Not to be confused with that Santo movie from 1973 or that Ilsa movie from 1977, this one is actually a super low-budget 60s sexploitation flick filmed in the Bronx. Made in Spanish and featuring a mostly Puerto Rican?(Nuyorican!) cast. It starts out with our main gal, Perla Faith, getting treated like crap by a local girl gang and then raped(actually we just see some big muscle-head guy lay on top of her but this is what we're told). Her drunken slob of a father dies during this attack and then it's revenge city. While this simple plot seems like it would be pretty hard to mess up the director, Glauco Del Mar, seems to decide to attempt to make an art film right in the middle of the movie so he does a bunch of strange quick cuts and throws in an oddly filmed peeping Tom fantasy scene. Then a cross-dressing stripper shows up for no real reason and a very unlikely decapitation takes place to liven things up. The whole film feels pretty ineptly made but this perception may have been heightened due to the terrible-looking version of this obscurity that I had the chance to view last night in the local weirdo theater. Probably more important as a culture artifact than an entertaining watch.
At first glance of the poster and video art for this I was expecting more of a FUEGO-type deal but that's not the case here. In fact this makes FUEGO look like an all-time classic in comparison.
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