Santo contra los Zombies (also known as Santo vs. the Zombies) is a 1961 Mexican superhero film directed by Benito Alazraki. It depicts the popular character El Santo in a pulp-style film.
Plot
After the police are unable to stop a crime wave by zombies, they turn to Santo for help.
Cast
- Santo as Santo / the Saint
- Lorena Velázquez as Gloria Sandoval / Gloria Rutherford (English dubbed version)
- Armando Silvestre as Lt. Sanmartin / Lt. Savage
- Jaime Fernández as Det. Rodriguez
- Dagoberto Rodríguez as Det. Chief Almada
- Irma Serrano "La Tigresa" as Det. Isabel
- Carlos Agostí as Genaro / Uncle Herbert
- Ramón Bugarini as Rogelio / Roger, the male nurse
- Fernando Osés as Dorrell, zombified wrestler
- Eduardo Bonada
- Eduardo Silvestre
- Julián de Meriche
- Alejandro Cruz as Black Shadow, a wrestler (as Black Shadow)
- Gory Guerrero as Wrestler (as Gori Guerrero)
- Sugi Sito as Wrestler
- El Gladiador as Wrestler
Release
This was one of the earliest Santo films and the first to be distributed in the US.
Reception
Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle said, "The adventure movie with its comic-book plot, hero, and villain is fun to watch in an MST-3K spirit".