Santo vs. la hija de Frankestein (1972)

A mad female scientist needs Santo's blood for a youth serum; and she has Frankenstein's reliable old monster to help her get it.

Director:

Miguel M. Delgado

Writer:

Fernando Osés (story)

Stars:

Santo, Gina Romand, Anel

Cast

Cast overview:
Santo	...	Santo (as Santo El Enmascarado de Plata)
Gina Romand	...	Dr. Freda Frankenstein
Anel	...	Norma
Roberto Cañedo	...	Dr. Yanco
Carlos Agostí	...	Don Elias
Sonia Fuentes	...	Elsa
Carlos Suárez	...	Tuerto
Gerardo Zepeda	...	Ursus / Truxon
Carlos Bravo y Fernández	...	Carcelero (as Carlos Bravo)
Goliat Ayala	...	Luchador
Ismael Ramirez	...	Luchador
Enrique Llanes	...	Narrator

Storyline

Dr. Frankenstein's female descendant is an excellent mad scientist in her own right. At a ripe old age, she discovered that the blood of the supernatural wrestling hero, Santo, is a youth elixir. For years she has been periodically injecting herself, and her henchmen, with a serum made from the blood she wiped from Santo's nose. But now, her body is so saturated with the serum that she needs frequent painful injections to maintain her youth. Before the serum stops working completely, she needs to experiment on more of Santo's blood. Instead of attending another wrestling match, and hoping for another nosebleed, she has her lackeys kidnap Santo's girlfriend. Santo, of course, comes looking for her. What he'll find is a spooky underground cave, filled with corpses, bats and flying daggers. A half-man-half-gorilla will cause him trouble. But his ultimate battle will be with Frankenstein's old monster, yet again brought back to life.

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Plot Keywords:

frankenstein | wrestling | bat | wrestling match | mad scientist | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Details

Country:

Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

10 August 1972 (Mexico)

Also Known As:

La hija de Frankenstein

Filming Locations:

Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Company Credits

Production Co:

Cinematográfica Calderón S.A.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

[last lines, subtitled version]
Wrestling Announcer: [off-screen] The new World Medium Weight Champion, El Santo! A huge ovation. Screams from the audience. They want to jump into the ring and lift him up in arms. Here's the new World Medium Weight Champion! El Santo!

User Reviews

Deliriously Silly Cheese

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.