Samson In The Wax Museum
  Only three Santo movies were imported and dubbed into english.This one, the classic Samson And The Vampire Women and Invasion Of The Zombies.While I am not a wrestling fan the Santo/Samson movies can be dumb fun.Samson battles for the good of mankind when he isn't wrestling with other sweaty guys.Everybody has to have a hobby.
  The plot boils down(if I may pun)to this:The mad Dr Karol runs a wax museum.With some sort of mad scientist formula he has live exhibits that obey his commands. There is a Frankenstein type monster, a werewolf, a pig man and a caveman. Karol was disfigured by the Nazis.His chest and his hands were horribly scarred.Therefore he wants to make the world feel pain and ugliness.(Maybe he should make them watch the wrestling scenes over and over again,eh?)Well he kills a friend of Samson's and makes it look like someone is also out to kill him.So old droopy drawers is on the case.
  Now we have to fill 90 minutes here kids.So we get endless wrestling scenes not to mention the endless mad scientist chortling over his helpless victims scenes.If he would spend less time gleefully babbling about how delightful his plans are and just DO them it would be even scarier.Samson takes nearly the whole film to figure things out.He has to face Dr Karol's army of wax zombie/critters.Things are looking grim for old droopy drawers!
  When I was a kid I loved this movie.As an adult it took a few viewings to warm me back up to it.The wrestling arena scenes definitely need to be fast forwarded through.
   
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