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Santo en la Frontera del Terror
Santo in the Border of Terror
Mexico 1979
produced by Rafael Pérez Grovas for Cinematográfica RA, Producciones Géminis
directed by Rafael Pérez Grovas
starring Santo, Gerardo Reyes, Carmen del Valle, Carlos Suárez, Jean Safont, Federico Falcón, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Sarita Gómez, Fernando Yapur, César García Gómez, Roberto Gómez, Sixto Hinojosa, Guillermo Ayala, Angélica Sierra, Abel Casillas, Óscar Ricci, Guillermo Inclán, Lilia Landua, Armando García Vaca, Enrique Estrada, Cien Caras, Víctor Manuel Mar, Bobby Lee, Ringo Mendoza, 'Karloff' Lagarde, Mocho Kotta, Jungla, Sangre Chicana, Carnicero Aguilar
story by Sergio David, Carlos Suárez, screenplay by Rafael Pérez Grovas, music by Francisco Salcido
El Santo
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Fernando (Federico Falcón) needs money to marry his singer girlfriend
Azucena (Carmen del Valle) and pay for the eye surgery of her daughter
Florecita (Sarita Gómez), so he follows the advice of his friend Gerardo
(Gerardo Reyes) to cross the border from Mexico to the US illegally to
work on Mr. Richards farm, who is said to be a fair employer who pays
well. But once there, they are treated badly by the farm's foreman Monk
(Miguel Ángel Fuentes), and it soon becomes clear they're little more
than slaves here. What's worse, the farm's resident doctor, Dr. Sombra
(Jean Safont), runs a black market organ trading business on the side, and
uses the farm workers as his raw material. He has also turned some of the
workers into mindless zombies to always do his bidding. Fernando and
Gerardo soon try to escape but are captured by Sombra's minions.
Fortunately, Azucena is friends with wrestler and all-around good guy
Santo (Santo), so he and his sidekick Carlitos (Carlos Suárez) cross the
border (legally) to look for Fernando - and to also be captured by
Sombra's goons, as at first even Santo proves no match for his zombified
minions. But luck turns when first Monk turns out to be a good guy after
all having been forced into the role of evil overseer, plus it turns out
Mr. Richards doesn't approve of Dr. Sombra's businessline on the side at
all, and ultimately Monk is allowed to die a hero's death, Santo is
allowed to save the day, and Fernando is allowed to shoot down the
helicopter of a fleeing Dr. Sombra, thus seeing that the baddie gets his
just desserts. And of course, the whole thing ends with Florecita
regaining her eyesight. A masked wrestler, the plight of
illegal Mexican immigrants in the US, and a mad scientist, all in the same
movie - now this sure sounds like a sure-fire winner - only, the film just
isn't, it's really more of an under-budgeted mess where various genre
elements seem to have been just thrown together without any love or
panache, which really permeates pretty much every aspect of the film, from
the underwhelming sets and locations, to the lack of atmosphere, to the
rather lackluster outside-the-ring fight scenes even. A bit of a shame, as
the concept could have made a good movie, but like that it's just a bit of
a disappointment.
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