Doctor of Doom / Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy (Something Weird)

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Women wrestlers, monsters, and mad doctors; in other words, two perfect motion pictures! Though he has already created a half man-half ape named Gomar, a mad doctor's experiments on female brain transplants have been failures. Why? "The brains come from totally uneducated women!" But the Doctor of Doom quickly zeroes in on "a stronger type of woman" in the form of gorgeous wrestling pals Gloria Venus and Golden Rubi, sending Gomar and his henchmen to abduct them. After Gloria throws acid in his face, the doc, disfigured and crazier than ever, puts Gomar's gorilla brain into the body of one of Gloria's galpals to create "Vendetta," a Superhuman Wrestling Woman whose goal is to kill Gloria in the ring! Plus, Gloria Venus (now renamed Loretta) and Golden Rubi are back to crack the heads of an Asian gang led by a Fu Manchu-like character known as "The Black Dragon," who's killing off archaeologists in hops of discovering the Treasure of the Aztecs. Entering a tomb and discovering the living remains of a mummified witch doctor who can also change himself into a spider and bat, it time for the main event: The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy!

Customer Reviews:

BETTER THAN THE ROBOT.......2007-01-15

With this double feature we do not get eggroll. We get the first movie, DOCTOR OF DOOM, which we can skip because we only bought the DVD to watch the other movie, so intrigued were we by the title. WRESTLING WOMEN VS THE AZTEC MUMMY is indeed better that THE ROBOT VS THE AZTEC MUMMY, which came from the same source, K. Gordon Murray dumpster diving behind the Mexican cinema lots again. I won't get into LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND THE MONSTERS but if you buy this DVD you can see the trailer from it. Only seeing is believing.

WRESTLING WOMEN actually has a few yucks going for it, and if you are into bad movies, well, you could do worse.

Vlad & Creighton vs. The Aztec Mummy!.......2003-11-12

Just watched this fantastic DVD. Fans of Something Weird or fans of insane movies in general will love it! But don't just buy this disk for the movies. The EXTRAS are the best part. Especially Ghoul A Go Go. This public access tv show out of Long Island is the coolest! Any fan of the whole Horror Host scene must see for him/herself Vlad (the coolest vampire cat on the tube) and Creighton (the baddest/cuddliest hunchback you've ever seen) keep TV creepy with the most whacked-out kids dance show ever. So, put on your Go Go boots and get ready to twist... or boogaloo... or swim.... or....

Ghoul A Go Go !!!.......2003-10-31

If you're a fan of horror hosts and demented daytime kid's TV shows check out the extras on this product. Bonus episodes of the great underground program, "Ghoul-A-Go-Go" featuring the creepy Vlad and Creighton. Great stuff. My daughter absolutely loves Creighton, a king-size hunchback mute with an obsession for classic 60s go-go dancing and who happens to horde a collection of bizarre film footage. Performances by contemporary retro-garage rock bands are a treat, too. Don't overlook this!

Chilling! Thrilling! Zonked out!.......2003-08-14

The first of what is promised to be a release of Mexican horror films purchased from Mexico by exploitation meister K. Gordon Murray in the early Sixties. Lots of related TV spots/trailers, with LOTS!!! OF!!! ECHO!!! ON!!! THE!!!! ANNOUNCER'S!!! VOICE!!!! Good reading on the included eight page booklet talking about Murray's career. Wacky gorillas! Mad scientists! Masked wrestlers! Bad Twist music! These have got it all. But I can't wait for my two favorites, once glimpsed in a drunken state at 3:00 a.m. on a New Jersey UHF station: The Brainiac and the truly creepy Curse of The Doll People! Cursed dolls come to life and start stabbing people to death! THis is 30 years before "Chucky", remember!

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Doctor Doom

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Life is so short, no wonder individuals try and find ways to extend it. But what makes a perfect canidate to recieve this gift? Is it really a gift..or a curse? Could the one who tries be the real doctor of death? WHO REALLY WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER?

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Mexican quasi-masterpiece offers multiple delights.
The "Hidden Gem" of Mexican Cinema
This flick is so bad it's actually funny!

