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A year after making the very successful "Santo Contra las Mujeres Vampiro", director Alfonso Corona Blake once again was reunited with most of that film's crew and directed this new adventure of the famed Mexican wrestler turned Superhero. "Santo en el Museo De Cera" would be the title of this story that would continue Santo's image as a fantastic warrior that uses his wrestling techniques to help the police and fight against evil and criminals. Obviously inspired by the 1953 horror classic "House of Wax" (starring Vincent Price), this Santo adventure repeated the formula of action, mystery and Gothic horror with very good results, and along "Santo Contra las Mujeres Vampiro" remains as one of the best Santo movies of his early career.
In this movie, a series of kidnappings begin to occur near a very popular Wax Museum. After a reporter of an important newspaper disappears while doing research for an article about the Museum, all the clues seem to point to the owner, Dr. Karol (Claudio Brook). However, to everyone's surprise, Karol asks crime-fighter Santo (himself) for protection as he fears someone wants to kill him. While Santo accepts to protect Dr. Karol, he begins his own investigation about the mysterious kidnappings, and soon he'll discover what's hidden in the Wax Museum.
Written by Corona Blake himself (adapting a story by Fernando Galiana and Julio Porter), this film once again makes Santo a superhero similar to Batman, that can be called to fight crime (most Santo films were adaptations of comic books, where Santo the real life wrestler became Santo the fantasy hero). While this makes for a poor development of Santo as character (this would change in future Santo films), it makes the adventure itself the focus of the story, making "El Museo De Cera" one of the most atmospheric and captivating of them, as well as the one that gave Santo one of his best villains in his career.
Like in "Santo Contra las Mujeres Vampiro", the direction by Corona Blake is subtle but effective. A very visual movie, the mix of action film with Gothic horror sounds unlikely but once again Corona and cinematographer José Ortiz Ramos (who would create some of the best Bava-influenced imagery in Mexican horror) craft something that feels both haunting and creepy. It's not really a movie meant to be scary, but a movie meant to be enjoyed as a fun action flick with horror and creepy atmosphere as a setting. Despite the low budget, Corona Blake manages to pull off a classy final product that at times reaches the level of his previous Santo film, setting the bar high for future adventures of the masked wrestler (sadly, few films came close to it).
In this film Santo has an greater role than in the previous ones, although here he is still the superhero called to do fight crime. While not really his best acting, the script is cleverly built to not let his lack of experience mess with the film, certainly Coronoa Blake knew that his star was not Oscar-material. The whole opposite is Claudio Brook, who like Lorena Velázquez in "Las Mujeres Vampiro", becomes the center of the film with a terrific performance as Dr. Karol. With more than a subtle nod to Vincent Price, Brook creates a complex ambiguous character that at times looks like a villain, while at others is really a sympathetic man. It is his ambiguous nature what drives the film for the most part, making Brook's performance the highlight of the movie.
Like in most (if not all) Mexican fantasy films, the serious problem the film has is its really low-budget. While Corona makes the best that he can do with what he's got, at times the cheap special effects and the bad make up truly take away the feeling of the film. Another small quibble is that the film loses a lot of steam by the ending, as it becomes another typical film by the moment of the final confrontation. Still, "Santo en el Museo De Cera" is one of the better Santo films, as it presents an atmospheric movie with beautiful Gothic cinematography. Watch the subtitled version as like in most Santo films, the dubbed one is truly awful and doesn't give justice to the film.
Along with "Santo Contra Las Mujeres Vampiro", "Santo in the Wax Museum" is a great addition to a Santo collection, and another of the best films with Mexican wrestlers as main characters. It may not be a classic horror film, but it's an entertaining film with a great performance by Claudio Brook. 7/10 It's the 11th outing for Santo, the "Silver Mask Man", in this crime/horror combination which is actually one of the few (three I think) Santo films to have actually been dubbed into English, by US entrepreneur K. Gordon Murray no less. Not that the dubbing means a lot here - aside from lots of cheesy dialogue that is. The plot is straightforward stuff, with Santo (or "Samson" as he has been absurdly renamed for the American audience) investigating kidnappings involving a creepy wax museum and spending a lot of the time wrestling in the ring in between. You've gotta love Santo - he's been a genuine screen hero for decades in Mexico and his legacy has now passed down to his son, "El Hijo de Santo".
Some have complained about this movie's lack of pacing and general poor production standards, but this is a norm for the Mexican B-film industry at the time and is something you must become acquired to in order to enjoy the film for what it is. SAMSON IN THE WAX MUSEUM offers up a fair amount of action during its course, whether inside the ring or out, and if you're in the mood for a cheap but entertaining B-movie then this might well be for you. The film's main enemy is Dr. Karol, a guy who has a bit of a backstory for a change rather than just being the typically mad scientist type. You see he was trapped in a concentration camp during the war for years, resulting in his entire body (apart from his face!) being horrendously scarred. This scarring has led to a total disgust in all that is beautiful in mankind, so now Karol vents his angers on the innocent by kidnapping beautiful women and converting them into freakishly ugly monsters for his wax display.
Karol's laboratory is a cult fan's dream come true, complete with bubbling test-tubes, bald weirdo henchmen lurking around in corners, and an acid bath into which one or two professors find themselves falling. The scenes set in the museum's basement, packed with famous screen and story monsters (including a Frankenstein's Monster in Karloff makeup!) are pretty creepy at times, especially when said monsters come to life for the film's genuinely exciting climax and engage in a mega battle with Santo. Santo puts in a solid action-orientated performance in this movie, no worse or less than any of his others, yet it's impossible to dislike his crime-fighting figure, decked out in a silver mask and sparkling cape - a real movie hero, and I look forward to seeing more of his films.
Claudio Brook (a veteran who went on to be in the likes of ALUCARDA in the '70s) has fun with his villainous performance and gets to play it two-faced for the first half, pretending to be a good guy; Roxana Bellini and Norma Mora aren't required to do much other than be tied up and scream as the females-in-peril, but they lend some much-needed Mexican glamour to the production. The various wrestling bouts are well-staged and involve skilled performers, my favourite being the match between Santo and a cocky blond-haired French guy who struts his stuff before getting the hell beaten out of him by our masked hero. Outside the ring, Santo takes time out to battle some miscellaneous henchmen in the grass and roads outside the museum, yet the best is saved for last as he fights the wax monsters in a perplexing but darned entertaining conclusion - I LOVE that moment when he decides to tip the contents of the acid bath over their beaten bodies! A solid entry into the wrestling/horror genre and a must for fans of Mexican monster madness.
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