MonsterVision99 Doctor Of Doom, A.K.A Las Luchadoras VS El Doctor Asesino, its the basic luchador film from México, but its executed very well by director Rene Cardona. Cardona never disappoints, this time he brings us with an amazing film that never ceases to be fun.The film its better than your average luchador B-movie, with some nice directing, some good acting, decent writing and a big cheesy schlock value.The film was latter remade as Night Of The Bloody Apes, A.K.A La Horripilante Bestia Humana, which its also very fun, but I found this one to be better.Overall, its definitely a must watch for B-movie fans, it has some good characters and a extreme camp value.

gridoon2018 "Doctor Of Doom" has something for everyone: whodunit (just WHO is the mysterious masked mad doctor? The answer surprises - and cheats!), comedy (an almost "Abbott & Costello"-like duo of cops), camp (through the dubbing, as well as the straightfaced handling of the most outrageous plot points), monster film (with a man-gorilla hybrid), and of course lots of female pro wrestling (which may appear a bit crude, but still remains far superior to most of women's wrestling even in today's WWE; this is a must-see for fans of the sport in a more pure form). Lorena Velázquez (who actually bears a resemblance to Elizabeth Taylor!) and Elizabeth Campbell are two beautiful, sweet, strong, and eye-poppingly curvy heroines who are more often doing the rescuing than being in need of it; in that respect, "Doctor Of Doom" was ahead of its time. Good schlocky fun. **1/2 out of 4.

Woodyanders A mad doctor who's referred to as -- what else? -- "the mad doctor" kidnaps women so he can use them as objects for his nefarious brain transplant experiments. The doctor, assisted by the brutish humanoid ape beast Gomar (an idiot mute strongman with the brain of a gorilla who when he's decked out in some chintzy bulletproof outfit can butcher four cops no problem) and a legion of expendable goons, unfortunately can't find a gal with the necessary stamina to survive his grueling operations. When one of the doc's many female victims is the sister of wrestling star Gloria Venus (the lovely, voluptuous Lenora Velazquez), who along with fellow wrestler Golden Rubi (the gorgeously statuesque Elizabeth Campbell) and a pair of blundering, ineffectual peabrain cops decide to take on the evil medico. After the girls burn down his lab and disfigure his face with acid, the mad doctor builds himself a ferocious lady wrestler called Vendetta and poses as her creepy manager (the doc covers his scarred mug with a mask ala Santo!), unleashing Vendetta on both Gloria Venus and Golden Rubi for a riotous climactic wrestling match. With its rusty tin-eared dialogue ("I must say that this particular criminal is disconcerting"), a snazzy beatnik jazz score, countless ineptly staged fight scenes, a self-consciously cutesy'n'campy sense of humor, bloodless violence, laughable costumes (the mad doctor's white hood disguise makes him look like a rogue Klu Klux Klan member!), scrappy, washed-out black and white cinematography, winningly bad acting, implausible plot twists (the particularly unbelievable man with an ape's brain brain idea really stands out here), cruddy make-up f/x, and breezy tongue-in-cheek tone, this absolute howler rates as an often sidesplitting serving of sensationally silly south-of-the-border schlock.

Andrew Leavold I'm not sure about you, but I find there's something mildly fetishistic about masked wrestlers. But women without masks throwing grown men around the ring… Wrestling Women vs The Aztec Ape was the first in a series of six Wrestling Women or "Las Luchadoras" films, an attempt to feminize the almost entirely masculine world of masked wrestling movies. The first three team Mexican genre icon Lorena Velasquez with American cupcake Elizabeth Campbell, and two were successful enough to get the K. Gordon Murray treatment. Thus Las Luchadoras Contra el Medico Asesino becomes "Doctor Of Doom", and later in the 80s gets a bogus surf soundtrack and is re-dubbed "Rock And Roll Wrestling Women vs The Aztec Ape".Lorena Velasquez is Gloria Venus, a gorgeous almond-eyed wrestling dynamo who gets thrown around the ring then leaves it without a hair from her Elizabeth Taylor do out of place. She's teamed up with new partner The Golden Rubi, a red-haired firebrand from North of the Border, and from the moment they meet they become the best of friends. But not that good, if you know what I mean.Wrestling Women… opens with a series of murders attributed to a killer branded the Mad Doctor, who leaves his female victims completely brainless. The Doctor, who spends most of the film with his head in a pillowcase with eye-holes, is intent on perfecting brain transplants, and has even grafted a gorilla's brain into a man's body. The resulting monobrowed monster known as Gomar, a goofy-looking creature with arms covered in carpet fluff, is sent out to grab more women, and one happens to be wrestler Gloria Venus' sister Alice Fontaine (or Alicia Flores). As she dies on the table, the Mad Doctor decides he needs a more resilient female subject - physically strong, as well as intelligent, and with a profession. It's no stretch of the imagination who he picks – Lorena Velasquez, I'm looking at you! Aided by the Golden Rubi, the inspector and his diminutive assistant as well Alice's kindly boss Professor Wright (who's dubbed to sound like James Mason), Gloria sets out to seek revenge. After a few false endings the Doctor manages to escape the gauntlet, and successfully transplants the Ape's killer brain into the body of a female wrestler (complete with cries of "She's alive! She's alive!"). Adding a mask, she becomes "Vendetta", and the Mad Doctor, also in a ghoulish mask posing as her masked manager, challenges Gloria to a death match. The plan is to legally murder her in the ring, and so Gloria now needs to fight for her life! Aztec Ape is directed by masked wrestling specialist Rene Cardona Sr, who masterminded all six Wrestling Women films, and also directed Lorena Velasquez in Santo vs The Zombies and Santo vs The Vampire Women. Lorena was one of the few wrestling movie icons to NOT be a professional wrestler, and subsequently needed a body double for many of her ring sequences. And you can tell she's not a real wrestler - she's certainly more "leggy" than the other girls at the Wrestling Academy.Prepare yourself to be thrown kicking and screaming into the ring with Las Luchadoras in Wrestling Women vs The Aztec Ape.