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El Santo, the luchadoro who wrestles vampire evil into submission in "Samson and the Vampire Women" (1962), is back--and this time he takes on the villain responsible for a rash of abductions plaguing his fair city. Fortunately, crime-fighting doesn't seem to interfere with his scheduled wrestling bouts as the villain conveniently waits until Samson is free to interfere with his transformation of his most recent victim--a pretty, young photographer--into a gruesome "Panther Girl."
Titled "Santo en el Museo de cera" in the original release, this 1963 gem is a well-known contribution to the Mexihorror film genre. As with "Vampire Women," "Sampson in the Wax Museum" was directed by Alfonso Corona Blake. Many north of the border would be unaware of the delights of these two classic Samson films if it weren't for K. Gordon Murray. His small studio in Florida, Soundlab Inc., reworked these and many other films for English-speaking audiences, adding the hilariously stilted dubbing that only makes them that much more fun to watch.
