Santo Contra Hombres Infernales and Santo Contra Cerebro Del Mal were the first two movies made with El Santo, filmed in Cuba just as Castro took power, and smuggled out in a coffin. Enrique J. Zambrano realized he didn’t have enough coverage for two films, so he mixed footage between the two movies.

Joaquin (Joaquin Cordero) is the real star of this, a cop whose undercover identity is exposed, leading to his lover Irma (Gina Romand) being kidnapped. Santo just comes in to keep saving him. There’s not even a trip to Arena Mexico to wrestle, as Santo movies would later have. In fact, this has nothing to do with the formula you expect from these films. But you do get to see a lot of Cuba.

Santo had taken years off from wrestling to make movies, and this sat on the shelf for three years. Who knew that, despite the first two movies not being as insane as what was to come, Santo would become such a major cultural hero?

I will say that I love these new 4K Santo transfers. It’s wild to see these films in a whole new light, because they look like brand new films.

You can watch this on Blu-ray.