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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.
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