Halloween Sugestions ‘10 Part II
For my next selection of feature films a serial fan might like for Halloween, I’m going to go with one I found on YouTube, 1968’s The Batwoman. No this is not the Jerry Warren knock off The Wild Wild World of Batwoman staring Katherine Victor, this is the Mexican action film staring popular Spanish actress Maura Monti as a rich socialite who fights crime (and does some wrestling on the side) as the masked, bikini wearing Batwoman.
She is called in by a Mexican state police agent she is friends with, who needs her help investigating a series of murdered wrestlers in Acapulco, her reputation as a wrestler will allow her to investigate without drawing too much attention (apparently her crime fighting reputation will be overlooked by the criminals). It doesn’t take long before she discovers a mad scientist on a yacht is behind the murders, extracting pineal fluid from their brains to create a fish man.
After he has created the fish man, the scientist decids the perfect specimen to be his creation’s mate is Batwoman, and it will also be revenge for her throwing acid in his face during an encounter earlier in the film. After several run ins with the scientist’s henchmen and a couple of encounters with the fish man, Batwoman and her two sidekicks are kidnapped by the scientist, but the plucky crimefighter manages to turn the tables and the scientist is killed by is own creation while the heroes escape before the now burning yacht explodes.
A fun and campy film that has everything, a sexy crimefighter in a skimpy outfit beating the crap out of henchmen, a rubber suited monster stomping around and killing people, and a mad scientist ranting and raving about his plans to take over the world bwa ha ha.
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