Purely Joyful Movie!

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Frankly, I'm not much of a Santo fan, but I watched "Santo y Blue Demon contra el Dr Frankenstein" (1974) mainly to catch the lovely Angelica Chain in her movie debut. She looks great too, and even though her role is not large, she does dominate a couple of scenes. Frankly, I found the well-rehearsed wrestling matches rather boring. In real life main events, something unexpected happens maybe once or twice, when one of the combatants muffs his cue, but that doesn't happen in the movies where even the ringside commentator is obviously reading from a pre-written script. One droll development for the movie-makers, however, was the way preview audience's enjoyed Agustin Meza de la Pena's performance as Professor Ruiz. Actually de la Pena (here making his on-camera debut) was the film's production manager who stepped into the role at short notice and there are actually a few inside jokes at his expense. In the original script, Ruiz was Frankenstein sans drugs, and at the climax the good doctor changed back into his real Ruiz self. This ploy outraged preview audiences who'd grown to love the vague, bumbling professor so the transformation now ends with an abrupt cut before Ruiz can actually be recognized. (The Rise Above DVD rates 10/10).

A woman is kidnapped and her brain is switched with another woman. When the operation goes wrong the mad doctor (Irwin Franenstien, grandson of the original doctor) sends the dead woman home as walking dead who kill the people at their homes. The police are baffled. The doctor sends his men out to get Santo so he can transplant his brain into a hulking monster. Some how this will help him revive his wife who was stricken with brain cancer 80 years earlier and create an army of super men to rule the world.Oddly polished and artificial this film seems more intent on looking good and flashy rather than having an exciting plot. There are lots of polished sets that seem to be aping the James Bond super villain lairs. There's way too much talk and very little action---almost none of it any good.half way in I was completely bored- which almost never happens with similar films. They may be bad, but never boring.This is boring and only occasionally springs to life in a moment here and there.

While it's far from the worst of the movies the two luchadores co-starred in, SANTO AND BLUE DEMON VS. DR. FRANKENSTEIN may very well have been one of the most disappointing. The potential for a true classic of the genre was there; all the ingredients but one: a decent script (the downfall of far too many of these movies). Santo and/or Blue Demon grappling with Frankenstein's monster- what fan wouldn't want to see THAT...? Unfortunately, grappling (of any kind, with anyone) is kept to a minimum here and the Herculean black Golem simply lumbers around looking big and menacing. If any of the Santo/Blue Demon movies deserves to be remade, it's this one- hands down.

Innocent women are being kidnapped and used as guinea pigs for a brain transplant experiment in SANTO AND BLUE DEMON VS. DR. FRANKENSTEIN. The diabolical Dr. Frankenstein continues his quest to perfect the brain transplant operation to bring back his deceased wife at any cost - even if it means paying with the lives of others.El Santo and Blue Demon are called in to help when their friend, Alicia, becomes Dr. Frankenstein's next target. It'll take both heroes to go up against the dastardly doctor and go "mano y mano" with his super strong zombie, Golem.The is a nice mexican movie with two masked wrestler as heroes. Very cool underground entertainment, like anything you ever seen in the genre. It is a curiosity worth watching!