SANTO VS LAS LOBAS

SANTO IN "THE SHE-WOLVES" Starring: EL SANTO, GLORIA MAYO, RODOLFO DE ANDA, NUBIA MARTI, CARLOS SUAREZ, BRUNO REY, ROSA FURMAN, JORGE RUSSEK and FEDERICO FALCON. SANTO TEACHES THE VILLAGERS OF A SMALL RURAL TOWN HOW TO DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST A GANG OF SAVAGE FEMALE WEREWOLVES THAT HAS BEEN PREYING ON THEM.

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SANTO VS. BLUE DEMON IN ATLANTIS

SANTO CONTRA BLUE DEMON EN LA ATLANTIDA Release date: 1969 Starring: SANTO, BLUE DEMON, AUGUSTIN MARTINEZ SOLARES, JORGE RADO, RAFAEL BANQUELLS, SILVIA PASQUEL, GRISELDA MEJIA, CARLOS SUAREZ. This was one of the first ever team-ups between SANTO and BLUE DEMON. It was so successful, it led to a whole series of meetings between the two Mexi-wrestling superstars in a number of later horror/sci-fi cheapies. In this film, a crazed Nazi scientist in an underwater hideout manages to enslave the will of the Blue Demon, ordering him to attack and destroy his once best friend, the Man in the Silver Mask!

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SANTO Y BLUE DEMON EN LAS BESTIAS DEL TERROR

SANTO AND BLUE DEMON IN "THE BEASTS OF TERROR" Release Date: 1972 Starring: Santo, Blue Demon, Elsa Cardenas, Victor Junco, Cesar Del Campo, Carlos Suarez, Fernando Oses, Alma Ferrari, Quintin Bulnes, Antonio de Hud, Ismael Ramirez. This is a classic team-up film featuring SANTO and BLUE DEMON, pitting the two masked heroes against a mad scientist named Dr. Mathius, who has been experimenting with reviving dead people via blood transfusions; See a man brutally torn to pieces by a pack of wild dogs; See Santo and Blue Demon save a woman from being transformed into a wax figure by the mad doctor; See a pit filled with deadly piranhas claim its hapless victims!

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SANTO EN PROFANADORES DE TUMBAS

SANTO IN "THE GRAVE ROBBERS" Release Date: 1965 (B&W) Starring: Santo, Gina Romand, Mario Orea, Jorge Peral, Lobo Negro, Nathanael Leon, Juan Garcia, Los Chavales, Jesus Camcho, Jessica Munguia, Fernando Saucedo. A mad scientist named Dr. Toicher is robbing graves, with the aid of his evil henchmen, and using the corpses in his scientific research; the mad doctor brings some inanimate objiects (such as a lamp, a wig, a violin, etc.) to life and sends them to attack Santo, who has been prying into the evil scientist's affairs.

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SANTO Y BLUE DEMON CONTRA LOS MONSTRUOS

SANTO AND BLUE DEMON VS. THE MONSTERS Release date: 1969 Starring: SANTO, BLUE DEMON, RESORTES, HEIDI BLUE, CARLOS ANCIRA, DAVID AVIZU, MANUEL LEAL, JORGE RADO. This one's got it all! Santo and the Blue Demon team up to tackle the greatest Mexi-monsters of all time in this amazing schlock-fest....the Frankenstein Monster, a Wolf Man, a Vampira and even a furry Cyclops! Santo himself always regarded this film as one of his all-time favorites, since it's so jam-packed with goofy-looking monsters. Enjoy!

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SANTO CONTRA LA MAFIA DEL VICIO

SANTO VS. THE MAFIA OF VICE (aka MISION SABOTAGE) Starring: Santo, Elsa Cardenas, Mabel Luna, Patricia Ferrer, Carlos Suarez, Cesar Del Campo, Sonia Fuentes, Dagoberto Rodriguez Santo goes up against a gang of drug smugglers in this one, and gets to meet lots of bikini-clad beauties along the way; the pre-credit sequence features a music video wherein Santo and a then-famous Mexican entertainer named Jimmy Santy do the Frug with a bunch of bikini chicks on a beach; lots of hot, good-looking Mexi-women in this one!

