Chanoc y el hijo del Santo contra los Vampiros Asesinos (1983)
Just over a year after his retirement in late January 1984, Santo removed his mask just enough to expose his face on national television. This was the only time that he had shown his face in public and is considered him saying goodbye to the public, as he died only one week later. He was […]
La Sombra del Murciélago (1968)
Federico Curiel was a maniac and I mean that in the very best of ways. He wrote tons of great movies like El Baron del Terror, as well as directing stuff like the Nostradamus vampire movies, lucha films with Neutrón, Blue Demon and Santo, Westerns such as Super Colt 38 and so much more. He’s also the man […]
Girl Gang/Pin-Down Girl (1954)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We covered Pin-Down Girl under its other title, Racket Girls, earlier this year. Thanks to this Kino Lorber re-release of Something Weird’s The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture imprint, we’re watching it again. Girl Gang is really about Joe (Timothy Farrell), who leads the titular group of young ladies. He hooks them on drugs, then gets […]
Superzan y el Niño del Espacio (1973)
Superzan has always been closer to a superhero than a luchador and sadly, this film doesn’t make me like the character any more than I already had — which was not much. The Space Child of the title is Silio, a gold-skinned boy from the planet Aramina in the Andromeda galaxy. His goal is to […]
Operation 67 (1967)
If I had to pick two Mexican stars to be secret agents, it would be Santo and Jorge Rivera, who we all know as Mace from Fulci’s insane ode to fog Conquest. Yes, the Eurospy craze stuck around a little but longer in Mexico and if Santo gets to be a spy, so be it. The […]
Snake Eyes (2021)
Have I ever told you how much I love G.I. Joe? If you know me in person, the answer is probably yes. In addition to an entire room of our home being devoted to movies, there’s an entire room for my collection. Did you know that they made an aircraft carrier that’s bigger than your coffee […]
Blue Demon contra Cerebros Infernales (1968)
If you have an issue with seeing brains outside of skulls, perhaps this is a movie to avoid, as it seems like the main story thrust of this is to show brains as often as possible, but there’s also plenty of neon-hued labs, swinging go-go dance numbers, Blue Demon wrestling matches, future science that never […]
Angel (2018)
Fae is a sex worker. Thierry is a world-famous cyclist. During his vacation in Senegal, he quickly falls for her until he begins to act strangely as if he were on drugs. After going their separate ways, she learns the next morning that he has died and that she is arrested as a suspect. This […]
Mil Mascaras contra Las Vampires (1968)
Back in Drive-In Asylum #8, I wrote about “John Carradine vs. Mil Mascaras” and this movie is the film where it happens. Carradine had sold everything he owned to start a traveling Shakespeare actor’s company and when it folded, he was penniless, which led to the kind of roles that we love him in. In fact, […]
Mil Máscaras (1969)
Mil Máscaras means Thousand Masks and the man behind those multiple faces became one of the most recognizable wrestlers in the entire world as well as the star of twenty movies. The character of Mil Mascaras was announced before he even wrestled in the ring, with the character created by “El Rey Midas de la […]
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