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La Venganza de las Mujeres Vampiro
The Vengeance of the Vampire Women
Las Mujeres Vampiras Asesinas
Mexico 1970
produced by
Jorge García Besné for Películas Latinoamericanas, Cinematográfica Flama
directed by Federico Curiel
starring Santo, Gina Romand, Víctor Junco, Norma Lazareno, Aldo Monti, Patricia Ferrer, Alfonso Munguía, Federico Falcón, Yolanda Ponce, Lucy Linares, Ivone Clay, Fernando Osés, Carlos Suárez, Nathanael León (as Frankestein), El Rebelde Rojo, René Barrera, Aurelio Salinas, Domingo Bazán, Carlos Bravo y Fernández, Federico Curiel, Roberto Ramírez Garza
story by Fernando Osés, screenplay by Jorge García Besné, music by Gustavo César Carrión
El Santo
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Mad scientist Dr. Brancov (Víctor Junco) finds it a splendid idea to
bring vampire Countess Mayra (Gina Romand), who has been staked 200 years
ago, back to the realm of the living. So it's of course not lng before
weird killings all over town baffle the police and especially Lt. Robles
(Aldo Monti) and his reporter girlfriend Paty (Norma Lazareno). But
really, the Countess has other priorities, to kill the descendant of the
man who staked her, professional (masked) wrestler Santo. Thing is,
whatever the Countess throws at him, including hypnotizing his opponent in
the ring to kill him, Santo doesn't die easily, quite the contrary, with
each attempt, the Countess gives away more clues that leads to her, clues
that Santo and his friend Robles follow. Ultimately though, it's a rather
reckless attempt at going undercover by Paty that gets both her and Robles
kidnapped, and thanks to a radio device hidden in Paty's lipstick Santo
manages to catch up, take out Brancov and his men - also with the help of
a mindless giant the good doctor kept in his dungeon -, and blow up the
lab, and then they all go battle Mayra and her vampire women, a fight
that's only ended with the arrival of daylight when all the vampires have
to return to their coffins, and Santo and company burn the coffins of the
vampire women and stake Mayra, who dissolves to dust almost immediately. Despite
the title, this movie is not a sequel to Santo
contra las Mujeres Vampiro/Samson
and the Vampire Women (1962), one of Santo's earliest successes -
but that's not to say it can't be an enjoyable romp all of its own. And
that, Vengeance of
the Vampire Women sure is, a lively tale that combines late
1960s/early 70s chic with elements from both Hammer
vampire fare and Euro horror, fattened up with some rather excitingly
filmed wrestling matches, all combined to a pastiche that admittedly isn't
free of inherent silliness - but then again you wouldn't expect less from
a masked wrestler vampire movie -, but that offers solid mindless genre
entertainment throughout.
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