Santo returns on May 13
in three classic horror-themed adventures courtesy of VCI Entertainment.
Santo (aka: Rodolfo
Guzman Huerta), the legendary masked wrestler from Mexico, subject of comic
books and star of over 50 films featuring his “super hero” persona of El Santo
is every bit as popular today (some 30 years after his death) as he was during
the glory days of his film career.
With four already
released on DVD (Santo Contra la Hija de Frankenstein, Santo Contra Los Jinetes del
Terror, Santo y Blue Demon Contra Dracula y el Hombre Lobo and Santo
y Blue Demon Contra el Dr. Frankenstein) with their original
Spanish-language tracks, it’s time for the series to expand with three more of
this film vault collectible treasures.
First up is the 1969 film
release of director René Cardona’s Santo en el Tesoro de Dracula, which
features both time travel (MGM’s The Time Machine was released in
1960 so the invention of “El Orificio del Tiempo” was fair game) and the legend of Dracula (the Hammer horror
cycle was going strong during this period with Christopher Lee as Dracula),
which made this tale of the lost treasure of Dracula the perfect combination to
thrill Santo’s legions of fans.
Aldo Monti starred as
Dracula, with the sultry Argentinian Noelia Noel (Carnival of Crime, Night
of the Bloody Apes) on hand as Luisa, Santo’s girlfriend and
time-travelling victim of the bloodsucker ... can our hero save her from the
fiend, win the big wrestling match and restore the space-time continuum by
film’s end?
Next we find Santo
en la Venganza de la Momia (also directed by René Cardona) and released
in 1971. After a championship double-team match in
Mexico City, our hero heads out on an expedition to explore some ancient
ruins.
This adventure will prove
to be fatal for most of those taking part as they unearth the tomb of Prince
Nonoc, a cursed and rotting mummy! The
action is neatly bookend with a titanic death match at the film’s conclusion
which pits Santo against the La Momia!
Lastly, Santo
en la Venganza del la Llorna (aka: Vengeance of the Crying Woman) is a
1974 film release directed by Miguel M. Delgado (who wrote and directed several
of the Cantinflas comedies).
Santo is once again on an
expedition to explore another lost tomb — the tomb of Eugenia Esparza — with
the noble purpose of using any treasure found to help small children.
When not helping his friends battle the
deal-with-the-devil evil mummy that they’ve raised from the dead, Santo and his
sidekick, Idem (Cuban-born World Welterweight boxing champion José Mantequilla
Nápoles), have to take on real-life villains who are out to steal the treasure
for themselves!
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