Santo in the Wax Museum (DVD) Reviews
Newest Review: ... I guess I needed to see a Santo film just to know what they're like, but I won't need to see another one. I'm not too happy ... more
... with the DVD release. The picture quality isn't great, but this might well be the best surviving print. But I don't like the way it's packaged - the 'Before Nacho Libre there was Santo!' label on the front is patronising and suggests this release is aimed at morons who like to sneer at old films. Yes, there's humour to be found here, but a funny-bad film should be celebrated, not denigrated. Given a choice between Night of the Bloody Apes and Lord of the Rings, I know which I'd go for. Marketing films as being 'so...more
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Santo in the Wax Museum (DVD): "I have to wrestle!" (997 words)by - written on 08/12/08 (Very useful, 149 readings)
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A review of the Yume Pictures DVD, currently selling for about £7 on amazon. Santo was a masked Mexican wrestler who appeared in an awful lot of films - possibly as many as 50 - from the early 60s onwards. His films combine wrestling with low-tech crime fighting. A few of these elusive superhero/sports movies have now been released on DVD in the UK. The one I happened to buy was Santo in the Wax Museum, made in 1963. Yeah - a wax museum. That means that anyone with even a fleeting knowledge of horror or exploitation cinema will be able to guess a) what's going on; b) who the villain is; and c) (roughly) what his eventual fate will be. Waxworks have ... Read the complete review
