SANTO Y BLUE DEMON CONTRA LOS MONSTRUOS (1970) | The Wildest Lucha Libre Horror Movie Ever?

SANTO Y BLUE DEMON CONTRA LOS MONSTRUOS (1970) d. Gilberto Martínez Solares (Mexico)

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In 1970, Mexican cinema delivered one of its most delightfully chaotic spectacles with Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos, a film that perfectly captures the wild, genre-blending energy of the lucha libre boom. Starring two of Mexico’s most iconic masked wrestlers, El Santo and Blue Demon, the movie drops its legendary heroes into a plot that’s equal parts classic horror, sci-fi pulp, and pure wrestling fantasy. It’s a world where monsters roam freely, mad scientists hatch improbable schemes, and every problem can be solved with a well-timed flying drop-kick.

SANTO Y BLUE DEMON CONTRA LOS MONSTRUOS (1970) Movie Review

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Santo and Blue Demon vs. the Monsters (1970) d. Gilberto Martinez Solares (Mexico) (82 min) (2nd viewing)

In retrospect, it’s a bit strange that I haven’t gone back to watch Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos in nearly a decade and half, considering that my memory of it has always been positive. I remember sitting there on my couch in 2007, mouth hanging open the entire time, hardly believing what I was seeing, and hardly believing my good fortune. When you’ve got two masked wrestlers doing battle, not only with each other, but with El Vampiro, two vampire senoritas, the Wolf Man, Frankenstein’s monster (dubbed “Franquestain” here), the Mummy, an absolutely bonkers Creature from the Black Lagoon knock-off, “The Cyclops,” not to mention a mad scientist, his bald Miguelito Loveless assistant, and a handful of green face-painted zombies, it’s pretty hard to go wrong.