#60s horror

[jihyoshunter]

Who can relate

[horrorgeek1313]

The Brain that Wouldn't Die (1962)

The sets for the production were all housed in the basement of a New York hotel.

[thanosthedadtitan]

1963 half-sheet movie poster for the cult horror film Monstrosity, also known as The Atomic Brain.

[thevideodungeon]

Doctor of Doom (1963)

Luchasploitation is always an interesting genre of film, presenting a world where professional wrestlers are somewhere between secret agents and superheroes, battling crime syndicates, mad scientists, and of course, Aztec Mummies. And are also quite often built upon the star power of specific, usually masked, wrestler. The Las Luchadoras films are a little different.

The big obvious difference is that the crime fighting wrestlers are women, and as such do not wear masks because the studio wouldn’t want to hide a lead actress’s face. But the less obvious difference to the casual viewer is that unlike El Santo et al., the lead actresses here are not actually wrestlers. For reasons that are still an issue today, they cast curvaceous actresses and then had stunt doubles do all the wrestling. Basically the producers of the “Wrestling Women” films made their casting decisions to highlight the “women” aspect rather than the “wrestling.”

Overall though, if you enjoy this specific niche genre, it’s a fun little movie. You have an over-the-top villain with no clear motivation for his actions—and a really cool look—some wrestlers who are just kinda given authority by the police, and of course, dramatic in-ring action… also a masked luchadora with the brain of a gorilla. However, as I said, because the lead actresses were not trained wrestlers, the action scenes can be either a bit timid, or shot in a way that is clearly trying to hide the switch to stunt doubles.

 5/10

[sweet-pandora]

They hate when you serve hammer horror femme fatale characters

[uknow]

Carole Cole as Chris

The Mad Room (1969)

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[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Jellyfish Man - Sting of Death (1966)