10 Outrageous Mexican Wrestling Films You Need To See

Have you ever noticed how visitors from outer space always speak the language of the country they’re invading? Not only are the Martians in this entry fluent in Spanish, they even resemble the people they’re attempting to conquer. You can still tell they’re aliens, though – the men wear hats without a shirt.

The only person capable of stopping them is Santo, who the Martians call “the one that dresses strangely” (“pot”, “kettle”, “black”, anyone?). He challenges them to a wrestling match, which must be popular on Mars because they accept immediately, then once Santo starts kicking their butts they head back to their spaceship that – spoiler alert – just happens to have a self-destruct lever in the middle of the room.

In a movie with no shortage of did-I-just-see-that moments, the best has to be the sequence where the Martians use their “Transformation Chamber” to allow them to pass for human, even though all it does is alter their hair and clothes. Furthering their anonymity, they adopt such everyday names as Argos, Kronos and Aphrodite, which is odd because the actors call themselves Wolf Ruvinskis, Natanael Leon Frankenstein and El Nazi.