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El Hacha Diabólica

The Diabolical Axe
The Diabolical Hatchet / Santo en El Hacha Diabólica

Mexico 1964
produced by
Luis Enrique Vergara for Filmica Vergara
directed by José Díaz Morales
starring Santo, Lorena Velázquez, Fernando Osés, Bety González, Mario Sevilla, Mário Orea, Guillermo Hernández (= Lobo Negro), José Alvarez Valdez, Mário Zebadúa, Martha Lasso Rentería, Emilio Garibay, Carlos Suárez, Margarito Luna, Víctor Velázquez, Juan Garza, Jorge Mateos, Roy Fletcher
story by Fernando Osés, Rafael García Travesi, screenplay by Rafael García Travesi, music by Jorge Pérez

El Santo

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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It's 1603: Santo, the silver-masked hero) has just died, but at his grave, a black masked figure with an axe looking like an executioner, Black Mask (Fernando Osés) appears out of thin air and swears to have revenge on his descendants.

Flash forward to now (this being 1964): Santo has a wrestling match, when out of thin air, Black Mask appears and tries to kill Santo with his axe. When he fails, he disappears again just like he appeared in the first place, and the axe disappears with him. Later, Black Mask makes another attempt on Santo's life, but this time the axe stays behind when he disappears again and a woman, Isabela (Lorena Velázquez), appears (need I say, out of thin air) and even though he has never seen her, Santo seems to know her.

Santo now asks his friend Professor Zanoni (Mario Sevilla) for help, who for some reason has cracked the secret of (Spiritual) time travel and he lets Santo relive his past life, that which ended in 1603: Back then there were two aristocrats, one good one evil, fighting for the affections of Lady Isabela (yup the one from above) using rapiers, and in a duel, the good one wins out. The evil one however is a sore loser and contacts some demon to give him supernatural powers in exchange for his soul and turns into Black Mask. Then he tries to first win Lady Isabela's affections, and when tht doesn't work, he chains her up to torture her. Our good aristocrat then tries to free her, but Black Mask is now much more powerful than before and our hero only just manages to escape with his life. He then turns to the white magician Abraca (Mario Sevilla again) to give him extra powers too ... and wouldn't you know it, suddenly he turns into Santo. As Santo he fights and defeats Black Mask, but by now Isabela is already dead. Santo vows to fight for good from now on and becomes a monk.

Back in the now: Black Mask tries to kill Santo (the current Santo, his mask is handed down from father to son since the 16-hundreds) again, but when that doesn't work, he kills his girlfriend (Betty González) instead. Now Santo knows it's time for the final showdown, and he fights Black Mask and defeats him by removing his mask, which immediately makes the villain turn to dust. Dona Isabela appears again to thank Santo for freeing her soul.

 

Of course, the plot of El Hacha Diabólica is a load of baloney, and it's made rather on the cheap, but that doesn't necessarily make the movie a bad film: It is fittingly moody and creepy in atmosphere, the period sequences are on a small scale but look convincing enough (apart from Santo's wrestling outfit), and the Black Mask's exectuioner-style outfit may be cheap but it's suitably chilling. Of course, if you don't like Mexican masked wrestler (or lucha libre) movies as such, you will hate this one, but if you can accept a bit of silliness into your life, you'll probably be entertained.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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