One of these movies — Santo vs. las mujeres vampiro (Santo vs. the Vampire Women)— even found its way into a 1995 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Starting with 1958’s Santo contra el cerebro del mal (Santo vs. the Evil Brain), El Santo took on everyone and everything from grave robbers to martians and mafia killers to Dracula.
From his in-ring debut in 1934 until his retirement nearly 50 years later in 1982, El Santo wrestled approximately 15,000 matches, teaming up with and facing some of the biggest luchadors and inspiring future generations, according to the New York Times Magazine.
These B-movies were massive hits in Mexico and have since become cult classics in English-speaking countries even though only a handful of them were dubbed into English.