Ladrón de cadáveres (The Body Snatcher) [DVD] [1957]

An athlete is killed and trepanned; Commander Carlos investigates, the assassin then kills a fighter; then the inspector proposes to the rancher Guillermo to pose as the vampire fighter to catch the killer who is Ogden, a scientist who wants to prolong human life by changing the brains of his victims for others of animals.

He kills the rancher and takes his body to his laboratory, where he revives it with the brain of a gorilla; then it makes him fight; he defeats all his rivals, but when he takes off his mask his face has transformed into that of a gorilla and kills Ogden, and then looks for his girlfriend Lucia, the secretary of the arena, who is saved while the rancher dies.

En México, el capitán de policía Carlos Robles (Crox Alvarado) no tiene pistas para resolver una serie de espeluznantes asesinatos de varios de los mejores atletas de México. Desconocido para el Comandante, el científico Don Panchito es responsable de los asesinatos y ha estado asesinando a la comunidad atlética con el fin de proporcionar sujetos de prueba para sus experimentos; El procedimiento de Panchito consiste en extirpar el cerebro de la víctima y reemplazarlo con el de un animal en un esfuerzo por encontrar una manera de conquistar la muerte.

Cast Columba Domínguez (as Lucía), Crox Alvarado (as Capt. Carlos Robles), Wolf Ruvinskis (as Guillermo,  Santana / El Vampiro), Carlos Riquelme (as Don Panchito / The Mad Doctor), Eduardo Alcaraz (as Police Chief), Arturo Martínez (as Felipe Dorantes)

Director Fernando Mendez Producer Sergio Kogan Cinematography Víctor Herrera Writer Fernando Méndez, Alejandro Verbitzky Music Federico Ruiz

Special Video Essay by Dr. David Wilt, Film Historian and noted expert on Mexican Cinema – “Mexican Horror and Lucha Libre” (Horror Mexicano Lucha Libre)

Format  DVD

Language  Spanish with Optional English Subtitles

Region  All

Audio  PCM Mono

Aspect Ratio  1:37:1

Subtitles  English

Rating  NR

Runtime  80

Year  1957

Color  B&W

UPC  089859891526