A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...
Practical Effects
The animal-mind wrestler costumes are gloriously wrong in every way.
Stunts
Ruvinskis doing his own lucha moves elevates every scene.
Director
Fernando Méndez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is peak 'Mexican horror golden age' — when lucha libre stars like Santo became bankable genre heroes and studios rushed to capitalize.
Wolf Ruvinskis was an actual professional wrestler before acting; his authentic ring presence is why the wrestling scenes don't completely fall apart.
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