Monday, February 1, 2010

Movies

Santo en el museo de cera (1963) Santo, masked wrestler and scientific crime fighter, prevents a mad scientist, proprietor of a wax museum and creator of deformed monstrosities, from carrying out his plan to transform a beautiful captive into a leopard woman. There is a large bubbling vat and an exposed electrical panel, both of which invariably lead to disaster. In Spanish so some of the subtleties were lost on me. Nice old time b/w studio sets. 5/10

Death Note II: The Last Name (2006) Second and final live action adaptation of the Death Note manga. Death gods give humans a notebook that allows them to kill anyone just by writing down their names. Sort of a horror/cop melodrama, examining notions of personal responsibility and vigilante justice. A bit long, but quite as adequate as the original in re-creating the manga. Probably of little interest to anyone reading this. 7/10