Santo in the Vengeance of the Mummy

1971 Santo tale of adventure

Rating: 20/20

Plot: Following his victory over an undefeated Italian tag-team, Santo is recruited by scientists and anthropologists to accompany them on a trip to someplace that probably never existed in search of the tomb of a prince and the treasures within. They unleash de furio de la momia and Aztec mayhem after the disturbance of said tomb, and Santo watches members of his party die off one by one or run off like cowards.

Not nearly as much wrasslin' action in this, but the three fights outside the ring, the climax obviously involving the mummy, are good. El Santo even fights a panther in a scene that ends with a flash of butt crack. There are of course some unintentionally humorous moments. There's also a character (apparently some kind of Mexican Amish scientist) in the movie only for comic value who rivals Jar Jar Binks as least necessary (and least funny) addition to an action movie. At least he, unlike Binks, gets his by the end. Nowhere near the best Santo movie I've seen, especially because of a predictable ending that looked like something right out of a Scooby Doo cartoon, but because of the El Santo Rule, this is still a 20/20.

El Santo's Crotch? Meet my finger!