Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Santo vs. the Martian Invasion
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.4 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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In this classic episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe return to the wild world of lucha libre with the 1967 Mexican science fiction film “Santo vs. the Martian Invasion,” starring El Santo himself alongside Wolf Ruvinskis and Maura Monti. (originally published 1/10/2025)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.4 | Hey, you welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind. This is Rob Wham, and we have a fun one here for you |
| 0:13.5 | today. This is going to be Santo versus the Martian Invasion. Yes, another classic |
| 0:18.9 | Lucha Libre film. This one from 1967 and decidedly, |
| 0:23.7 | sci-fi. But don't worry, there are also plenty of wrestling holds and throws to go around. |
| 0:29.2 | This one originally published 110, 2025. All right, let's lock up. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:47.5 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb. |
| 0:50.6 | And this is Joe McCormick. And today, once more, we return to the realm of the great and powerful |
| 0:56.9 | luchadors, Mexican wrestling cinema, and the encounters of these wrestlers with villains of |
| 1:04.0 | the supernatural science fiction and generally weird persuasion. You know, before we came on Mike today, Rob, you and I in the chat |
| 1:12.5 | were talking about just other Mexican wrestling movies that come up that look interesting, |
| 1:18.5 | but I guess they're just not really within our purview because they don't have either magic |
| 1:24.5 | or science fiction technology in it. I think we have to limit ourselves just to those. |
| 1:29.7 | And even just walling off that sort of subset, |
| 1:32.8 | there's still so many riches to discover. |
| 1:36.4 | That's right. |
| 1:37.0 | Yeah, |
| 1:37.2 | every time we dive into Lucha films, |
| 1:40.0 | I feel like I'm discovering new potentially tantalizing titles. |
| 1:44.5 | And I mean, I think the same goes for just Mexican cinema in general. |
| 1:48.2 | There's just so much there, so many different genres. |
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