Some lady Mexican wrestlers, or Luchadoras if you're the international type, take on a mad scientist who enjoys dressing like an evil masked Mexican wrestler. He throws a gorilla brain into a guy to make a gorilla-man named Gomar and also hypnotizes a masked lady wrestler named Vendetta to do his evil bidding. Even with all this wackiness going on this movie is pretty dull and sleep-inducing. There's lots of female wrasslin' matches and a head-scratching finale that uses the classic KING KONG ending. Director Rene Cardona went on to remake this in 1972 as the way better and way gorier NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES which I would highly recommend checking out. This earlier version is only for real lovers of Mexi-crap cinema. There's also a re-edited version of this film with a redone soundtrack called ROCK 'N' ROLL WRESTLING WOMEN VS. THE AZTEC APE(done by the great Johnny Legend) which at least throws in some amusing music bits to liven things up. There's also a version titled SEX MONSTER and I have no idea what they added to that one but it sounds interesting. A sequel appeared the following year where our ladies take on the Aztec Mummy which is pretty much the same film but with a long-haired mummy and there's another one where they fight a robot of some sort and probably a few others that I haven't seen yet. I usually find myself watching these movies at around 3 a.m. when insomnia is plaguing me and they usually cure that very quickly.
Science!(only duller):
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