Caperucita y Pulgarcito contra los Monstruos

Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs the Monsters
Little Red Riding Hood and the Monsters / Tom Thumb and Little Red Riding Hood

Mexico 1962
produced by
Películas Rodríguez
directed by Roberto Rodríguez
starring María Garcia, Cespareo Quezadas Pulgarcito, José Elías Moreno, Manuel Loco Valdés, Santanón, Armando Gutiérrez, Miguel Inclán hijo, Alfredo de Soto, Elvira Lodi, Magda Donato, Quintín Bulnes, Elba Eugenia Migoni, Manuel Vergara Manver, Humberto Dupeyrón, Rubén Márquez, Doncel
written by Fernando Morales Ortiz, Adolfo Torres Portillo, music by Raúl Lavista

Little Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb, Frankenstein

review by
Mike Haberfelner

The realm of evil, ruled by Snow White's Evil Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin): The vampire (Quintin Bulnes) accuses Little Red Riding Hood's Big Bad Wolf (Manuel Loco Valdés) and Tom Thumb's Ogre (José Elias Moreno) of having become friends with their adversaries - a big no-no in the realm of evil. So0 they are to be tortured and executed. Fortunately though, Red's skunk (Santanón) listens in on the trial and brings the news back to Red (Maria Garcia) and Tom (Cesáreo Quezadas Pulgarcito), who immediately head off to visit the Good Morning Fairy and ask for help. Unfortunately, the Fairy can do little in the realm of evil, so other than grow Tom Thumb to human size, there's nothing she can do - and thus it's up to Red, Tom and the skunk to go to the Evil Queen's palace and free their friends.

Of course, the Evil Queen knows about the approach of the heroic trio, so she throws every monster at them she got, like the child snatcher, a Martian robot, Frankenstein's monster and a dragon - to little avail. Only the dragon proves to be a bit of a challenge because ... well, it's a dragon, but then the kids our heroes have previously freed from the childsnatcher arrive for assistance, and the dragon is powerless against strength in numbers. Eventually, our heroes free the Wolf and the Ogre, but then the Evil Queen manages to snatch Red Riding Hood.

Everything culminates in a showdown between our good guys and the Evil Queen, at the end of which she falls into an oven that's connected straight to hell. And with the Evil Queen gone, the realm of evil turns into a friendly place after all.

The best advice I can give you concerning this film is probably: Don't watch it on drugs! Seriously, this is one weird movie. While obviously intended for children and using The Wizard of Oz as a template, this movie doesn't shy away from throwing vampires, robots and the Frankenstein monster into a fairy tale context and creatinmg an at times quite macabre atmosphere. And if you combine this with cheap costumes and very basic special effects, you have - well, something weird!

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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