The country's top scientists are murdered under extremely mysterious
circumstances, and a villain called Malkosh (Carlos Agostí) blackmails the gouvernment
into paying him 10 million Dollars in gold - but investigating inspector
O'Connor (Marco Antonio Campos) has the good sense of sending masked wrestler Santo (Santo) along
to the pick-up, where he takes out all of Malkosh's goons before Malkosh
manages to overcome him ... but instead of killing Santo, Malko lets him
wrestle two Roman gladiators and then a guy with a flamethrower, all of
whom he conjures out of thin air. Of course Santo remains victorious in
all three fights, and the guy with the flamethrower even comes in handy
when making Malkosh's personal guards shoot one another and wound Malkosh
lethally. With his dying breath, Malkosh makes a sort-of confession: The
businessmen weren't killed by anything earthly but by a blob created by
moonstone that came in contact with the atmosphere. In the whole world,
there is one scientist who knows the secrets of moonstone, Dr Bernstein
(Carlos Suárez),
but he has been kidnapped by Malkosh's ally turned rival Licur (Juan
Gallardo).
Eventually, Malkosh is killed by his own creation, the blob, but to
destroy the blob, which before long will pose a huge threat to
humankind, Santo has to free Dr Bernstein, and the only way to find him is
through his daughter Karen (Sasha Montenegro) ... who's soon kidnapped by Licur's goons
though because Bernstein refuses to tell Licur how to control the blob -
but with a little persuasion from his daughter ... Santo is quick to
find Licur's hideout, and though it's heavily guarded, eventually all the
guards are absorbed by the blob, eventually even Licur himself, only
Santo, Dr Bernstein and Karen are able to escape - with the blob in hot
pursuit, and against all expectations, Dr Bernstein has no idea of how to
stop it. But hey, Santo's genius as a professional wrestler ultimately has
a solution for this, why not lure the blob into a cave full of poisoned
gasses, find an underground lake with an underwater connection to the
outside, and blow up the cave with the blob in it while escape via the
lake. All so obvious, right? Ok, the most obvious thing about
the film: The blob looks nothing like it's supposed to be, it looks like
several extras walking under a dirty rug - which is exactly what the blob
is, too. Heck, you can even see some holes in the rug for the guys and
girls to know where they're going. This of course takes all the excitement
out of the blog murders, and makes the blob chase scenes rather
ridiculous. But hey, Santo
films are best not judged by their (mostly sloppy) special effects but by
the fun they are (intentional or unintentional) - and this one's pretty
funny. It's decently paced, with quite a few fights and chases, it's full
of pulp mainstays, it's campy, at times goofy, the props and special
effects are of a lovably retro style (even for the 1970s), and while it
was quite obviously not made for laughs, there are beyond plenty in this
one. So don't expect this for decent genre entertainment, but see it as
great fun!
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