Santo el enmascarado de plata y Blue Demon contra los monstruos

I have been meaning to give an El Santo movie a watch for a long time and now that I have finally done so I'm regretting not having done it sooner, this movie was awesome.

Any true lover of professional wrestling knows some history of Lucha Libre (Mexican wrestling) and the super-stardom some wrestlers had that transcended the business into the real of film. El Santo and The Blue Demon were two of it's biggest stars.

These Luchadors were superheroes in their own right and in tradition of American superhero things like the Batman TV series this movie was as cheesy as hell, but the right kind of cheesy.

Any wrestling fan, or even fans of B movies or cheesy superhero stuff, should watch this and the many other titles to these guys names. For the rest of you, you have no idea what you are missing.

Into the world of Mexican wrestler movies we go. In this one a mad scientist, seeking revenge on his brother and sister-in-law, is resurrected from the dead by Waldo, his faithful servant who also happens to be a hunchback dwarf. Using his gang of zombie minions, he enlists the services of a wolfman, Frankenstein, a male and female vampire, a mummy and a cyclops. But that's not all because there are wrestlers as well - Blue Demon and Santo - it doesn't matter if they are in the ring, in the office or out driving their cars, they go about everywhere wearing their wrestler masks (well, of course they do). Anyway, Blue Demon is captured by the mad scientist and a replica of him is sent out to fight the hero, Santo along with the gaggle of monster villains. This one is chock full of ridiculousness from start to finish but it is top quality nonsense which never fails to entertain. There are lots of fights (it's a wrestler movie after all) and plenty of monster action. I seem to remember there was even a bossa nova song and dance routine thrown in as well. Great fun basically.

This is probably the lamest installment in the "Santo" series, but that doesn't mean it isn't fun! Once again, the good and noble Santo must battle mad scientists, monsters and evil masterminds before their terrible plans to take over the world come to fruition! There's a mummy, a werewolf, a vampire and his seductive assistant, a hunchbacked midget, a really stupid looking cyclops and a pretty blond girlfriend for our hero to save from them all. There's even an evil clone of the Blue Demon! It's almost sacrilege to watch these two loyal buddies kick the crap out of each other!!! The plot is threadbare, the make-up effects are AWFUL, but who cares? It's all about Santo giving the smackdown to some bad guys, both in and out of the wrestling ring. There's no gore, no nudity or sex, just lots and lots of silly butt-kicking fun. In my opinion, there's no such thing as a BAD Santo movie. There's just cheesy, cheesier and cheesiest. This is the cheesiest, but that's what makes it great. Santo fans should NOT miss this one.

In this story, our hero Santo, called "Sampson" in English, must wrestle against an array of monsters:

(1) Frankenstein's Monster, complete with neck bolts (2) The Wolfman (3) Dracula, escorted by fanged female helpers (4) The Creature from the Black Lagoon (5) The Mummy

The monsters are controlled by a mad scientist (what else?), whose laboratory is located in an old castle. As expected, the scientist is rotten to the core and has all kinds of evil schemes in the works. The monsters and laboratory look great - all classic horror movie stuff!

Poor Santo is way outnumbered. Fortunately, the monsters can only come out at night (even though it often looks like daytime, at least to this viewer).

How can Santo defeat the monsters and stop the scientist?? You will have to watch the movie to find out!

Great fun.

This blissfully bonkers, far from formulaic Santo Luchador adventure erupts luridly across the shock- scintillated screen like some phantasmagorical psychotronic fever dream brought to hyperbolic life! The creature feature to end ALL creature features has the indomitable silver masked champion of the underdog dangerously embroiled in one of his most monstrously bizarre mysteries!

After the dead professor, Halder (Carlos Ancira) returns to life via technologies Satanic, he proceeds to maniacally perpetrate a singularly strange reign of monster-infested terror that almost proves too much for, Santo and his loyal criminal crushing compatriot, Blue Demon to handle! Like a lurid horror comic brought to screaming life,'Santo el enmascarado de plata y Blue Demon contra los monstruos' boisterously delivers all the slam bang entertainment one expects, along with an electrifying surge of high-voltaged monster mashing mayhem! The garish sets, eye-boggling make-up, exquisite implausibility, and the dynamic drop-kicking do-gooders rowdy fighting prowess excitingly guarantees another cinematic squall of exemplary Blue Demon & Santo B-movie entertainment!