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Nuestro Cine Clasico: Santo y Blue Demon en La Atlantida/Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos

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I don't speak Spanish and couldn't understand a word of this two-feature DVD (there are no subtitles) but I can still confidently state that Santo and Blue Demon versus the Monsters is one of the best films I have ever seen. It stars six different monsters: Mummy, Cyclops, Vampiro, Lady Vampiro, Wolfman and Frankenstein. Because the action occurs in Mexico the monsters look a little different than they do in America. I especially liked the Mexican version of Dracula.

It is also good to see Cyclops getting some screen time. He has been woefully underrepresented on the American screen.

Monsters is black and white, but that is okay. As usual there are some beautiful females, both good and bad, in the film.

I heartily recommend this film for fans of either monster or rassling movies. A friend from Puerto Rico tells me that he remembers watching this film on Sunday afternoon on TV, so you know that Santo is the real deal. He died in 1984, and except for one moment of weakness a week before he died he never once removed his mask in public.

Santo is like a Mexican James Bond in that respect. He is also immaculately dressed. Even when he is beating up bad guys he usually wears a nice sports jacket that matches his mask. No wonder the girls go crazy over him.

What a man.

Masked Mexican Wreslers, Grade B Movie Monsters, Atlantis, fight scenes in moving vehicles, great acting, beautiful women. Where were the Oscars when these films came out?

Undoubtably the best movies made by luchador legends el Santo and Blue Demon were made prior to 1968.Santo vs.The Vampire Women and Blue Demon and The Shadow of The Bat are classics of the Mexiluchahero genre.But Santo contra Blue Demon en la Atlantida and Santo y Blue Demon contra las Monstruos(both made in 1969) are two pretty good later entries.The first film is a lot of fun with a comic book-like plot that has an ex-Nazi scientist headquartered on Atlantis planning on taking over the world.During the course of the movie the Blue Demon is brainwashed and he and el Santo throw down, just like the heroes in a Marvel comic book from that era would, before teaming up to beat the bad guys.The second film is the more famous of the pair and if you like cheesy fun this is the film for you.This is a high concept movie that's title says it all.The two wrestling superstars take on a wolfman,a vampire and his two sexy lingerie-clad consorts,a reptilian cyclops,a mummy,and the Frankenstein(here called Franquestein)monster.Or should I say Santo takes them on.In the previous film Blue Demon is brainwashed and spends most of his screentime opposing "the man in the silver mask".This time out he's kidnapped by the bad guys who substitute an android double for the real luchador.The real Blue Demon does come through in the film's climax as he and Santo fight the villians in a free for all.The production values in these two films aren't as high here as they were in earlier entries.In some places they look like some of Don Glut's early student films and there's a decided lack of atmosphere in the second film.Still both films are entertaining and worth a look.

Santo and B.D. vs. the Monsters is HILARIOUS good fun, but we saw it in color on a big screen at a university showing; imdb says it's in color; AMAZON says it's in color.

IT'S IN BLACK AND WHITE on this disc. That's just wrong. It sucketh in black and white. It's not supposed to be in black and white. Amazon, change your specs on this DVD!