Mil Mascaras Films

Mil Mascaras has made 17 movies and actually has one now in production called "Wrestling Women vs. the Brainiac"
You can see a trailer of it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wo7pcALu84
Now this is just a college film, but I wonder what kinda strings he had to pull to get Mil in it? And it is Mil, his movements are unmistakable.



Mil's first movie was Los Canallas back in 1966 ( Batman!)
His next movie was Mil Máscaras in 1969. It was followed by Las Vampiras released the same year, as was Enigma de muerte. Enigma co-stared the legendary John Carradine as a mad scientist.


Then came Los Campeones Justicieros, with Mil, Blue Demon,La Sombra Vengadora,Tinieblas and El Médico Asesino! Kind of a Super Friends of Lucha Libre.


Las Momias de Guanajuato was released in 1972 and starred Mil, Blue Demon and SANTO! Okay, Santo is kind of a last minute addition, but he does show up.


El Robo de las momias de Guanajuato was also released in 1972, as was Vuelven los campeones justicieros another Lucha Super Friend movie with Mil, Blue Demon,El Rayo de Jalisco,El Fantasma Blanco and El Avispon Escarlata.

Una Rosa sobre el ring and Las Bestias del terror came out in 1973.

Leyendas macabras de la colonia was released in 1974 as was Los Vampiros de Coyoacán ( in which Mascaras and Superzan wrestle a mob of vampire dwarves!)

Las Momias de San Ángel and El Poder negro were both released in 1975.


Misterio en las Bermudas.1977 starred Santo, Mil and the Blue Demon. The infamous " Unmasking at the border crossing" happened when filming this movie. The idea of three luchadores riding across country with their masks on still trips me out! The story goes that they were stopped at the border and the guard asked them to unmask. Mil and Demon did it, but Santo refused until Mil and Demon averted their eyes and only the guard saw Santo's true face.
The man was hardcore!


El Hijo de Santo en frontera sin ley was released in 1983, and La Verdad de la lucha was released in 1990.

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Luchador - Huracán Ramírez

Huracán Hernandez had possibly one of the coolest of the Lucha Libre Masks, along with Fishman and Mil Mascaras

Huracán Hernandez was a fictitious character invented for the 1952 Mexican wrestling movie of the same name. In the film a young Mexican, whose father is a professional wrestler, decides to follow in his father's footsteps by adopting the secret identity of Huracán Ramírez, a masked luchador, and he fights in the ring in spite of his father's wishes to the contrary.

Although actor David Silva played the role of the young man in the film, the masked wrestler scenes were played by real-life luchador Eduardo Bonada. Following the film's release, Bonada continued to wrestle as Huracan Ramirez in the ring in real life until 1959, when he tired of the gig and was replaced by the film's producers by 43-year-old wrestler Daniel García.

García wrestled in the ring wearing the Huracán Ramírez costume for more than 30 years, and played the role in all of the movie sequels that followed (with the exception of "Huracan Ramirez Vs. The Terrorists"). Daniel García was a very close personal friend of El Santo, and when Santo died in 1984, Daniel Garcia was one of the Silver-Masked Man's pall bearers. Garcia died on November 1, 2006 at the age of 80.

A total of eight "Huracán Ramírez" movies were made in all, although the films tended to focus more on dramatic subplots and musical numbers, and never really gave the Huracán Ramírez character a lot to do in the films from a heroic standpoint. Eduardo Bonada played Huracan only in the first film, and Daniel Garcia played Huracan in the other films (with the exception of the last film made in 1989).

Hurricane Hernandez (1952) starring Eduardo Bonada as Huracan
The Mystery of Hurricane Hernandez (1962) introducing Daniel Garcia as Huracan
The Son of Hurricane Hernandez (1966)
The Revenge of Hurricane Hernandez (1967)
Hurricane Hernandez and the Black Nun (1973)
De Sangre Chicana (1974)
El Torito Puños de Oro (1979) Daniel Garcia's last film
Hurricane Hernandez Vs. the Terrorists (1989) (Note* - A different actor played Huracan in this later movie)

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