#rene cardona

[grindhousecellar]

#night of a thousand cats #uncut version #gif #rene cardona #blood feast #burlesque #dance number #show girl #grindhousecellar

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#movies #polls #santa claus #santa claus movie #santa claus 1959 #50s movies #rené cardona #rene cardona #josé elías moreno #cesáreo quezadas ‘pulgarcito’ #josé luis aguirre #requested #have you seen this movie poll

[kaipanzero]

The Batwoman

La mujer murcielago (1968)

#The Batwoman #La mujer murcielago #Maura Monti #Rene Cardona #Mexico #movie #gif #1986

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Santa Claus (1959)

#santa claus gif #50s movies #christmas movies #mexican movies #rene cardona #jose elias moreno #santa claus vs the devil #cult movies #mst3k #1950s #1959 #gif #chronoscaph gif

[whims-of-fate]

#The Batwoman #Maura Monti #1968 #Rene Cardona #La mujer murcielago

[notesonfilm1]

La Mujer murcielago/ The Batwoman (Rene Cardona, Mexico, 1968)

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#Batman Universe #Guillermo Calderon Stell #James Bond #La Mujer Murcielago #Maura Monti #Rene Cardona #Spectacle Every Day #The Batwoman #The Creater from the Black Lagoon #The Many Seasons of Mexican Cinema #The Shape of Water #wrestling film

[schlock-luster-video]

On November 26, 1959, Santa Claus debuted in Mexico.

#santa claus #santa claus vs the devil #rene cardona #christmas movies #fantasy film #fantasy adventure film #holiday movies #tcm underground #rifftrax #mst3k #mystery science theater 3000 #mst3000 #mst3k fan art #santa #pen drawibg #jose luis aguirre #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film

[davealmost]

The Batwoman

#The Batwoman #action #Wrestling #mexico #rene cardona #batman rip off #scuba

[watching-pictures-move]

Movie Review | Santa Claus vs. the Devil (Cardona, 1959) & Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (Webster, 1964)

The opening of Santa Claus, or Santa Claus vs. the Devil as it's sometimes known, shows us all the children of the world under Santa Claus' employ. That's right. Not elves, but children. This is a world where Santa employs child labour. But putting that aside, we're treated to groups of children of different nationalities putting on displays of their respective cultures. The movie uses the broadest possible stereotypes in these depictions, bordering on the offensive (the children of Africa wear bones in their hair and are accompanied by drumbeats, while maracas are shown to be integral to the cultures of multiple Central and South American nations), but by the time the children of England sang "London Bridge is Falling Down" or the children of America sang "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in a brutally off-key rendition, I couldn't help but laugh.

I understand this was the basis of a classic MST3K episode in which the phrase "nightmare fuel" was coined, and while I haven't seen the episode in question, it's easy to see how they came up with it. The movie at a glance has the cheerful veneer of any other children's Christmas entertainment, but the particulars of its vision feel ripped out of the most demented corners of the subconscious. Take Santa's telecommunications apparatuses, a satellite dish with a disembodied ear, and a giant pair of disembodied lips. Take the creepy faceless dolls that taunt one of the children. And take the bright red demon who seeks to antagonize Santa, whose body language feels more akin to the sexualized devil of Haxan than something appropriate for a children's movie, particularly when he hovers above the characters as they sleep in scenes right out of Phantasm. There's something almost form-shattering about the creepiness of these images. The movie is captured in colours that are rich but a little too dark, as if to telegraph its sinister dimensions. (I watched this in a beautiful HD transfer on Tubi, which did justice to its visual pleasures.) And even putting aside the imagery, we get scenes like Santa bickering with Merlin over their relative senility. It's hard to picture this actually being enjoyable viewing for children, especially given the awkward pacing (Santa and the demon rarely interact until the homestretch), but as a non-believer who doesn't actually celebrate the holiday, I can't help but be attracted to the movie's sheer strangeness.

That strangeness also manifests in the movie's weirdly reactionary politics. Santa early on refuses to switch out his reindeer for "Sputniks", despite the fact that the reindeer will turn to dust after sunrise, reminding me of M. Emmett Walsh's character in Red Scorpion, whose hatred for the Soviets overrode consideration for his own safety. A poor family is worried about not getting presents, which despite Santa's existence appears to be a regular feature of this world. Santa does not even acknowledge these economic realities, but comes in at the end to give the child a meager doll, like a tax cut that doesn't actually benefit anyone below a certain income level. The demon seeks to undermine Santa by appealing to "subversive" elements, like women and the poor, and his scheme to defeat Santa involves him getting shot by trigger-happy policemen, relying on a lack of police accountability to defeat his enemy. I would not vote for the demon were he running for office, but must confess he does a better job addressing the issues that really affect voters than Santa and his incumbent contempt.

That being said, I am not completely made of stone, and the resilience of the poor child's moral fibre in the face of hardship did manage to move me a little. And really, despite everything I've said, this really isn't much more deranged or cloying than all of those supposedly normal Christmas where, I dunno, Tim Allen plots to murder his in-laws or whatever normally happens in these things.

