not an isolated incident. Travelling to Spain with her henchman, (also cameraman and boyfriend) Peter, the two discover the survivors of a town wiped out by the birds thirty years ago.

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Meanwhile, attacks continue as a child’s birthday party ends in tragedy and doves devour a poultry farmer and his wife. Vanessa soon comes to the conclusion that the birds are organizing themselves against the ecological ravages of man but time is running out as thousands of birds of all types launch attack for revenge against a train Vanessa is travelling on…

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Reviews:

“Making its contemporary in revenge of nature misfires Slugs seem sensible in comparison, you get lines like Atkins’ exclamation “These birds really know what they’re doing!”, constant distractions from the two leads to concentrate on Neilson’s granddaughter’s birthday party and a bickering family at the beach, and all the fake blood and slow motion you could want from an impoverished production punching considerably above its weight. So yes, it was garbage, but at least you could get a few cheap laughs from its ineptitude.” Graeme Clark, The Spinning Image

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Birds of Prey is a z-grade rip-off where pigeons rip people’s eyes out and doves menacingly organise themselves to destroy man. Clearly the blame lies squarely at the feet of the director: Hitchcock turned birds into a terrifying force of destruction that we’d never really considered a threat before. Here, Cardona Jr (who also brought us the equally-as-dire Jaws rip-off Tintorera) just makes them look dim-witted and laughable.” Popcorn Pictures

Some of the attack sequences are well done but writer-director-producer Rene Cardona Jr. lines his cage at every opportunity, relying on clichés.” John Stanley, Creature Features

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Vacations of Terror

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Vacaciones de terror – English translation: “Vacations of Terror” – is a 1989 Mexican horror film directed by René Cardona III (who also appears as Al Coster) from a screenplay by Carlos Valdemar, based on a story Cardona co-wrote with producer Santiago Galindo.

René Cardona III is the son of veteran Mexican filmmakers René Cardona (Night of the Bloody Apes; Invasion of Death) and René Cardona Jr (Night of a 1000 CatsGuyana: Crime of the CenturyBeaks: The Movie). Clearly, a taste for cinematic schlock runs in the family. Meanwhile, Vacaciones de terror presumably made muchos pesos because a sequel was made in 1991.

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Cast:

Pedro Fernández, Julio Alemán, Gabriela Hassel, Nuria Bages, Carlos East.

Plot:

An evil witch gets burned at the stake, but not before vowing to return and get her revenge.

A hundred years later, a family arrive to spend their vacation at a summer home located in the same immediate countryside area where the witch was killed.

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Trouble ensues when little girl daughter Gaby finds an ugly doll that’s possessed by the lethal spirit of the malevolent witch…

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Reviews:

” … doesn’t do much other than unleash a bag of hoary and outdated haunted house tricks onto the audience. The only thing they seem to have left out from your typical 1930s old dark house flick was eyes on a painting moving but they more than make up for that with a hundred odd close-up shots of the doll’s eyes shifting from left to right.” The Bloody Pit of Horror

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Filming locations:

Mexico City; Valle de Bravo, Estado de México

Trailer:

IMDb | Related: Burn, Witch, Burn! Witchfinders on the Screen – article by David Flint

We are grateful for the plot summary by Woodanders and to Mierdoteca Nacional for bringing this film to our attention.



Asesinos de Otros Mundos (“Killers from Other Worlds”, 1971)

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Asesinos de Otros Mundos aka Santo Contra Los Asesinos de Otros Mundos is a 1971 Mexican action sci-fi horror film directed by Rubén Galindo (Santo vs. the She-Wolves). The title translates as “Killers from Other Worlds”.

Cast:

Santo, Juan Gallardo, Sasha Montenegro, Carlos Agosti, Marco Antonio Campos, Carlos Suarez.

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Plot:

Four horrifying murders – in which the victims are smothered to death by a shape-shifting blob – compel the authorities to seek help from the only person capable of stopping the homicidal rampage: Santo!

The culprit is the evil Malkosh, an old enemy of justice, who demands an enormous ransom to end the bloodshed. His secret weapon is a hair-raising blob creature that is capable of swallowing a man whole. Dr. Bernstein is the only one able to defeat it, but he has been abducted, along with his daughter, by Boris Licur, an even more dastardly criminal.

“The Man with the Silver Mask” has little time to lose before he can prevent this madman from getting control of the monster—and the world!

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Reviews:

“Think of The Creeping Terror. Now think of The Creeping Terror, but with a masked wrestler beating up bad guys added to it. See? It’s a clear case of the perfect made perfect-er.” Die, Danger, Die, Die, Kill!

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“This entry in the long running Santo series is one of the cheapest looking of the lot. Working from the flimsiest of scripts, it makes absolutely no sense in its mixture of monsters and the Mob … Endearingly awful, the bargain bin blob beast save the day, usurping the star power of the Silver masked Saint.” Cool Ass Cinema

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“This is not really a bad film, except for its notorious “monster,” which literally appears to be 3-4 guys underneath a greasy tarpaulin. Fans of Monty Python‘s Flying Circus might remember the “Giant Blancmange from Outer Space” episode and the film The Creeping Terror, but both of these have great monsters compared to Asesinos … The production values–aside from the blob–aren’t too bad, but everything is overshadowed by the goofy monster.” D. Walt, University of Maryland

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