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SANTO CONTRA LAS MUJERES VAMPIRAS

SANTO VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMEN (aka "SAMSON VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMEN") Release date: 1962 Starring: Santo, Lorena Velazquez, Ofelia Montez, Jaime Fernandez, Augusto Benedico, Fernando Oses, Maria Duval, Xavier Loya. Several centuries after they were staked in their coffins, a coven of vicious vampire women arise from the dead and seek to kidnap a human woman whom they wish to make their new queen; Santo, the famed masked wrestler/ superhero, gets involved in the struggle as he seeks to protect the vampires' victim from falling into their clutches; this was one of the few Santo films that was actually dubbed in English and shown on American TV in the 1960's; this DVD however presents the original, uncut and unedited Spanish language version (which collectors know rarely turns up north of the border).

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SANTO VS. EL CEREBRO DIABOLICO

SANTO VS. THE DIABOLICAL BRAIN Starring: SANTO, FERNANDO CASANOVA, ANA BERTHA LEPE, FERNANDO OSES, LUIS ACEVES CASTANEDA, ROBERTO RAMIREZ, AUGUSTO BENEDICO. SANTO AND TWO OF HIS POLICEMEN FRIENDS (PLAYED BY CASANOVA AND RAMIREZ) COMBAT A LUSTFUL GANGSTER WHO RULES OVER THE INHABITANTS OF A SMALL WESTERN CATTLE TOWN. THIS FILM IS REMINISCENT OF THE OLD REPUBLIC SERIALS OF THE 1940s, WITH LOTS OF SENSELESS BRAWLING AND FISTICUFFS BREAKING OUT AT THE DROP OF A SOMBRERO. THIS WAS THE ONLY SANTO FILM IN WHICH THE MASKED MAN DISPLAYED WHAT SEEM TO BE SUPER-POWERS, AS HE USES HIS LEGS TO PREVENT A SMALL AIRPLANE FROM TAKING OFF!!

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LAS MOMIAS DE GUANAJUATO

THE MUMMIES OF GUANAJUATO Release date: 1970 Starring: SANTO, BLUE DEMON, MIL MASCARAS, ELSA CARDENAS, CARLOS LEON, CARLOS SUAREZ, DAVID LAMA, MABEL LUNA, JUAN GALLARDO. This was the all-time favorite, highest-grossing Mexican wrestling/horror film ever made! Featuring an amazing team-up of three of Mexico's greatest masked luchadores.... SANTO, BLUE DEMON and MIL MASCARAS, banding together to save a small Mexican village from a horde of rampaging, rotting mummies! The release of this film in 1970 represented the high point in Mexican horror cinema, and led to a marked increase in genre films in Mexico over the next five years. When you see this flick, you'll understand why horror fans the world over cry "Viva El Santo!"

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SANTO VS. LA MAGIA NEGRA

SANTO VS. BLACK MAGIC Starring: SANTO, SASHA MONTENEGRO, ELSA CARDENAS, GUILLERMO GALVEZ, FERNANDO OSES, CARLOS SUAREZ, GERTY JONES and CESAR DEL CAMPO. SANTO battles a black magic cult in Haiti in this supernatural/ action thriller. Lots of Voodoo dolls and poison snakes in this one. Look out, Santo!

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SANTO CONTRA CAPULINA

SANTO VS. CAPULINA Release Date: 1968 Starring: Santo, Capulina, Liza Castro, Crox Alvarado, Carlos Agosti, Nathanael Leon, Juan Garza, Lobo Negro, Rene Cardona the 3rd, Carlos Suarez, Jorge Guzman. Santo meets Mexican funnyman Capulina in this classic action/ comedy, and the both of them go up against a gang of diamond smugglers and a scientist who creates robot duplicates of the two crime-fighters; this film featured Jorge Guzman in a small role, who was Santo's real-life son and who years later went on to become el Hijo del Santo; Capulina's boss in the film was played by Angel di Stefani, the man who played the Aztec Mummy back in 1957.

