Ladron de Cadaveres (1957)
Directed by Fernando Méndez
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Synopsis by Perry Seibert
The unusual Mexican horror film Ladron de Cadaveres offers a combination of mad scientists and masked wrestlers. Cowboy Guillermo, a wrestler who dreams of a life on the open plains, works out at Dorantes gym, where he has a relationship with the gym's secretary. When another wrestler from the gym is murdered and reanimated with the brain of a monkey, policeman Carlos decides to have Guillermo investigate undercover.
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brain, gym, mad-scientist, monkey, murder, wrestling-professional