Santo contra los Jinetes del Terror (1970)
Santo vs. the Riders of Terror is a straight-up western except, you know, Santo is in it. It concerns a gang of lepers that has escaped an insane asylum and start to rob farms and attack people. Now, they’ve joined a gang of outlaws and that’s when the lawman Darío calls on the man in […]
Santo vs. the Evil Brain (1958)
Five years before this movie was released, wrestler and actor Fernando Osés asked Santo to be in a movie with him. Santo had already turned down Rene Cardona’s El Enmascarado de Plata as he wanted to strictly be a wrestler and thought that the films would fail. Somehow, Oses was able to get the Mexican wrestling […]
Spiral (2021)
Last year, I watched every Saw film in a day or two and it’s not an experience that I would wish on anyone. Well, seeing as how this had the lofty title of Spiral: From the Book of Saw and was directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, who also was behind Saw II, Saw III and Saw IV, I was […]
Vuelven los Campeones Justicieros (1972)
The five “Champions of Justice” in this film are Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, Rayo de Jalisco, Fantasma Blanco and Avispon Escarlata. Sure, we’ve seen Blue and Mil before, but let’s get you up to speed on a few of the others. Rayo de Jalisco started wrestling in 1950 but didn’t find success — and the […]
Neutrón contra el Dr. Caronte (1963)
For some reason, the mongoose to the cobra that is the mad scientist is the lucha libre hero. Across several other films, Neutrón and Dr. Caronte have fought to the death. Literally, I’ve seen Caronte let slip this mortal coil several times in this movie alone. Wolf Ruvinskis plays our hero and he was known […]
Four Frightened People (1934)
Arnold Ainger (Herbert Marshall, who lost a leg during World War I yet became one of the biggest leading men of Hollywood; he was also the star of the radio drama The Man Called X), Mrs. Mardick (Mary Boland, The Women), Stewart Corder (William Gargan, who played radio and TV detective Martin Kane) and Judy Jones […]
Arañas Infernales (1968)
Translate this title as Hellish Spiders and you know what Blue Demon is up against and man, is there any better genre in the world than Mexican lucha libre movies? Get this. Blue Demon is up against the entire planet of Arácnea which is trying to cultivate human brains as food for their demanding queen. How […]
Santo contra la Magia Negra (1973)
Santo goes on vacation and shoots a movie, then forgets that he needs a wrestling scene and Alfredo B. Crevenna tells him they can fix it in editing, so he just splices in the scenes from La Venganza de las Mujeres Vampiros and says, “No te preocupes, Santo bebé. Van a comenzar en Sasha Montenegro […]
Santo contra Blue Demon en la Atlantida (1970)
To enjoy a Santo movie, you must just say, “Well, yes, alright” to all manner of statements. For example, you must realize that Santo is the equal of Batman, a scientific genius who is also a millionaire playboy who the cops rely on to solve all manner of cases but he also wrestles and unlike […]
Double Blind (2018)
When a team of scientists on the verge of a medical breakthrough suddenly are killed, two agents come together to protect the last surviving scientist while trying to learn why these murders have happened. Seriously, these enemy agents mean business, because this starts with one of them meeting his girlfriend’s family, who he immediately slaughters. […]
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