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SANTO EN EL HOTEL DE LA MUERTE

SANTO IN THE HOTEL OF DEATH Release date: 1961 Starring: SANTO, FERNANDO CASANOVA, ANA BERTHA LEPE, ROBERTO RAMIREZ, AUGUSTO BENEDICO, WALLY BARRON, LUIS ARAGON, ALEX PARODI.SANTO is brought in by the police to help solve a series of murders at a posh resort hotel, a case that has confounded two investigating detectives (played by FERNANDO CASANOVA and BETO EL BOTICARIO). In Italian giallo-style, the guests continue to turn up dead, and SANTO attempts to catch the killer. In these early films, SANTO shared the action with other protagonists (secret agents, policemen, etc.) but with his massive frame and silver mask, he still manages to steal every scene he's in.

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SANTO EN EL MUSEO DE CERA

SANTO EN EL MUSEO DE CERA SANTO IN THE WAX MUSEUM Release date: 1963 Starring: SANTO, CLAUDIO BROOK, JOSE MONDRAGON, RUBEN ROJO, ROXANA BELLINI, NORMA MORA, FERNANDO OSES, JOSE JIMENEZ. This was without a doubt one of the most popular Santo movies ever made, as well as being one of the very few that was eventually dubbed in English for distribution in the USA. Clearly inspired by the 1953 Vincent Price classic "HOUSE OF WAX", this film features a horribly disfigured mad sculptor and his gang of monstrous manservants who look like they stepped right out of an old Universal horror movie!

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SANTO EN LA VENGANZA DE LAS MUJERES VAMPIRAS

SANTO IN THE REVENGE OF THE VAMPIRE WOMEN Release date: 1970 Starring: Santo, Aldo Monti, Norma Lazareno, Gina Romand, Victor Junco, Patricia Ferrer, Federico Falcon, Carlos Suarez, Fernando Oses, Yolanda Ponce, Frankestein, Beto el Boticario, Alfonso Munguia. A beautiful vampire queen is staked in her coffin by one of Santo's ancestors in the mid-1800's, only to be exhumed and revived to life 100 years later by a mad scientist and his henchmen; the sexy vampire seeks vengeance on the modern-day descendant of the man who killed her. This film's plot resembles somewhat the British Hammer film "DRACULA AD 1972" (made a year later), although it must have been sheer coincidence; this is a very scarce Mexi-horror film, perhaps one of the hardest-to-find titles in the entire SANTO film series.

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SANTO VS. EL REY DEL CRIMEN

SANTO VS. THE KING OF CRIME Starring: SANTO, FERNANDO CASANOVA, ANA BERTHA LEPE, AUGUSTO BENEDICO, YOLANDA CIANI, FERNANDO OSES, RENE CARDONA SR. This was the only SANTO film ever to reveal his "secret origin", although many later films in the series did not seem to allude to it. A wealthy old man approaching death reveals to his son that he once was the masked superhero named El Santo, and passes his trademark silver mask and secret crime-fighting laboratory down to the boy upon his death. This film also introduced a faithful butler who aids Santo in his war against crime, very similar to the character of Alfred in the 1960s "BATMAN" TV series. This butler was soon after phased out of the SANTO series for reasons unknown.

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SANTO VS. LOS ZOMBIES

SANTO VS. THE ZOMBIES Starring: SANTO, ARMANDO SILVESTRE, DAGOBERTO RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS AGOSTI, RAMON BUGARINI, LORENA VELAZQUEZ, GERARDO ZEPEDA, FERNANDO OSES & JAIME FERNANDEZ. This was one of the earliest (and greatest) SANTO films made in Mexico in the Sixties; it was followed by 4 dozen other SANTO features over the next 15 years, so it must have been a great hit upon its 1961 release; this film was later released in the USA under the title "INVASION OF THE ZOMBIES"; now you can enjoy this 1961 classic as it was originally intended to be seen, in its original Spanish language format with english subtitles

