646f9e108c Santo, the crime-fighting wrestler, battles an alien monster who is controlled by an evil madman bent on taking over the world. An evil scientist turns microbes from a moon-rock into large, flesh-hungry blobs in a fiendish world-domination plot. Will the masked wrestler Santo defeat this madman and his lackeys, and shield humanity from blob-snack doom? You bet your sweet ass, he will…<br/><br/>This 1973 release(some sources cite itbeing made in 1971) is a mostly par later entry in the Mexican Santo series. If you&#39;re already familiar with these films, then you pretty much know what to expect…a distinctly Mexican recipe fusing cheesy, high-camp sci-fi/horror thrills with cheesy, high-camp wrestling-hero action. The pulsating, slowly moving &quot;blobs&quot; are nothing more than guys crawling around under Naugahyde blankets(seriously…this one serves up some of the most ghetto monster effects ever lensed). Amazingly, these beasts dissolve their victims&#39; flesh clear to the bone, yet leave their clothing entirely intact! Preposterous and juvenile twaddle, indeed…but in the right mood, this is a harmless barrel of old-school belly-laughs. Finally watched this film the other night. It was hilarious. If you&#39;re not familiar with the Mexican made Santo films, Santo is a masked wrestler hero. He has appeared in many films, this is the first of them I&#39;ve seen. In this one he struts around shirtless in a mask, tights and gaudy red cape. Santo is summoned by the authorities much the way Batman is to deal with master criminals on the loose. In this case it&#39;s a scientist who tries to control blob like giant space microbes. The costume for the blob is a bunch of guys covered in a camouflage colored plastic sheet. You can see the obvious shapes of the men under the sheets when the blob attacks.<br/><br/>The fight sequences between Santos and the bad guys are dragged out and badly choreographed. They&#39;re unintentionally funny at first, then seem to go on forever. Aside from those scenes the rest of the film is classic &quot;so bad it&#39;s good&#39; fun.
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