10 Outrageous Films That Must Be Seen To Be Believed

Made for peanuts in Mexico, words cannot do justice to the El Santo series of films. They’re sort of similar to Adam West-era Batman, only the crime fighter is a masked Mexican wrestler who battles zombies, werewolves, and Martians

Made in 1962, Vampire Women emerged during a peak in popularity for horror films in Mexico, so the film takes visual cues from the Universal and Hammer Dracula pictures and even throws in a Professor in the Peter Cushing mould. He’s not the hero, of course, just a supporting character who recruits Santo to save his daughter from an army of vampires.

In common with the Hammer films of the time, the female vampires are all astonishingly beautiful, yet the men are about as far removed from Christopher Lee as it’s possible to get. Impossibly muscular and about 100 years too contemporary to be believable, the actors look ill at ease in their cheap rubber capes and don’t really come into their own until they attempt to take Santo in a headlock.