Icons of Lucha Libre Stamps

My good friend Roberto emailed me with some info on a stamp series in México. In 2008 they started with El Santo, and now they are releasing Mil Máscaras.

Here are some images:

These are pretty impressive. I'm hoping they will also honor my favorite luchador, Blue Demon, as well!

Captain America's hermano?

So today, I happened to find this awesome t-shirt:

Demonio Verde?

 Probably not Latin American ;)

¡Que hermosita!

Comes in girls and guys style shirt, and it's only $20 at Headline Shirts. We've got a Captain America, wearing a Blue Demon mask, and wearing the colors of México... Oh the things I want to buy, yet my paycheck doesn't arrive until Friday...

BTW, if any of you fans of my blog are the generous sort, I am a size L. :) Yeah, I kind of doubt that will happen either. Anyway, this is just me keeping everyone posted on my efforts to report all things lucha-libre!

Shout out to Lioncorn

I'm so glad I set up Google Alerts to hit me up on anything about Santo and Blue Demon. I've been trying to get as much new info on the current situation with the "Sexo y El Vampiro" edit of Tesoro de Dracula, so I setup the alerts. Yesterday Google Alerts sent me a link to this great site:

Lioncorn

This blog is really great, all sorts of info on great art, old weird movies, and other such bizarre interests that reflect my own. I'm so glad the internet can connect people with such niche interests. If it weren't for the internet, my girlfriend, Veronica, would have killed me by now from talking her ear off about all these movies that she really doesn't care about. She has a point though, they stink. It's like drinking tamarindo flavored Jarritos, either you hate it or you like it, or you tell yourself you should like it and eventually acquire a taste. So thank you, internet, for saving my relationship :)

PS I still can't drink tamarindo Jarritos. I love candy with tamarindo, but not drinks.

The Collection

Here's my dvd collection, with only a couple not stacked here, or even loaned out:

I've been collecting dvds since I received my first dvd player in 1999. I'm not even sure number of movies here, but it's a ton. Some friends call it "Mini Blockbuster." It's a huge collection, but it's also a part of my lifestyle. I enjoy drawing or painting while a movie is playing. Plus I don't have cable, so I watch films instead.

Let's get down to what I own in the lucha libre category:

Lionsgate Nuestro Cine Clásico-

Santo vs Las Lobas / Santo vs El Espectro del Estrangulador
Santo en El Museo de Cera / Santo y Blue Demon en El Mundo de Los Muertos
Santo contra Blue Demon en la Atlántida / Santo y Blue Demon contra Los Monstruos
Blue Demon Destructor De Espías / Pasaporte a la Muerte

Collección México en Pantalla-

Arañas Infernales

Rise Above Entertainment Santo Collection -

Santo en Atacan Las Brujas

Santo en Tesoro de Drácula
Santo y Blue Demon contra Drácula y Hombre Lobo
Santo y Blue Demon contra el Doctor Frankestein
Santo en La Venganza de la Momia
Santo y Mantequilla Nápoles en la Venganza de la Llorona

El Santo Collección (This series looks like a copy of Rise Above's series)-

El Tesoro de Moctezuma

Various-

Santo contra la Magia Negra
Santo: Infraterrestre
Mil Máscaras vs the Aztec Mummy

Santo Contra Los Zombies

Santo en Las Momias de Guanajuato

El Super Seis Los Luchadores Invencibles (six pack):

• Los Vampiros de Coyocan
• La Mansion de las 7 Momias
• Los Campeones Justicieros
• El Castillo de las Momias de Guanajuato
• Misterio en las Bermudas
• Vuelven Los Campeones Justicieros

Documentaries -

Lucha Libre: Life Behind the Mask

Cartoons-

Mucha Lucha: Heart of Lucha

Mucha Lucha: The Return of El Maléfico

El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera (This is actually on my iPad through iTunes.

Currently in the mail, heading my way-
Santo contra Las Mujeres Vampiro
Santo en La Venganza de las Mujeres Vampiro
Santo contra La Hija del Frankenstein


I've been wrangling my way into getting these at the best deals. I'm continually checking Half.com, eBay, Amazon, iOffer (watch the authenticity of dvds on iOffer, it's rampant with burned dvds), and now I'm using Santo & Friends for the harder to find films. Also, Super Strange Video has been recommended to me as well, but I haven't tried them yet. If you have a great recommendation for places to find these treasures, hit me up! jesse.acosta at gmail dot com !

I'm still on the hunt too. At first I really liked the Rise Above Entertainment series because they had a nice menu, subtitles, and overall were easier to find at first. But I started favoring the Lionsgate Double Feature discs more, simply because they had two films on one disc for fairly cheap. The dvds through the other various companies seem to cost quite a bit more. I've heard from some people that they find the Lionsgate discs at their Walmart, but I haven't found any myself.

