Santo vs. Frankenstein's Daughter

1972
Santo vs. Frankenstein's Daughter
5.7| 1h37m| en| More Info
Released: 10 August 1972 Released
Producted By: Cinematográfica Calderón S.A.
Country: Mexico
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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Dr. Frankenstein and her assistant, Dr. Yanco, are going to bring one of their experiments to life in Santo Vs. Frankenstein's Daughter. She intends to use a monster named Ursus to do her evil bidding. Using a youth serum to retain their vitality, the doctors set their sights upon none other than El Santo. They need his super human blood to regenerate a stronger youth serum. They kidnap Santo's goddaughter, Norma and lure him into Dr. Frankenstein's lab where he is captured and enslaved. Will Santo make it out alive?

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GL84 A masked wrestler and his girlfriend find themselves abducted by a mad scientist to replenish her diminishing youth serum made from his blood and have to battle through her assortment of monsters and henchmen to escape.One of the better examples of this kind of film, filled with all sorts of good stuff from the delightfully campy and enjoyable mad scientist's lab found in those old-school classics, a creepy underground lair that, while outfitted with cobweb-riddled corpses in coffins and flying bats shrieking in the darkness looks to be as cramped and detailed as a backyard home movie, and all sorts of brawls and fights from the lead, despite the fact that they're all pretty repetitive and pretty much consist of fist-chops or punches and hip-throws all over the room into the furniture. I can't say the plot makes a lot of sense (I'm only guessing on that end, it was in Spanish yet from the looks of it all, I think I'm right in that regard) but the action here more than makes up for it, turning this into one of Santo's better entries.Rated Unrated/PG-13: Violence and mild Language.
poe426 Before you get your hopes up, let me state for the record that Santo does NOT grapple Frankenstein's daughter... Although he's slightly out of character in this one (he may have been bored, or simply uninterested in the goings-on), he does manage from time to time to get into a scrap. Said scraps are the saving grace(s) of this one. Like many of the color films in the Santo series (at least, the ones that I've seen), SANTO VS. FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER is unimpressive in the extreme (but I can't bring myself to give it less than a 6 on a scale of 1 to 10). The cinematography, in particular, is underwhelming- odd, when one considers the visual potential of these kind of movies. I've always thought that Spider-man, whose mask looks suspiciously like the mask worn by El Santo (especially the eye-holes, which are identical), may have been inspired, to some degree, by The Silvermask Man (and THE WASP WOMAN). Spidey has gotten his just due. Too bad Santo never did.
Michael_Elliott Santo vs. Frankenstein's Daughter (1971) * (out of 4) Freda Frankenstein is well over 100 years old and she's starting to feel unhappy about being old. Thankfully the mean monster is on hand to help her try and get some of Santo's blood so that she can be young again. I must admit that I'm not a fan of these Santo movies and I've yet to really understand their charm. I love seeing monsters as much as anyone else but I still don't understand the entertainment value some see in these films. I certainly wish I liked them more but I just can't. I think my pain problem is with Santo who I just can't see as a hero and I'm also not entertained by the wrestling scenes. Some of the monster moments are cute in a "C" movie way but these sequences are far between.
Brian Lindsey The most fun I've had with a Santo picture since "Santo Contra Las Mujeres Vampiros" (a.k.a. "Samson Vs. The Vampire Women"). This one's delightfully loopy... Gina Romand's over-the-top histrionics, combined with Santo's energetic daring-do and accompanied by a bizarre, Wall of Voodoo-goes-lounge-lizard score, makes for solid 'So Bad It's Good' entertainment. One scene in particular, in which Romand gives injections of youth serum to an assembly of elderly, decrepit geezers who then start writhing and howling in agony, had me convulsing with laughter. Interestingly enough our stoic hero loosens up in this one - he cheekily flirts with his girlfriend's sister and even blurts out a curse word! It's also bloodier than one expects for a Santo movie; the fights with the monsters are more brutal than is customary for such kiddie-friendly fare. The fact that Santo battles the exact same simian-human hybrid that appears in 1968's "Night Of The Bloody Apes" - created by the same method and played by the same actor/stunt man in identical makeup - begins to establish some kind of weird pelicula universe where these goofy plots are somehow all intertwined.