Los vampiros de Coyoacán (1974) Poster

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4/10
Poor plot and slow pace kill the good action scenes.
dbborroughs15 March 2011
Warning: Spoilers
The trouble with many of the masked wrestler films is that they substitute matches for plot. This film begins with a 15 minute match with Superzan and Mil Mascaras that has nothing to do with the plot and is then followed by another where a wrestler is killed in the ring by a bald headed baddie. That makes most of the first half hour a disposable bore.

From there the plot swings into action, at a very slow pace, in a weird retread of Dracula with the two wrestlers helping a woman who is being drained by a vampire.

A weird mix of good things, the action scenes in the final hour are well done, the little people vampires are amusing and there is some good make up effects; and bad things, silly vampire fangs, slow pace and weak plot, make this tough to recommend. I liked the pieces but the whole isn't all that hot.

I picked it up as part of a six film set and on that level it was fine, but I wouldn't track this one film down since it's cons out weigh the pros.
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Even vampire dwarves can't save this movie
telepinus15256 April 2003
Hooo Boy! I'm as big a fan of lucha flix as the next gringo, but, yikes! This one really tests your patience! At first glance, this one seems to have it all: great wrestling costumes, vampires, cool convertible muscle cars, gorgeous babes, befuddled police, etc. However, as it unfolds, you start to notice...where's the action? Between watching Mil Mascaras and his partner Superzan just stand around trying to figure out the vampire murders, and watching the titular heroine run around acting scared, I was REALLY hard put not to fast forward this thing. Even the ring action is just barely perfunctory(I refuse to believe that Mascaras couldn't be given something more to do). The dead givaway is when the token, non-wrestling male love interest (a doctor, presumably, dressed in the latest fashion straight from Miller's Outpost)is actually given more action scenes than the wrestlers! Unforgivable! The ONLY reason to watch this snoozer is the scene in the vampire's manor, where Mascaras and Superzan wrestle a mob of--I kid you not--vampire dwarves! WOW! These little guys can really rassle! Just the memory of our heroes bouncing these freaky little knee-biters off the red velvet-lined walls, like so many bloodsucking nerf-balls makes me crack up even as I type this. Otherwise, I haven't been so bored with a lucha flick since "Santo and The Tigress". Take my advice give this one a qualified pass. Now, if you'll excuse me I'm going to go watch my tape of Santo in "Invasion of The Martians" for the forty-third time...
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