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Original Title: Santa Claus Year: 1959 Director: René Cardona Writer: Adolfo Torres Portillo , René Cardona IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053241/ Genre: Horror!!!!! synopsis: With the aid of Merlin, Santa Claus must defeat the evil machinations of the devil Pitch to ruin Xmas. Surpriiiiise! I saved the scariest until last! Today! Halloween! Eve of El Dia de Muertos! Thank you everyone for reading and commenting and enjoying (cough) my super theme month. But now, onto the dirty work. I've covered a lot of trash and a few treasures this month, but I have to say Santa Claus, while very weird and entertaining for the wrong reasons, just sucks a fat one as a film. UGGGGGHHHHH I was so bored watching this most of the time. Let's cover the good stuff though for the sake of the holiday. Santa is a fucking weirdo creep! José Elías Moreno plays the jolly one in Cardona's vision of the Christmas legend, and isn't bad I suppose. I mean, Santa is supposed to be a fat fucker th...

Original Title : La horripilante bestia humana Year : 1969 (1972) Director : René Cardona , Jerald Intrator (new footage for US version) Writer : René Cardona Jr. , René Cardona IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063090/ Genre : Horror synopsis: A surgeon attempts to cure his son's fatal disease by doing the first 'ape-to-human' heart transplant. The son seems to be cured, only to transform into a horrible beast that goes on a murderous rampage. This movie to me felt like a natural progression from my previous review of Doctor of Doom. On a literal note, Rene Cardona is at the helm once again here to essentially remake Doctor of Doom film into Night of the Bloody Apes, this time with writing help from his son, Rene Cardona Jr. Cardona, Jr. acted a bit in the 60s, and even directed a few films, but it really seems like this film, a bloodier, nakeder version of Doctor of Doom, was a real jumping off point for him to become a prolific B-movie director. So I thought it was fi...