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EL TERRIBLE GIGANTE DE LAS NIEVES

THE TERRIBLE SNOW GIANT Release Date: 1962 Starring: Joaquin Cordero, Ana Bertha Lepe, Jose Chavez, Elizabeth Dupeyron, David Hayat, Jose Eduardo Perez, Antonio Raxel, Andres Soler In 1962, Rafael Grovas produced a Sci-Fi film called "THE VOLCANO MONSTER", which was about an Abominable Snowman that terrorizes the mountainous areas above a small Mexican village; at the end of the film, the beast plunged to his death from a cliff and the villagers thought that was the end of it; now in this 1962 sequel ("THE TERRIBLE SNOW GIANT"), the Snow-Creature has apparently returned from the dead to once more haunt the Mexican hill country and the frightened villagers must come up with a permanent way to defeat the beast.

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GIGANTES PLANETARIOS

PLANETARY GIANTS Release Date: 1965 Starring: Guillermo Murray, Adriana Roel, Rogelio Guerra, Jose Angel Espinosa (aka "Ferrusquilla"), Carlos Nieto, Jose Galvez, Nathanael Leon, Daniel Villaran, Evita Munoz (aka "Chachita"), Irma Lozano, Mario Orea. A group of astronauts (led by Guillermo Murray) travel to another planet to save the Earth from being blown up; this is one of the only Sci-Fi space films ever made in Mexico, since this particular genre relied more on lavish budgets than any other; some fans regard the film as a "poor man's Star Trek"; while the sets were still standing, director Crevenna rushed out a sequel the same year, entitled "PLANET OF THE WOMEN INVADERS" , which also starred Guillermo Murray as the leader of the astronaut squadron.

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EL LATIGO VS. SATANAS

THE WHIP VS. SATAN Release Date: 1980 (Filmed in Color) Starring: Juan Miranda, Noe Murayama, Ruben Rojo, Yolanda Ochoa, Victor Alcocer, Maria Teresa Martinez, Ernesto Merida, Manuel Resendess, Leonardo Moran. This was the 2nd film in a trilogy of Mexican horror/ westerns featuring a Zorro-like character known as El Latigo; in this film, a cult of satanic devil-worshippers is terrorizing the Mexican countryside and kidnaps a beautiful young woman intending to sacrifice her to their Volcano God; don't miss the stunning finale in which El Latigo rescues the girl from the devil cult and has a climactic battle with their evil leader, a demonic dude in a wacky-looking Goats-Head mask!

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LOS ENDEMONIADOS DEL RING

(DEMONS OF THE RING) Release date: 1964 Starring: Karloff Lagarde, Rene Copete Guajardo, Armando Silvestre, Chucho Salinas, Emily Kranz, Jorge Rivero, Fernando Oses, Benny Galan, Dorrell Dixon, Johnny Dinamo, Dagoberto Rodriguez. This was an action-packed Mexi-Wrestling film featuring a tag-team of two masked luchadors known as The Angel and Satan (played by Lagarde and Guajardo respectively); it was followed by a sequel the same year entitled "THE CLUTCHING HAND"; the costumes in this series were very flashy and seemed to anticipate such later hit Mexi-Wrestling series as the Champions of Justice and the Santo/ Blue Demon teamup movies of the late Sixties.

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REVENGE OF THE RESURRECTED

LA VENGANZA DEL RESUCITADO Release date: 1962 Starring: Julio Aleman, Ana Bertha Lepe, Noe Murayama, Fanny Schiller, Oscar Pulido, Alejandro Parodi, Quintin Bulnes, Emma Roldan, Arturo Rangel, Victor Velazquez, Manuel Alvarado, Angelita Castagni. This action/ thriller was a follow-up sequel to a 1962 Mexi-film entitled "THE HOODED MEN FROM HELL" (LOS ENCAPACHADOS DEL INFIERNO), filmed by the same crew and starring the same cast; Roberto Rodriguez was also the producer of the famed Mexican "LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD" film trilogy; Federico Curiel directed many of the best Mexi-horror films ever made, featuring such super-stars as SANTO, NEUTRON, BLUE DEMON, NOSTRADAMUS and SUPERZAN.

