Blue
Demon makes his second screen appearance and has his first starring role in this fun Mexican
monster movie. A mad scientist (Mario
Orea) is on the loose turning people into werewolves via injection. Professor Carral (Jaime Fernandez) decrees he
must be stopped and turns to the great luchador, Blue Demon for help.
What
makes the monster scenes so much fun is that they blatantly rip off the old Universal
monster movies. The transformation
scenes are a lot like The Wolf Man and the professor is clearly modeled on
Edward Van Sloan’s Van Helsing in Tod Browning’s Dracula. The filmmakers probably wanted their werewolf
to resemble the Universal pictures, but it winds up looking more like the one
in the 1956 flick, The Werewolf.
Things
kick off immediately with a great werewolf attack. What I liked about the
werewolves in this movie is that they revert back to human form not when they
are shot by a silver bullet, but when Blue Demon body slams them. That right there tells you it’s going to be a
better than average werewolf flick.
The
film contains two wrestling scenes. The first
one is pretty ordinary. In fact, the
camera is stationary for much of the time. The second match is great though. It’s here when the mad scientist dopes Blue
Demon’s opponent with wolf juice and he turns into a werewolf right in the
middle of the match, causing pandemonium in the arena!
So
what if things get a little dull whenever Blue Demon isn’t on screen? That kind of goes with the territory when it
comes to these things. Besides, it’s
hard to hate any movie that combines Mexican wrestling, werewolves, mad
scientists, a haunted castle (that looks like it came right out of the bottom
of a fishbowl), and a mob of angry torch-wielding villagers. All I know is that when Blue Demon is body slamming
lycanthropes, it’s damned good times.
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