In that same spirit…
Monster-of-the-Week: …here’s a special one-day-early edition of MOTW featuring a Mexican monster: Baron Vitelius d’Estera, title character of 1962’s El Baron del Terror, known to us gringos as The Brainiac. This perfectly wonderful South-of-the-Border spookshow stars Abel Salazar in the title role, a 17th-Century Mexican nobleman who is burned at the stake for dabbling in witchcraft. As he dies he vows revenge on the descendants of his persecutors when the comet overhead returns, & he’s as good as his word—he shows up in early 1960s Mexico City, & starts shape-shifting into a hideous ogre with a long snaky forked tongue handy to extract the grey matter of his victims...
Maybe he’s behind the empty skulls of the Arizona State Legislature.
The film is available on DVD; here’s a sample of its mayhem.
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