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THE BLACK WHIP

EL LATIGO NEGRO Release date: 1958 Starring: Luis Aguilar (as the Black Whip), Rosa Arenas, Federico Curiel, Jose Baviera, Rosa Durgel, Paz Villegas, Manuel Donde, Consuelo Frank, Jose Munoz, Victorio Blanco. Many of the greatest Mexican superheroes were variations of the famous Zorro theme, with El Latigo Negro (The Black Whip) being perhaps the most famous of the bunch; this was the 1st film in the series, followed immediately by two sequels "Mystery of the Black Whip" and "The Black Whip Vs. The Ghost of the Hanged Man"; Federico Curiel not only directed this film, he also contributed to the screenplay, acted in it and wrote two of the songs for the film's soundtrack.

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THE GHOST OF THE HANGED MAN VS. THE BLACK WHIP

EL ANIMA DEL AHORCADO CONTRA EL LATIGO NEGRO Release Date: 1959 Starring: Luis Aguilar (as the Black Whip), Rosa Arenas, Rosa Durgel, Consuelo Frank, Federico Curiel, Fernando Celis, Ernesto Finance, Jose Eduardo Perez, Guillermo Calles, Guillermo Hernandez, Vicente Lara. Many of the greatest Mexican superheroes were variations of the famous Zorro theme, with El Latigo Negro (The Black Whip) being perhaps the most famous of the bunch; this was the 3rd film in the series, following "The Black Whip" and "Mystery of the Black Whip"; it was followed in the 1960's by two sequels, "The Adventures of the Black Whip" and "El Latigo Negro Contra Los Farsantes".

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NEUTRON, THE MAN IN THE BLACK MASK

NEUTRON, EL ENMASCARADO NEGRO Release date: 1960 Starring: WOLF RUBINSKI, ROSITA ARENAS, ARMANDO SILVESTRE, JACK TAYLOR, JULIO ALEMAN, CLAUDIO BROOK, ROBERTO RAMIREZ & RODOLFO LANDA. NEUTRON first appeared in a trilogy of films all shot back-to-back in 1960. The titles were "NEUTRON, THE MAN IN THE BLACK MASK", "NEUTRON VS. THE DEATH ROBOTS" and "NEUTRON VS. THE AMAZING DR. CARONTE" (all directed by Federico Curiel). The evil Dr. Caronte was the recurring villain in all three films. In 1964, Alfredo Crevenna directed two additional NEUTRON films, "NEUTRON VS. THE MANIAC" and "NEUTRON VS. THE KARATE KILLERS", both of which also starred Wolf Rubinski as the title hero.

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NEUTRON VS. THE DEATH ROBOTS

NEUTRON CONTRA LOS AUTOMATAS DE LA MUERTE Release date: 1960 Starring: WOLF RUBINSKI, ROSITA ARENAS, ARMANDO SILVESTRE, JACK TAYLOR, JULIO ALEMAN, CLAUDIO BROOK, ROBERTO RAMIREZ & RODOLFO LANDA. NEUTRON first appeared in a trilogy of films all shot back-to-back in 1960. The titles were "NEUTRON, THE MAN IN THE BLACK MASK", "NEUTRON VS. THE DEATH ROBOTS" and "NEUTRON VS.THE AMAZING DR. CARONTE" (all directed by Federico Curiel). The evil Dr. Caronte was the recurring villain in all three films. In 1964, Alfredo Crevenna directed two additional NEUTRON films, "NEUTRON VS. THE MANIAC" and "NEUTRON VS. THE KARATE KILLERS", both of which also starred Wolf Rubinski as the title hero.

