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Blue Demon: El Demonio Azul
Blue Demon
Mexico 1965
produced by Luis Enrique Vergara, Jorge García Besné (executive) for Filmica Vergara
directed by Chano Urueta
starring Blue Demon (= Alejandro Moreno), Jaime Fernández, Rosa María Vázquez, Mario Orea, Altia Michel, Fernando Osés, Cesar Gay, Lobo Negro (= Guillermo Hernandez), Ivonne Govea, Víctor Jordán, Ray Mendoza, Henry Pilusso, Margarito Luna, Carlos Suárez, Miguel Funes hijo, Nathanael León, Dick Medrano, Joe Carson
story by Rafael García Travesi, screenplay by Rafael García Travesi, Fernando Osés, music by Jorge Pérez
Blue Demon
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A couple is found crushed to death, and all evidence suggests they were
killed by a wolf - only, wolves don't actually crush their victims to
death. Of course, this soon leads to rumours that this could be the work
of a werewolf, especially since the area has been the stomping ground of a
(scientifically created) werewolf some 50 years ago. Of course, nobody in
the science world takes this seriously, nobody but Dr. Gruber (Mario
Orea), who hires masked championship wrestler Blue Demon to investigate
undercover. Gruber's suspicion is right on the money of course, as none
other than Lauro (Jaime Fernández), the fiancé of his daughter Marina
(Rosa María Vázquez), is actually a descendant of the scientist who
created the werewolf back when, and he is hell-bent on repeating and
perfecting the creation of his ancestor. But of course, Blue Demon is
bound to get in his way, so he injects one of his underlings (Fernando
Osés), who are for some reason all wrestlers, with the werewolf serum to
kill Blue Demon in the wrestling ring - something that goes horribly wrong
as Blue Demon beats his opponent before he even turns, and when he turns
and has to be shot in front of an audience, this only draws attention to
Lauro's experiments. Lauro tries the serum on himself while locked up in a
cell to ... not sure why really. Meanwhile, Blue Demon has found Lauro's
secret lab, but is overcome by Lauro's assistant Ursus (Lobo Negro), and
it seems it's lights out for our hero, when Lauro enters in his wolfish
state, kills Ursus and fights Blue Demon, who's able to overcome the
werewolf only just, who's ultimately shot dead by the police ...
On paper, this movie has every right to be just awesome, it
has a masked wrestler, a mad scientist and a werewolf, but frankly, this
movie that's also the first with popular wrestler Blue Demon in the lead,
is a rather dull affair: Basically the film never finds its own pace,
everything seems to be terribly functional, no characters are fleshed out,
and there's no urgency to any of the action and thus nothing to keep the
audience engaged. Of course, it's still totally watchable as a curiosity,
but definitely not one of Blue Demon's better or funnier films.
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