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Santo in the wax museum
You are a really mad and evil scientist and we appreciate you for that.
You have a great plan to turn people into wax statues. And it's great.
And what do you do? You kidnap the people who come to visit your wax
museum. It does not seem to us the smartest idea to go unnoticed. And
it is not, in fact.
Alfonso Corona Blake returns to direct the adventures of El Santo in a
better finished movie than its predecessors, with a better production
and direction. We are always in the field of lucha libre against the
underworld and especially it touches almost plagiarism but "Santo in
the wax museum" is better than the others we have already seen.
Charles Belden, an American writer who worked for major production
company, writes "The Mystery of the Wax Museum", which became a Warner
Bros film in 1933. Twenty years later, André De Toth remakes it
with Vincent Price as protagonists and ten years later Alfonso Corona
Blake, Fernando Galiana and Julio Porter create their version in which
they adds the Nazis, a melodrama and above all our legendary and
beloved El Santo.
Mexican actor Claudio Brook we also saw in "El Ángel
Exterminador" plays Dr.Karol. A scientist who has a wax museum full of
important statues. There is Stalin, Gary Cooper, Frankenstein and many
others, (some mannequins and other actors fixed). And most of all there
are visitors that disappear into thin air. Susana is instead a
photographer/journalist who wants to do a report about the museum,
whose text for some unknown reason is written by her sister's boyfriend.
Professor Galvan is a dear friend of Susana and above all of El Santo
who is engaged in a case and in the lucha libre. As always, anyway. And
how you can easily imagine Susana disappears in the museums
subterranean while the evil Karol convinces El Santo of being a victim
of a plot. The problem is that El Enmascarado de la Plata believes him
and only Ricardo (Susana's brother-in-law) opens his eyes to the truth.
Karol during the Second World War was a Nazi soldier. Then he escaped
to Britain where a serious laboratory accident burned his chest and a
hand. But Karol is once again able to convince our hero who is also
spied with the mythical TV. And it takes a lot of time before El Santo
realizes Karol's evilness.
As a canvas our hero stumble before beat the bad guys (some monsters
created by Karol!) find time to win a match, free everyone and flies
away on his sports car.
As already mentioned, "Santo en el museo de wera" has a better
production that even renounces the night effect and actually turns into
the dark. Frankenstein's face on the poster is part of the many
inaccuracies that with the narrative holes and the absurdity of
fighting make this film not only a pleasing "B Movie" but one of the
best and most fortunate adventures of the Enmascarado de la Plata.