René Cardona

Santa Claus, high above the North Pole in his cloud-borne castle equipped with more surveillance devices than the Impossible Mission Force, prepares to deliver presents on Christmas night... (imdb)

This cheap Mexican horror film is a remake of Cardona's Doctor of Doom (1962), spiced with nudity, medical footage, women wrestling, and cheap gore shots. Female masked wrestler Lucy (who looks like the devil) beats the stuffing out of an opponent - a wrestling lady with a red costume like Catwoman. Lucy finally hurls her opponent from the squared circle and knocks her out cold. Although Lucy's cop boyfriend tries to convince her that it's all part of the show, Lucy can no longer handle the stre (imdb)

If you've ever longed for a movie about wrestling women who take on various monsters, this is it! Xochitl, the mummy, can turn into a snake or a bat, which is difficult to get half-Nelsons on. Loreita, the Golden Ruby, joins her sister to battle the evil Prince Fugiyata and her Oriental female wrestlers. The mummy is also female and on the good side of the struggle. The lady wrestlers earlier appeared in "Doctor of Doom." (imdb)

A mad scientist terrorizes a city by kidnapping young women with his ape-man Gomar and then using them as subjects in sadistic brain transplant experiments. A female wrestler whose sister was one of the victims swears vengeance against the Mad Doctor. (imdb)

In this adventure, Santo is a scientist who has funded his research with his victories on the ring. With the aid of his friend, Dr. Sepúlveda, he has created a Time machine that allows the user to "experience" the life of an ancestor. Santo's girlfriend Luisa, daughter of Dr. Sepúlveda, decides to test the machine and she is sent back in time to Colonial times, where her ancestor was the victim of Count Drácula and she discovers where he buried his treasure. (imdb)

A mad scientist is wanting to create a race of super gill men. He uses the glands of wrestlers because they are "perfect". Wrestlers are winding up dead all over Acapulco so the call goes out for that mysterious crime fighter BATWOMAN! (imdb)

The famous story of the rugby team whose plane crashes in the Andes is exploited in this lurid drama that focuses on the fact that the young men were forced to eat their dead companions to survive. (allmovie.com)

The film opens with the recovery of the body of the Strangler (Roberto Canedo), who had died at the hands of the police, at the conclusion of the first film. The disfigured killer is taken to the city morgue for what turns out to be a brief lay-over. Reading of the killer's death in the newspaper, Tor (Gerardo Zepeda), the Strangler's assistant, heads for the morgue to recover his master's body. The Strangler, it seems, isn't actually dead... (imdb)

A mysterious killer has been strangling women in a variety theater, and the police decide to bring Santo into the investigation. Santo suspects the killer is hiding undercover as one of the theater employees and must discover his true identity before more women are murdered.

The movie starts when a group of lepers escape from the sanatorium they have been locked and start to terrorize people of the nearby town. Knowing that the lepers only want to be free, the Sheriff (Julio Aldama) manages to control the population's fears. However, soon the lepers begin a criminal rampage and the mob wants nothing but revenge. The Sheriff still doubts the lepers are responsible of the crimes, so in order to avoid a lynching he calls Santo, the legendary crime fighter for help. (imdb)

This is a literal retelling of the Crying Woman legend, present in many Latin American countries, a symbol of the native woman who "betrayed" her people by becoming the mistress of a conquistador, and also of the "bad mother" -in this case, a VERY bad mother, "a la Medea"- who kills the children she had with her Spanish lover. Taking parts from Carmen Toscano's stage play, the film is set in contemporary México, but goes back a few centuries to tell Llorona's sad story. (imdb)

Actually a sequel to OPERATION 67, the film again places Santo as a combination wrestler and agent for Interpol. In TREASURE, he continues his partnership with fellow agent Jorge Rubio (Jorge Rivero). (imdb)

In a radical departure from fighting werewolves, vampires, mummies and re-animated Nazis from Atlantis, Santo teams up with studly Jorge Rivera and becomes a wrasslin' James Bond on a mission to bust up an international counterfeiting ring controlled by a female MR. BIG. For the rabid Santo fan, this film has all the expected elements: arena matches, the mandatory musical number (almost all his films have one), exotic cars, babes and plenty of wrasslin' around with bad guys. (imdb)

An unusual entry in the series, "Santo contra Capulina" (1969), has no wrestling scenes, although it does feature quite a few rough-house fights in which the antagonists throw each other into huge stacks of empty cardboard boxes. (imdb)

Several mysterious deaths are attributed to an ancient stone idol. (imdb)

Don Juan and Don Luis return to Seville after a year's absence to conclude and verify a bet. Don Juan returns to court Doña Inés and Don Luis to marry Doña Ana de Pantoja.When Don Luis sees that he loses the bet, he returns to challenge Don Juan to do an even greater misdeed.

When Mexican wrestler and superhero Santo and his crew disturb the long-lost tomb of a mummified Aztec warrior, they unleash a curse that begins claiming their lives one by one. (imdb)

The film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel about the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. (imdb)