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Blue Demon y Zovek en La Invasión de los Muertos
Blue Demon and Zovek in Invasion of the Dead
Mexico 1973
produced by René Cardona jr, Enrique Rosas G. for Productora Filmica Real, Producciones Nova
directed by René Cardona
starring Zovek, Blue Demon (= Alejandro Moreno), Christa Linder, Raúl Ramirez, Polo Ortin, Gerardo Zepeda, Armando Acosta, René Barrera, Carlos Cardán, Ramón Menéndez, Roberto Y. Palacios, Guillermo Ayala, Eduardo Bonada, Francisco Fernández, Gonzalo García, William Jordan, Carl Linder, Jorge Mistral, Angel Paniaga, Cesar Silva
story by René Cardona jr, screenplay by René Cardona, music by Raúl Lavista
Zovek, Blue Demon
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Archeologist Volpi (Raúl Ramírez) and his daughter Erika (Christa
Linder) have found some weird inscriptions in some remote desert area and
ask heroic professor Zovek for assistance in deciphering them. It doesn't
take Zovek long to figure out the inscriptions mean the dead will raise
from their graves to attack the living. Now that seems far fetched, but
then a meteorite hits earth and causes the dead to rise from their graves
to attack the living. Professor Volpi soon falls prey to the living
dead, and Zovek has his hands full to keep Erika from sharing his fate,
especially when the dead get more and more and spoil every rescue effort
from the outside. Apart from that, these zombies only seem to be lumbering
idiots, but when need arises, they are very well equipped to drive cars or
fly helicopters. Eventually, Zovek and Erika are faced with a desert
full of zombies, but then Zovek just happens to remember that he has
recently passed the meteor that has caused all of this, makes the high
voltage line that passes over it collapse onto it, and this way he blows
the thing up, and in consequence, the zombies all explode (!) as well. Masked
wrestler Blue Demon is also in the film (as the title suggests), but he
doesn't at all interact with Zovek and was actually brought into the whole
thing only after Zovek (a popular escape artist when he was not filming)
died in real life and somebody was needed to shoot some transitional and
explanatory sequences. Blue Demon does wrestle a handful of zombies
though, but is not really involved in the progress of the film's plot. A
typical piece of Mexican sci-fi-horror trash: It's silly in a cringeworthy
way, it's cheaply made, the cast is wooden and reacts to the terrible
situations rather underwhelmingly, it's got a ridiculously macho hero, and
hey, there's even a masked wrestler around - and all of this adds up to a
wonderful movie. Sure, the film is entertaining for all the wrong reasons,
but it's great fun still and probably the perfect party movie - I dare say
it gets better with each beer you've had.
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