(021) BLUE DEMON (1965) Blue Demon's rare 'lost' first film
8745DVD
TODAYBLUE
DEMON'S FIRST MOVIE IS CONSIDERED A LOST FILM
BUT HERE IT IS!
THE VISUAL QUALITY IS LESS THAN OPTIMUM
[PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THE ACTUAL SCREEN SHOTS
BELOW
TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT]
original
Mexican/Spanish title EL DEMONIO AZUL [The Blue Demon]
also known as BLUE DEMON VS THE WOLFMAN
director: Chano Urueta
starring Blue Demon (Alejandro Munoz Moreno) · Jaime Fernandez
· Rosa Maria Vazquez · Mario Orea
After a few disappointing
cameo roles, this was the first headlining film by the Blue Demon. Made
in black-n-white, on a miniscule budget (seemingly, with a ghastly inferior
16mm film stock), this movie was produced merely to satisfy impatient
'second-string' wrestler Blue Demon who felt lost in the shadow
of Santo, after signing to the same luchador studio. Despite the Z-grade
production value of the film [or, maybe, because of it], Blue Demon's
project became a surprise hit for Luis Enrique Vergara studios and the
new wrestling star was immediately signed to the new, better financed
BLUE
DEMON VS. THE POWER OF SATAN, followed by HELLISH
SPIDERS a year later. He retired from motion pictures in 1980,
after 25 movies. Blue Demon died from a heart attack December 2000 at
age 78.
The Mexican passion
for horror is in full force here with creepy old mansions and castles,
demon potions and flashy laboratories, plus wolfmen running in the woods
killing innocent lovers. As usual for the luchador genre there's a wealth
of wrestling action both in and out of the ring as Blue Demon challenges
the werebeasts. It all starts when a couple is found crushed to death
in the forest. The evidence suggests they were killed by a wolf... but,
as somebody should've realized, wolves don't crush their victims to death.
Then rumors of a werewolf begin. Not exactly sure why, but presumably
because a wolfman was believed to prowl in the same woods 50 years previous.
Of course, no one in authority thinks it's possible; however kindly Dr
Gruber takes it seriously and asks masked championship wrestler Blue Demon
to investigate.
A
Mexican/Spanish film with English subtitles; widescreen, (78 minutes)
in DVD encoded for
ALL REGION NTSC, playable on any American DVD machine;
Extras include original
trailers
