Spanish with subs.
Who could possibly pass on a film with this title? Not me for sure. There
is a fine print of this which pleases me to no end. That some company thinks
it was worth their time to clean it up and distribute it to a fanbase of
likely very odd people who eat up these Mexican trash films or Luchador which
is the proper term. There were hundreds made from the 1950s through the 1960s
and I have no idea how many of them have been preserved. So each one should
be treated as a mini treasure from a long ago film genre that disappeared
with modern times and global markets. Wrestling super heroes in particular
were very popular for reasons that escape me - there is Santo of course and
the lesser-known Blue Demon and the two female wrestlers in this film who
made five films together. It's a genre on to itself and only made in Mexico.
Though it is great that films like this are still around, that doesn't mean
it is a good film. It really isn't which is a pity. It is a bit stodgy and
slow and director René Cardona (Senior) has a habit of staying on
the same shot past its expiration date. But to its credit it has some excellent
female wrestling matches in the ring which look surprisingly legitimate considering
the two actresses had no experience, a Fu Manchu like villain and an Aztec
Mummy that is a combination of a traditional mummy with a visage from The
Phantom of the Opera. He unfortunately stays in his coffin until late in
the film because he is rather cool and can turn into a bat or a tarantula.
Dead men are being thrown out of cars at night - but this is not a Mexican
sport - but the Black Dragons who have tortured them and no longer have use
for them. They are led by Prince Fujiyata (Ramón Bugarini) with his
long moustache, robes and his two judo master sisters who will certainly
not win any beauty prizes. These dead men were all part of an expedition
to an Aztec pyramid, and they returned with an Aztec code that showed where
a treasure was buried. Fujiyata says if he can find the treasure, he can
take over the world. Oh, really, that again. The remaining archeologist
brings in the two female wrestlers - Gloria Venus (Lorena Velázquez)
and her tag-team mate Golden Ruby (Elizabeth Campbell - the top SOS leader
in Peligroso Mujeras aka Danger Girls). They along with two male cops try
and keep the codex safe by dividing it among them.
But little do they know that the mastermind Fujiyata has installed large
impossible to miss cameras in all the rooms in the apartment so he can hear
and see what they are saying. But no one notices the cameras and it never
occurs to them that something is up when the bad guys are always a step ahead
of them. Eventually, they do get to the tomb and the mummy, who was the lover
of the woman sacrificed on the alter with a necklace. He was interred alive
into a coffin in order to protect her and the necklace - a little like good
old Imhotep. And the fun begins. It just takes too long and the women never
actually wrestle the Mummy, but they do the two judo queens for about 15
minutes. 90 minutes.