Doctor of Doom
Starring: Lorena Velázquez , Armando Silvestre , Elizabeth Campbell (III) , Roberto Cañedo , and Sonia Infante
Director: René Cardona
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Release Date: 2005-05-10

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Mexican quasi-masterpiece offers multiple delights........2003-02-20

When I received this dvd, I was nervous. I had ordered it under this, its less specific English title, as opposed to its rather more poetic Spanish title. I was nervous because the packaging was so generic that for a moment I wondered if I had ordered the wrong movie, some likewise-titled piece of modern direct-to-video. Nowhere on the package did it mention the Wrestling Women whom I bought it to view. The picture on the case had nothing in particular to do with the movie. And the synopsis was vague at best, misleading at worst.

Well, glory be. The movie was the correct one, Las Luchadoras Contra El Medico Asesino. The disc was of fairly decent quality, with only a few bad splices and such. And the movie itself is a genuine, beans and rice, south-of-the-border camp classic, in such rarified air as Santo Vs. the Vampire Women and its own sequel, Wrestling Women Vs. The Aztec Mummy.

It's like a Republic cliffhanger serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, only Mexican, and starring buxom women in leotards, and with wrestling instead of fistfights. If that doesn't give you an accurate idea of the tone, I don't know what will.

Gloria Venus (think Liz Taylor with muscles) is a famed wrestler whose sister is killed by a madman terrorizing the city. This madman is a brain surgeon kidnapping young women to remove their brains and succeed in transplanting an ape brain into their skulls. One of the girls he kills in his crazy quest is Gloria's sister. The madman has many thugs at his control, as well as Gomar, a hairy guy with the brain of an ape. He keeps Gomar in a cage, and it is unclear why he was not satisfied to be able to transplant ape brains into men. But he was not. Anyway, Gloria soon teams up with statuesque redhead (and wrestler) Golden Rubi to find the madman and end his plot. Their much smaller (but gun-toting) boyfriends also tag along. The madman always wears a mask, because his identity is supposed to be a mystery to the audience. (It ain't.)

There are some last-minute escapes, some false leads, and a whole lot of wrestling. It all culminates in a bout between Gloria and a squat, butchy woman into whom the doctor finally was able put a gorilla's mind. Oh yeah... the climax also brings to mind White Heat, in a low-budget Mexican sort of way. Absolutely none of this is to be taken seriously; nothing makes too much sense. Just sit back and enjoy it.

It took me years to finally come around to the charms of Mexi-horror as imported by K. Gordon Murray. The long wrestling segments and sometimes lumbering narratives turned me off at the start. But I'm glad I kept trying.

If you're new to the genre, I recommend Samson Vs. the Vampire Women, because it has some legitimate elements to work with its camp elements, which may otherwise take a while to overcome our typical American cinematic snobbery. And then once you are a Samson cultist, by all means get a ringside seat to experience The Wrestling Women.

The "Hidden Gem" of Mexican Cinema.......2002-07-10

A magnificent work from our brothers and sisters to our south. Truly riveting in it's expression of 1960's contemporary Mexico. By that I mean a mad scientist's dream and a city's nightmare. Not many films of this era effectively use strong women to "defeat" evil as they did in this film. A risk taken full force with no hesitation. A true film noir treasure. Not to mention the ominous meanings in Gomar's "Special Equipment" and the good natured bafoonery of Tommy. He truly lightened the intense feeling of this film. Watch it if you dare!

This flick is so bad it's actually funny!.......1999-08-17

The plot stinks, the dialogue is awful, and the acting wooden, yet this movie has its moments, i.e.,when the women kick butt and take names, and save the men (for once!) This is almost unheard of in the sci-fi & horror, or any other genre, for that matter, which makes it all the more enjoyable. Another great moment is The Golden Ruby's response to the little policeman when he tells her that he and his buddy with protect her. This is almost worth the price of the movie. If you like your action fast and cohesive, don't bother buying this movie. If you have a well developed sense of humor (or an equally well developed sense of irony) and don't mind sitting through the dull parts, or just like collecting cheeseball flicks, by all means, grab it.

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