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NEUTRON VS. THE AMAZING DR. CARONTE

NEUTRON CONTRA EL DOCTOR CARONTE Release date: 1960 Starring: WOLF RUBINSKI, ROSITA ARENAS, ARMANDO SILVESTRE, JACK TAYLOR, JULIO ALEMAN, CLAUDIO BROOK, ROBERTO RAMIREZ & RODOLFO LANDA. This film was the 3rd in a trilogy of Neutron adventures shot in 1960, and featured Neutron's final battle with the evil DR. CARONTE. The three 1960 Neutron films were entitled "NEUTRON, THE MAN IN THE BLACK MASK", "NEUTRON VS. THE DEATH ROBOTS" and "NEUTRON VS. THE AMAZING DR. CARONTE" (all directed by Federico Curiel). In 1964, Alfredo Crevenna directed two additional NEUTRON films, "NEUTRON VS. THE MANIAC" and "NEUTRON VS. THE KARATE KILLERS", both of which also starred Wolf Rubinski as the title hero.

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THE HEADLESS RIDER IN THE HEAD OF PANCHO VILLA

LA CABEZA DE PANCHO VILLA Release date: 1956 Starring: Luis Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Jaime Fernandez, Crox Alvarado, Pascual Garcia Pena, Salvador Godinez, Carlos Suarez, Alberto Pedret, Guillermo Cramer, Eduardo Bonada, Fernando Oses, Antonio Sandoval. In 1956, the "HEADLESS RIDER" serial was re-edited into three full-length films....."THE HEADLESS RIDER", "THE MARK OF SATAN" and "THE HEAD OF PANCHO VILLA", all three films featuring the ghostly crime-fighting title character; Ramon Obon wrote many of the greatest Mexi-horror films ever made, including "El Vampiro", "The Vampire's Coffin" and "The Black Pit of Dr. M"; Chano Urueta directed a number of other Mexican horror classics, such as "La Bruja", "El Monstruo Resucitado", "The Brainiac" and "The Witch's Mirror".

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TERROR MADNESS

A LOCURA DE TERROR Release date: 1961 Starring: Tin Tan, Loco Valdes, Sonia Furio, David Silva, Andres Soler, Veronica Loyo, Agustin Isunza, Consuelo Guerrero de Luna, Elizabeth Dupeyron, Nathanael Leon. Music: Chucho Zarzosa Cinematography: Raul Martinez Solares Special Effects: Ricardo Sainz This is one of the funniest horror/comedies from the Golden Age of Mexican Films, starring two of Mexico's all-time greatest comedians, Tin Tan and his real-life brother Loco Valdes; this film is a horror spoof reminiscent of the classic "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein", replete with great special effects and a really spooky black & white atmosphere.

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LA BRUJA

THE WITCH Release Date: 1954 Starring: Lilia Del Valle, Ramon Gay, Julio Villarreal, Luis Aceves Castaneda, Fernando Wagner, Charles Rooner, Jose Rene Ruiz. This is one of the very first true Mexi-Horror movies ever made, released even before "EL LADRON DE CADAVERES" and the Aztec Mummy series, and until now it has always been one of the hardest film titles for collectors to locate; a mad scientist agrees to cure a witch's hideously disfigured face if she will, in return, agree to help him to kill his enemies; a shocking descent into the wacky world of Mexi-Horror!

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ROSTRO INFERNAL

HELL FACE (aka THE INCREDIBLE FACE OF DR. B) Release Date: 1963 Starring: Eric Del Castillo, Rosa Carmina, Jaime Fernandez, Elsa Cardenas, Ramon Bugarini, Yerye Beirute, Jose Luis Jimenez, Manuel Zozaya, Miguel Angel Ferriz, Judith Azcarraga. Count Brankovan uses the brains of innocent people to give himself eternal life; a very weird Mexican sci-fi film about a madman who will stop at nothing to avoid aging and dying, even at the expense of whomever falls into his clutches; this film was followed several months later by a sequel entitled "LA HUELLA MACABRE" (The Macabre Mark) with pretty much the same cast and crew; "HELL FACE" was later released in the USA under the alternate title "THE INCREDIBLE FACE OF DR. B".