I chased Santa Claus vs. the Devil with another movie known for being featured on MST3K, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. In this case, I'd seen the movie previously through the show, but watching it in its original form, I couldn't help but find it endearing. After the other movie's reactionary streak, this one stands out as kindler, gentler, more palatable in its politics. We are presented with differing views among the martians in their warlike mission to kidnap Santa and bring Christmas cheer to their home planet. There are the hardliners who are not above war crimes, like their attempt to jettison Santa and the human children out the airlock. There is the centrist who is attempting to conduct a humane war, not realizing his mission by its very nature is inhumane. And there is the pacifist Dropo, who seems daffy but is perhaps wisest of all, as he seeks to avoid this war outright.

Santa employs a staff of highly skilled (and probably unionized) elves, and decries the martian attempts to automate these jobs out of existence. And Santa ends this war of sorts not through force, but through love, kindness and good cheer, moving the martians with his resiliency under duress. (The rare moment of callousness on his part comes when the martians freeze his wife, and he remarks that this is the longest she's ever gone without talking. Women, amirite?) I am rarely moved by gestures towards the meaning of Christmas, but in this case I will make an exception. And while the movie is obviously frugally budgeted, it is realized in charmingly chintzy production design full of bright colours (which certainly pop on the HD transfer I watched on Tubi), a better approximation of a child's imagination than the horrific imagery seen in Santa Claus vs. the Devil.

#film #movie review #santa claus #santa claus vs. the devil #santa claus conquers the martians #rene cardona #nicholas webster

[cinemaquiles]

Uma história real: "Os sobreviventes dos Andes" (1976)

#René Cardona #Rene Cardona #Supervivientes de los Andes #survive #survive movie #Gaspar Henaine #Sebastián Ligarde #Hugo Stiglitz #Leonardo Daniel #Fernando Larrañaga #José Elias Moreno #Carlos Monden #Luz María Aguilar #Norma Lazareno #70's movies #Youtube

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Preview: The Bat Woman (Limited Edition Bluray)

“Wrestlers, mad doctors, and human-fish hybrids abound in The Bat Woman (La mujer murciélago), a colourful showcase for the talents of Italian Mexican sex symbol Maura Monti. When Acapulco’s wrestlers start being murdered and their pineal glands mysteriously extracted, the wealthy luchadora Gloria (Monti) adopts her crime-fighting persona of the Bat Woman. Donning her disguise of shiny blue mask,…

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#David Silva #Héctor Godoy #La mujer murciélago #Maura Monti #Rene Cardona #Roberto Cañedo #The Bat Woman

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Colmillos, el Hombre Lobo (1993)

See more screencaps of this werewolf and others of the 90s in my blog post.

#werewolf #horror #movie screencaps #monster #film screencaps #werewolves #colmillos el hombre lobo #rene cardona III #mexican horror #90s horror #Miguel Ángel Rodríguez #practical effects #transformation #werewolf transformation

[gotankgo]

«2-1-80, Chicago - The release of Guyana Cult of the Damned possibly furthered the Apocalypse Culture interest in Jim Jones, but in 1980 it was just a super shocker that played theaters to a mass of dropped jaws. Directed by Rene Cardona, Jr. with Stuart Whitman in the lead role, this turned into the many Dogs of the Week on Sneak Previews which some of us took note like a "must see" list (Gene Siskel walked out).»

#Guyana Cult of the Damned #1980 #chicago #grindhouse #grind house #Rene Cardona Jr. #stuart whitman

[thenotsobad-thebad-andtheugly]

Guns and Guts (1974)

#guns and guts #western #rene cardona jr. #jorge rivero #pedro armendariz #rogelio guerra #zulma faiad #quintin bulnes

[rickyvalero]

AEW Star Brock Anderson answers dream Father/Son Matchup at StarrcastV

AEW Star Brock Anderson answers dream Father/Son Matchup at StarrcastV

I recently attended Starrcast V in Nashville, Tennesee. The three-day event took place at the Nashville Fairgrounds. It was headlined as Ric Flair’s Last Match, which included a weekend of roast, panels, and a convention. I had a chance to ask Joey Janela a question during Starrcast V in Nashville, TN during Ric Flair’s Last Match weekend. Brock Anderson answers what the perfect Father/Son duo…

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#AEW #AEW Wrestler #Arn Anderson #Bret Hart #Brian Meyers #Brock Anderson #Bryan Danielson #Championship #Claudio Castagnoli #Convention #Curt Henning #FiteTV #Fued #GCW Wrestling #Joey Janela #Matt Cardona #PPV #Renee Paquette #Ric Flair #Ric Flairs Last Match #Starrcast #Starrcast Events #StarrcastV #Terry Funk #The Four Horseman #The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast #Ultimate Warrior #Wrestler #Wrestling #WWE

[shesnake]

the version of babylon (2022) dir. damien chazelle in my head where instead of brad pitt it's robert downey jr (I don't like him either but trust me) also 10 more minutes were given each to fake rene cardona fake anna may wong and fake curtis moseby ALSO if a shot of moonlight was included in the future cinema montage at the end......... 5 stars

#babylon