Alias El Rata/ La Nave De Los Monstruos - Double Feature [DVD]

This budget priced DVD-10 from Lionsgate has two Mexican movies starring Lalo Gonzalez: the dramatic El Rata(1966) and the goofy, campy, off-the-wall La Nave de Los Monstruos(1960). Do keep in mind that this DVD has no English subtitles. Let me rephrase...it has no subtitles, period!El Rata/The Rat(1966): Lalo Gonzalez plays a thief-con artist who hides out in a small town. When he starts to fall in love with a pretty, dark haired, honest schoolteacher(Alma Delia Fuentes), he thinks about putting his crime filled past away and "turning over a new leaf". However, it will not be easy as a detective closes in on him! This is a solid Mexican movie from the groovy 1960's.La Nave de los Monstruos/The Monster Ship(1960): Lalo Gonzalez plays a Charro(Mexican cowboy) who battles a sexy, power hungry-femme fatale-vampire lady(Lorena Velasquez)and an army of gruesome monsters. His only allies are a pretty(and curvy!) humanoid woman(Ana Bertha Lepe)and her robot Thor. This film is honest about the fact that it's cheesy and that's why it's fun to watch...even without English subtitles. I've been crazy about this film ever since I saw it on Dish Network! Lorena Velasquez was so good at playing vampy, femme fatales. She also oozes sex appeal. I spent most of the movie looking at her..."assets"! LNDLM also has stock footage from a Russian sci-fi film and a robot in love with a jukebox! LOL! An English dubbed version of La Nave de Los Monstruos would've been perfect on Mystery Science Theater 3000.If you're a die hard fan of Mexican movies...and you're willing to put up with a lack of subtitles and DVD extras, this DVD is for you!

I've been a huge fan of the obscure spanish import "Ship Of Monsters" ever since I rented a copy from Video Wasteland mail order company way back in the late 90's. I had read about it in the Psychotronic Video Guide, and then I saw a trailer for the movie on one of those Something Weird video trailer compilation tapes. Both the movie and the trailer had very poor image quality, so I always figured this would be one of those forgotten movies that would never see the light of day on dvd. I can't describe how pleasantly shocked I was to find it being offered on Amazon, and released by Lions Gate, of all companies! Even though it's only available in spanish with no english subtitles, the image quality is pristine and flawless. The monsters in the film are silly looking, but the girls are absolute babes, and would be the prime reason for buying the film.

Ship of Monsters: Okay, it's low-budget; but they did manage to hire a beautiful woman or two and build a lovely spaceship interior set. Throw in some effects sequences stolen from the Russian "Road to the Stars" and you've got a movie that looks much better than you'd expect. That said, the hero is just excruciating, like the worst comic-relief character from US '50s sci-fi--think "Destination Moon" level of excruciating.

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I like this Dvd product,it is classic.I will like to find more dvd's on this Artist,El Piporro.Amazon I'm real pleased with this product.I'm very happy and sattisfied costomer.

Hilarious!!

Rogelio A. Gonzalez made more than 70 movies, but I wonder if he ever made anything near as good as this movie, which is perhaps one of the strangest films I’ve ever had the delight to witness.I was wondering how to even describe this movie. Basically, Gamma (Ana Bertha Lepe, Miss Mexico 1953 and a third-runner up for Miss Universe) and Beta (Lorena Velazquez, Miss Mexico 1960 and also Zorina queen of the vampires in Santo vs. Las Mujeres Vampiro) have come from Venus to find men to repopulate their planet. Of course, they can’t resist biting people or falling in love with Lauriano (Eulalio “Piporro” Gonzalez, one of the kings of golden age of Mexico comedy and the literal embodiment of Northern Mexican culture), a singing cowboy.Sure, that would set up a great movie, but this is Mexico. Which means that the ship has a robot named Tor who is collecting a whole bunch of monsters — why, the title translates as Ship of Monsters, surprise! — and those monsters are about to go crazy. There’s Uk the cyclops, the many armed Carasus, Prince of Mars Tagual, Utirr the spider and the dinosaur skeleton named Zok. Also, Tor falls for a jukebox. And some of the special effects were ripped off from the Russian movie Road to the Stars.Imagine if Ed Wood lived in Mexico, had a better budget, lucked out and had magnificent actresses willing to wear swimsuits and high heels, as well as a singing cowboy. Then we’d cut open slice open a peyote cactus and make him sit in a cave until he made this and it still might not this charming and odd.

本作は、メキシコのノルテーニョ(ギターを持った渡り鳥。電信が未発達の時代、旅をしながら各地の上方を歌で綴るメキシコ版吟遊詩人を元にした歌手)コメディの大スター、エウラリオ・ゴンザレスことピッポーロの主演映画2本をカップリングした両面DVD。　まだグローバリズムが各国の美意識に浸透する以前の、原メキシコ的な男性スターを垣間見る事が出来る作品群です。　初めて「ムトゥ」のラジニを観た時と似た印象を持ちました。１．La Rata（The Rat）：1966年作。ピッポーロがスリ、詐欺師のティモを演じる硬派の作品。スリのテクニックを見せるタイトルバックが快調です。犯罪者が女性との出会いから過去を清算する為に努力を致しますが…。本作でゴンザレスはメキシコ映画賞の主演男優賞にノミネートされました。２．　La nave de los monstrous(Ship of Monsters)：1960年作。ミス・メキシコの、アナ・ベルタ・レペとロレーナ・ベラスケスが男性を求めて地球にやってきた美女を演じ、彼女らに目を着けられるちょっとホラ吹きの伊達男に我らがピッポーロ。　本作内でも自作の曲を自慢の喉で聴かせてくれます。成田亨先生からはダメだしが出そうな、ブリキ缶の如きレトロなロボットやＰプロの怪物怪獣を思わせるスカムなデザインの怪物、そしてセクシーな宇宙人女性が大挙出場する事で一部の熱狂と多く失笑を買ったカルト作。　特に我が国のノーマン(「スペクトルマン」)やシンナーマン（「サンダーマスク」）を持わせる脳みそプルプルの巨頭エイリアンは、強烈な印象を残します。 他にもハリーハウゼンのサイクロプスを劣化させたような奴や毛むくじゃらのクモ的怪物、食肉類の頭蓋骨を持った白骨等盛り沢山でした。　ラストはモンスター、正義の味方入り乱れてのバトル・ロワイヤルで魅せてくれます。　吸血鬼に変身するベラスケスの艶姿にも注目。　アイドル映画にゲストの特撮怪獣が、東映時代劇ミュージカルにアコーディオンを持った侍が出演する感覚に似ている楽しい作品。　一部、ソ連宇宙開発映画「ソ連人工衛星 宇宙征服（Doroga k zvezda）'58」のフッテージを使用しています。　本DVDは米Lions Gate社から出たスタンダードサイズのDVDとして画質・音質は普通以下やや粗い物。　両面に一作ずつプリントされています。　信号形式はNTSCですが、リージョンは１ですので、ご自宅の再生環境にご注意を（日本は２）。　音声はなんとスペイン語のみ、字幕無し。　チャプターは切って有りますが、チャプターメニューは無し。　登場人物の簡単なバイオグラフィーが特典として収録されています（スペイン語）。