Weirdhouse Cinema: Santo in the Treasure of Dracula
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe dive into one of Mexican luchador El Santo's various horror cinema adventures -- and not just any Santo film but the legendary "Santo In The Treasure of Dracula," which features time travel, Dracula and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. |
| 0:14.9 | This is Rob Lam. |
| 0:16.5 | And I'm Joe McCormick. |
| 0:18.0 | And today I'm really excited about this one because we're getting into one of my favorite |
| 0:23.2 | types of movie weirdness, which is unlikely genre crossovers. |
| 0:29.4 | So I think people who have listened to Stuff to Blow Your Mind for a while probably heard |
| 0:32.6 | us talk about the subject of supernatural biker movies. |
| 0:37.0 | This is something that we keep coming back to over the years. |
| 0:40.9 | In that extreme niche crossover subgenre, you've got stuff like grimy 70s exploitation, |
| 0:48.7 | the musk of something like Werewolves on Wheels, which is a kind of, I don't know, Satanic |
| 0:54.6 | Werewolf biker movie where you can really smell the armpits. |
| 1:00.7 | But then you've also got stuff like the extreme lich pope Nigel Tufnell energy of psychomanias, |
| 1:07.3 | psychomanias. |
| 1:08.3 | It's very British. |
| 1:09.3 | It's almost visually nasal somehow, but it's beautiful in its own right. |
| 1:14.8 | And I think I especially enjoy unlikely genre crossovers when at least one of the genres |
| 1:21.3 | that's being crossed is not a universal type like horror or romance or comedy, but something |
| 1:28.5 | much more deeply associated with a particular place and time. |
| 1:32.7 | And biker movies are a great example here because they sort of hit their peak in the late |
| 1:36.7 | 60s and early 70s in American movies. |
| 1:39.4 | It was, I think it was part of that kind of general panic about lawless counterculture |
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