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Santo y Blue Demon contra el Doctor Frankestein
Santo and Blue Demon vs. Dr. Frankenstein
Mexico 1973
produced by Guillermo Calderón for Cinematográfica Calderón
directed by Miguel M.Delgado
starring Santo, Blue Demon (= Alejandro Moreno), Sasha Montenegro, Jorge Russek, Ivonne Govea, Ruben Aguirre, Jorge Mondragon, Angelica Chain
written by Francisco Cavazos, Alfredo Salazar, music by Gustavo César Carrión
El Santo, Blue Demon, El Santo and Blue Demon, Frankenstein
review by Mike Haberfelner
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To revive his deceased wife he keeps in deep freeze, evil Frankenstein
Jorge Russek, abducts young girls to try out some
brain-transplantation-experiments - Unfortunately with little success,
as they only turn into mindless zombies with a predilection for
murdering their next of kin (?!). Soon though, the scientist concludes
he needs Santo for brain transplantation purposes (!?), & in order
to lure him into a trap he abducts the daughter of our wrestler's
deceased master, who Santo & Blue Demon brought up. Of course, Santo
falls into that trap - even willingly - & ends up on an operating
table, from which he is saved by Blue Demon in - literally - the last
minute.
Our 2 masked wrestling herose now turn the tables on the mad
scientist & his gang, smash his lab, free the girl & capture
most of Frankenstein's minions, but unfortunately the doc himself
escapes.
To avenge himself, he now has his invincible creature Golem
fight Santo in the ring, a fight even Santo cannot win. But Blue Demon
finds out the secret of the mysterious masked wrestler Golem & his
equally masked manager (Frankenstein), & our wrestling heroes manage
to turn the tables again & after fighting the 2 villains on a
catwalk high above the ground, they throw them down to their certain
deaths.
Yes, I am a sucker for these Mexican masked wrestler movies, but this
is definitely not one of the better Santo-horrors. Especially in the
first half, the pace is way too slow, with too much talk
overcomplicating the silly story & not enough action, even long
scenes without any wrestler at all, & the story has many subplots
thrown in at will, that are just introduced to take up some time &
then abandoned altogether (for example, Santo & Blue Demon are
briefly teamed up with 2 female detectives who are long gone from the
plot before anything exciting happens, & Frankenstein hires 2 brain
surgeons who are just introduced to the audience but never brought back
at all). Still, a movie that has Santo & Blue Demon in suit & tie
but wearing their traditional masks wrestling down some thugs has at least
something to go for it.
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