Go to Roxie Theater for tickets: buff.ly/2lZ4UyD. Join us to hear what she’s discovered IN PERSON following this screening. To donate more, go to gofundme.įilmmaker and archivist Viviana García Besné investigates cult luchador films from the inside as the grandniece of star José Luis Calderón and granddaughter of the producer. Campos quien le lava el cerebro para convertirlo en miembro de su pandilla. Located in a warehouse area of Tepoztlán, Morelos, the Permanencia Voluntaria archive has preserved, in particular, “ficheras” movies, “rumberas” and several El Santo films.įunds raised at this screening will help benefit its repair. Un agente de la policía encubierta es secuestrado por el Dr. The earthquake caused severe damage to the building that houses the archive and put all the material it shelters at risk. According to, the material damages left by the devastating September 19 earthquake include those of the Permanencia Voluntaria film archive, the only independent film archive in Mexico that specializes in the collection and preservation of popular Mexican cinema movies, as well as other unique materials such as posters, documents and promotional items. Restored by Nicolas Winding, Academy Film Archive, Cinema Preservation Alliance-and Permanencia Voluntaria-which is still recovering after the September earthquake. This # RoxCine screening benefits the Mexican Archive Permanencia Voluntaria.ĬEREBRO DEL MAL is one of the first of its genre made in 4K. It’s one of two Mexico-Cuba productions debuting El Santo, which eventually sparked a 52 film series. Santo Contra Cerebro Del Mal Greeting Card. Campos and brainwashed into becoming a criminal and a member of his gang. The Evil Brain sparked a long series of films, 52 in all, in which El Santo fights supernatural creatures, evil scientists, and various criminals and secret agents.July 14 we celebrate the centennial of the birth of El Santo, the most iconic Mexican luchador, by co-presenting a new digital restoration of SANTO CONTRA EL CEREBRO DEL MAL– a 1961 horror-action film that was produced in Cuba during the revolution. Custom printed for pretty much every special thing there is. An undercover police agent, El Santo, is kidnapped by Dr. In his first movie, the silver-masked hero foils the plot of a mad scientist to create a zombie army by zapping his innocent victims with electric shocks. the Evil Brain marks the cinematic debut of El Santo (Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta), the most famous and iconic of all Mexican luchadores. Shot in Cuba in 1958-shortly before Fidel Castro entered Havana and the filmmakers were forced to flee the prematurely (with the unprocessed 35mm negative being smuggled out inside a coffin)- Santo vs. Zambrano, Alberto Inzúa, and Fernando Osés. Starring: Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta “El Santo,” Joaquín Cordero, Norma Suárez, Enrique J. (Joselito Rodríguez, Mexico, 1961, In Spanish with English subtitles) THE EVIL BRAIN / SANTO CONTRA CEREBRO DEL MAL - New Digital Restoration! El Santo es sometido por un grupo de maleantes y tras ser hipnotizado por el malvado doctor Campos (Joaquín Cordero) es obligado a colaborar en los planes de. Presented by Museum of the Moving Image and CInema TropicalĬo-presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University and the Mexican Studies Institute at The City University of New York
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