El Santo and Mexican Wrestling Horror movies

[kingdom warrior]

Hands down my Favorite Genre. I grew up seeing the Luchadores on the Big screen My Dad and Mom would take me to the movies to see El Santo,Blue Demon and Mil Mascaras...I grew up a hardcore fan. I still love these movies to this day....

El Santo did many movies in which he fought,Zombies,Mummys.Dracula,Frankenstein,The Wolfman and many more if you've never seen them October is a great month to try them out......

http://slam.canoe.ca/WrestlingImagesS/santo.jpg

http://www.horror-wood.com/salsa.2.jpg

http://www.kinoart.net/layout/data/9588.jpg

http://www.filmposter.net/posters2/santo_estrangulator.jpg

http://images.google.com/url?q=http://www.santostreet.com/posterpix/santohijaF.jpg

http://emartshops.com/santoandfriends/images/santovslaslobas

http://emartshops.com/santoandfriends/images/profanadores

http://emartshops.com/santoandfriends/images/mummies

http://emartshops.com/santoandfriends/images/santovsloszombies

http://www.santoandfriends.com/elmundodelosmuertos.jpg

http://www.santoandfriends.com/campeones.jpg

There are so many movies.......

[toys2cool]

wow never seen those,They look pretty cool though,all of them are in Spanish right?

[kingdom warrior]

Yes they are but newer releases now have them with English subtitles.....Plus they're really action orientated so really you can follow it easy.

[toys2cool]

Yes they are but newer releases now have them with English subtitles.....Plus they're really action orientated so really you can follow it easy.

cool thanx for the info,nah I know perfect Spanish but it just gets a little annoying sometimes :grin:

[kingdom warrior]

LOL! I hear ya I'm the Same...I usually have the subtitles on when I watch my spanish flicks because everyone has their way of saying things that sometimes I don't get.

[thunderbolt]

Santos and the Vampire Women is one of my faves on MST3K. Blockbuster online has a few available that I am waiting to get.

[fallensaviour]

I've never heard of them before.But they look pretty cool.If I ever come across them I'd watch them for sure.

[palitoy]

Count me as a huge fan of El Santo and knock offs like SuperArgo. I've even managed to catch a few of those on UHF channels really late at night, Santo was getting kind of old but they're still fun.

[davidb]

Samson (Santo) and the Vampire Women was great. I've wanted to see some of the old movies, but have never tracked them down.

Isn't there a new movie coming out along this same line? I'm thinking it's got Blue Demon Jr. in it, but it's been a while since I saw it talked about so I'm not sure.

[palitoy]

Rob Zombie has a project called "Superbeasto" that is essentially an animated homage to the wrestling film.

[aquatroy]

I feel a torrent search coming on.

[kingdom warrior]

I Haven't heard anything about a Blue Demon Jr. movie but...here's a project that Mil Mascaras was working on........

Mil Mascaras vs. The Aztec Mummy - Welcome to the official web site (http://www.mmvsam.com/)

[batmanmc]

those are cool . i love those.

[kingdom warrior]

A good way of seeing these movies is if your Local library has movies they might carry them so you can actually take them out and check if they intrest you.My Local Library has a whole bunch of them so I've been able to check them out before buying them.....

[davidb]

I Haven't heard anything about a Blue Demon Jr. movie but...here's a project that Mil Mascaras was working on........

Mil Mascaras vs. The Aztec Mummy - Welcome to the official web site (http://www.mmvsam.com/)

That's it. In the shot where the luchadors are walking, I saw Blue Demon in the front and thought he was the star for some reason. Still, if it's got Mil, Blue Demon, and Hijo del Santo in it (and I think I spotted Dos Caras Jr, too - or is that the original Dos Caras?) I'm definitely going to have to track this one down.

[kingdom warrior]

That's the original Dos Caras his Son is much Taller and more buffed...Don't know if they ever released the movie.

[phil]

The Santo movies and the whole genre can be a lot of fun. I like the wild imagination of
the film makers.

[Dr. Phibes]

When I was little, my friend and I would watch these on a spanish channel... we had no idea what they were saying. I remember we would cut eye holes in paper sacks and collor them up with markers, then we'd tuck our pants into our socks and make like we had boots on. I hadn't thought of these movies in many years.

[kingdom warrior]

When I was little, my friend and I would watch these on a spanish channel... we had no idea what they were saying. I remember we would cut eye holes in paper sacks and collor them up with markers, then we'd tuck our pants into our socks and make like we had boots on. I hadn't thought of these movies in many years.
LOL! That reminds me of when i was a kid my mom would got me the full face winter mask and of course I would turn it into a Luchadors mask tie a Towel around my neck and run around the house to my mothers dismay..:grin:

[Hector]

I really love these flicks as a kid.

As many of you know, I lived in Mexico from ages 7-14...and we all used to go to the movie theater and watch all these luchadores movies on Saturday morning matinee...it was lots of fun. Then after the movies, we all gathered around and played soccer all day, lol.

Those were the days.

I loved el Santo, but my favorite was always Blue Demon...I used to call him bow-legged Demon, lol.

Now as an adult, I don't like them as much because while the concept if very cool (luchadores vs monsters, etc,), I find the actual fights tedious and repetitive...they go on, and on, and on, and on...

Ah...but those were the days.

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