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Recap:

He wears a mask, he wears a cape, he drives a fancy car and he has a secret hideout with superior technology. But since he is not Batman, he wears no gloves and touches everything with bare hands, including evidence that is later examined for fingerprints.

Basically the plot is about a policewoman and a policeman who search for a missing voodoo expert, and about a mad scientist who controls a small army of zombies. But there is also this masked dude who does a whole lot of fighting in the ring, uses his batcave surveillance stuff and wrestles zombies. All in all he has not much more dialogue than Arnold Schwarzenegger in, say, Conan The Barbarian. But then, fists speak louder than words, and Santo not only dominated lucha libre for decades, he also had a movie career that Hulk Hogan or The Miz can only dream of, and his comic book outlived him for three full years.

Best of all: this movie is fun! It maybe is the best pre-Romero zombie movie I have seen by now and I am looking forward to watching more lucha libre movies.