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El Charro de las Calaveras

The Rider of the Skulls

Mexico 1965
produced by
Miguel Ángel Barragán
directed by Alfredo Salazar
starring Dagorberto Rodríguez, David Silva, Alicia Caro, Pascual García Pena, Laura Martínez, Rosario Montes, Carlos del Muro, Jose Luis Cabrera, Gabriel Agrasanchez, Alfonso Ortiz, Alfredo Salazar
written by Alfredo Salazar, music by Gustavo César Carrión

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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A werewolf is roaming the neighbourhood, so Don Luis (David Silva) calls the Rider of the Skulls (Dagoberto Rodríguez), a masked hero on a horse, to protect his family. But then out of nowhere, the werewolf kills Don Luis' wife (Alicia Caro). It's only when the werewolf is hunted down and killed that the Rider learns the werewolf was actually Don Luis himself. As a consequence, the Rider is now burdened with two sidekicks, Don Luis' young son Perico and his old servant Cléofas (Pascual Carcía Pena).

Soon enough, a vampire is roaming the neighbourhood, and he has set his eyes on a young woman, Maria, especially, who just happens to be good friends with the Rider, who has sworn to bring down the vampire. Eventually, the vampire gets his hands on Maria, makes her his slave, and uses her as bait for the Rider. But of course, in the end the vampire is staked ...

Now a headless rider is terrorizing the region. It is said that it is the body of an executed criminal whose head was stolen by a scientist, and now he wants his head back. In a related story, Gloria finds a box containing a severed head that sometimes talks back among her deceased grandfather's things. She decides to bring the head back to the headless horseman to see to it that he gets to rest in peace. But no such luck, with the head reattached, the formerly headless horseman sees the opportunities of an undead criminal and decides to stay alive (or rather undead), even though heaven uses its loudest thunders to remind him where he's supposed to go. But when thunders don't seem to do the trick, it's up to the Rider of the Skulls again to set things right ...

 

The best way to describe this Western-horror blend is crude but fun. Basically the whole thing was made on the cheap, best witnessed of course in the very basic monster masks and special effects, and crappy sets and locations. On top of that, the film's directorial effort is pretty much as bland as its script is silly. But that said, if you are at least a bit into clichéed old-fashioned low budget horror and US-American B Westerns of the 1930's and 40's, you will find at least something to like in this one ... though whatever you find, it might be of the so-bad-it's-good variety.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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