Lucha films I'm looking for:

• Mucha Lucha dvd with the episode starring Blue Demon Jr.
• Poder Satanico
• Santo y Blue Demon contra Los Monstruos (a color version)
• Chanoc y Hijo del Santo contra Los Vampiros
• La Furia de Los Karatecas
• Mil Máscaras vs Las Vampiras
• Blue Demon en La Mafia Amarilla  
• La Mujer Murcielago
• Blue Demon y Zovek en La Invasión De Los Muertos
• Blue Demon En La Sombra Del Murcielago

If you see one available, especially at a decent price point, please send me a link!

Santo Sketchcard on Etsy

I feel weird tooting my own horn, but what the heck, this is my blog, right? Well, for those that don't know, I have an Etsy Shop. I sell a lot of my artwork on there, and currently I'm doing a series of horror sketch cards. But villains and monsters aren't anything without their heroic counterparts. So today I produced this Santo ACEO sketch card:

ACEOs (Artist Card Editions or Originals) are small originals created by artists. Perfect for collecting or trading! This is a 2½" × 3½" PSC ACEO Sketch Card of world famous luchador El Santo enmascarado de plata aka Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (September 23, 1917 - February 5, 1984).

El Santo has been in over 52 films, and has been featured in comic book and cartoon adaptations. He started his lucha libre career in the early 1930s, only to start slowing down by 1980. His son, Hijo del Santo, continues to wrestle and dons his father's mask.

Drawn in pencil, inked, then colored with prismacolor markers. On Canson heavyweight sketch cardstock.
ACEO sketch cards are shipped with archival sleeve, plus protected with cardboard.

Okay, back to our regularly scheduled programming... I just received Mondo Lucha A Go Go in the mail today, and last week I received Lucha Noir by Rafael Navarro and From Parts Unknown. Lastly, after being borrowed for what seemed like half an eternity, I finally got Santo y Blue Demon Contra Dracula y Hombre Lobo back from a friend. One of these will be reviewed within the next few days. I'll keep you posted!

Mummies a la Mexicana

This is the last documentary I'll post tonight. This is a documentary made at home by some film professor on Youtube. It's really interesting, and a tad slow. He lets a lot of the film clips do the talking for him. I really need to talk to this guy, and check out more of his work:

Episode 1 Part 1 "The Aztec Mummy"


Episode 1 Part 2 "More Aztec Mummies"


Mummies a la Mexicana: Episode 2 Part 1 "From Egypt to Mexico"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN8ZHQb7DXU&feature=fvwrel
Not sure why, but this guy didn't allow embedding with the second episode part 1. So, just follow the link above.

Mummies a la Mexicana: Episode 2 Part 2 "Guanajuato to Guatemala"


Again, I must say, great documentary! Lastly, I leave you with this really amazingly great trailer for a double feature of The Vampire's Coffin and The Aztec Mummy:

Mondo Macabro: Mexican Horror

This is a really great, but short, documentary on Mexican horror movies. They start with the early movies, especially those redubbed for American markets by K Gordon Murray. They start with cues from Universal Picture's Horror, then they move to the Santo and other luchadores versus monsters movies, then lastly the darker movies of the '70s to the near present.
As a side note, I still don't know why they called it "Mondo" Macabro... Maybe Macabro Mundo, or even El mundo del Macabro.

Part 1 of 3


Part 2 of 3


Part 3 of 3

New blog!

I've been in the mood to start a new blog for my ramblings related to old Mexican cinema, specifically lucha, and even Mexican comics. I'm an artist, comic enthusiast, movie collecting, Spanish Major. My art can be seen here http://nomadikk.deviantart.com/ and http://jesseacosta.net/. My main blog can be found here: http://jesseacosta.blogspot.com/.

I figured I'd separate some of my stuff, even though a lot will also overlap. Right now I'm on a Lucha movie scavenger hunt across the internet. I own a lot, but now it's getting difficult, and a little expensive. I'm planning on reviewing some of my favorites, and also trying to differentiate myself from the Lucha Diaries and Monstruos y Vampiros, both great resource blogs!

I'll get back to this blog shortly, I just wanted to start off with a simple entry to get things rolling.
I'll leave you a pic to my latest acrylic painting, Frankenstein's Monster:


This sucker is 18" x 24" inches on canvas, and is for sale at my Etsy site: http://etsy.me/fJU00T. I'm also working on the Bride now. I was thinking of doing Henry Frankenstein as well, and turning this into a triptych, but I figured someone would end up buying maybe two paintings, and leaving me stuck with the Doctor... lame.

Hablaremos pronto! Chau amigos!