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EL MUSEO DE HORROR

THE MUSEUM OF HORROR Release date: 1963 Starring: JULIO ALEMAN, PATRICIA CONDE, JOAQUIN CORDERO, DAVID REYNOSO, SONIA INFANTE, EMMA ROLDAN, CARLOS LOPEZ MOCTEZUMA. This is a really spooky Mexi-Horror film from the 1960's that was obviously inspired by the famous 1954 Vincent Price horror classic "HOUSE OF WAX"; a mad scientist transforms his female victims into exhibits in his gruesome wax museum; this film is a must-see for all Mexican horror movie fans!

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EL MONSTRUO DE LOS VOLCANES

THE VOLCANO MONSTER (aka EL FANTASMA DE LAS NIEVES) Release date: 1962 Starring: Joaquin Cordero, Ana Bertha Lepe, Andres Soler, David Hayat, Victor Alcocer, Jose Chavez, Antonio Raxel. This film was inspired by the rash of 1950's horror movies dealing with the legend of the Abominable Snowman that were being churned out of Hollywood and British studios around that time; a huge hairy Yeti terrorizes the inhabitants of a small mountain town in Mexico, prompting some courageous individuals to go up into the snowy wastes to track him down; it features one of the most memorable (and goofiest) monster suits in Mexi-Horror history and is a must-see; this film has long been one of the scarcest Mexican horror films to locate (since it was never dubbed in English), and only recently has a really nice print of it finally surfaced on DVD.

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EL LATIGO

THE WHIP Release Date: 1978 (Filmed in Color) Starring: Juan Miranda, Maria Almada, Gustavo Rojo, Yolanda Ochoa, Angelica Chain, Jose Luis Fernandez, Alonso Milian, Francisco Almorza, Carlos Figueroa, Baltazar Ramos This was the first film in a trilogy of Mexican horror/ westerns featuring a Zorro-like character known as El Latigo; in this film, a vicious killer is murdering people in a western town and leaving hideous claw marks on his victims' faces; El Latigo helps a beautiful young woman find her father's killer while protecting a group of local Aztecs from a corrupt white sheriff and his cronies; don't miss the stunning finale in which the hero grapples on a towering cliff with the killer who's wearing what has got to be the cheesiest Tiger costume in cinematic history!

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EL LATIGO CONTRA LAS MOMIAS ASESINAS

THE WHIP VS. THE KILLER MUMMIES Release Date: 1980 (Filmed in Color) Starring: Juan Miranda, Rosa Gloria Chagoyan, Marco de Carlo, Manuel Leal (aka Tineablas), Guillermino Oropeza, Alfonso Milian, Leopoldo Guerrero, Cesar de Guatamala, Bernabe Palma. This was the 3rd (and best) film in a trilogy of Mexican horror/ westerns featuring a Zorro-like character known as El Latigo; in this film, a group of reanimated killer mummies is murdering people in a Mexican town and El Latigo helps a beautiful young woman to protect her family members who are all targeted for destruction by the lumbering creatures; in the stunning finale, El Latigo takes his lethal whip to the mummies, going one on one with their huge 7-foot-tall leader, and sends them all back to Hell. (Famed Mexi-wrestler Tinieblas was cast as the gigantic lead mummy because of his massive size.)

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LA MANO QUE APRIETA

THE CLUTCHING HAND Release date: 1964 Starring: Karloff Lagarde, Rene Copete Guajardo, Claudio Brook, Gina Romand, Chucho Salinas, Maria Eugenia San Martin, Andres Soler, Fernando Oses, Lobo Negro, Picorro, Tito Novarro. This was an action-packed Mexi-Wrestling film featuring Los Endemonadios Del Ring (The Demons of the Ring), a tag-team comprised of two masked luchadors known as The Angel and Satan (played by Lagarde and Guajardo respectively); the costumes in this series were very flashy and seemed to anticipate such later hit Mexi-Wrestling series as the Champions of Justice and the Santo/ Blue Demon teamup movies of the late Sixties; the villain in the film utilizes a scary fake monster hand to intimidate his henchmen and intended victims; a real homage to the beloved American action serials of the 1940's.

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