Professor Norton is murdered just after having developed the neutron
bomb to perfection by non other than his less talented assistand professor
Walker (Claudio Brook), who wants to use the bomb to rule the world.
Unfortunately, the bomb accidently goes off and destroys the bomb's
construction guide and horribly disfigures professor Walker - but it also
gives him a great opportunity to fake his own death. And once dead, Walker
doesn't waste much time and teams up with Doctor Caronte (Julio Alemán),
a masked madman who has long planned to rule the world, and the neutron
bomb finally gives him the perfect opportunity to do so. Sure, the
construction guide has gone up in smoke, but Walker knows the scientists
to steal the components from ... Professor Norton's son Jaime is
devastated by his father's death, so he calls on his two best friends
Carlos (Wolf Ruvinskis) and Mario, and the three team up with Walker's
pretty niece Nora to investigate. They soon figure out that Walker is
still alive and is in cahoots with Doctor Caronte, and they also figure
out the two of them must attempt to reassemble the neutron bomb. Problem
though: Doctor Caronte has an army of zombies doing his bidding, and he
doesn't like our heroes meddling in his affairs one bit. But our heroes
have a helper, black masked strongman Neutron, who always seems to know
exactly what's going on - and who might actually be one of them - but
which one. After much chases, fights, the occasional murder, and zombie
attacks aplenty, our heroes and Neutron have made it to Doctor Caronte's
headquarters, where they find themselves cornered by the zombies - but
also get their hands on the neutron bomb and protective suits, so they
pretty much beat the baddies with their own weapons - only Caronte
escapes. And Neutron? He reveals himself to be Carlos in the end - not
that this mystery was of the utmost concern of the movie. Low
budget Mexican movies with science fiction elements and masked heroes are
always sort of fun (well, most of the time) for their simplistic stories
full of pulp mainstays, scientific nonsense, unbelievable plottwists and
larger-than-life heroes - and Neutrón, el Enmascarado Negro is no
exception. That's not to say it's a good film, not even when compared to
other genre entries, it's just saying that if you can accept films about
masked heroes in crazy sci fi plots, you will probably enjoy this one.
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