Cinema Detroit presents an EL SANTO double feature at Planet Ant

Cinema Detroit and Planet Ant are teaming up to give independent cinema a home in Detroit. Join us for specially curated films for events produced by Cinema Detroit and hosted by Planet Ant

Immediately recognizable by his distinctive silver mask, the heroic wrestler El Santo (‘The Saint’) was Mexico’s most popular luchador, becoming a folk hero and the star of a hugely popular series of action films. Our show is the Detroit première of beautiful new 4K restorations of the first two films in the Santo series.
In SANTO VS. EVIL BRAIN (Santo contra cerebro del mal), the dastardly Doctor Campos kidnaps and brainwashes scientists. When undercover detective Santo falls prey to Campos’ scheme, Lieutenant Zambrano (Enrique Zambrano) and El Incognito (Fernando Osés, who wrote the script) must come to his assistance to foil Campos’ plans.
Meanwhile, in the same year’s SANTO VS. INFERNAL MEN (Santo contra hombres infernales), the trio of Santo, El Incognito, and Zambrano team up once again to fight a band of drug smugglers.
EVIL BRAIN and INFERNAL MEN were filmed in Cuba as Castro’s revolutionaries entered Havana. The filmmakers — Mexican genre masters Joselito Rodriguez, Jorge Garcia-Besné, and Enrique J. Zambrano — were forced to flee with the unprocessed 35mm negative smuggled inside a coffin. The celluloid birth of a true screen legend may have been difficult, but it led to 50 additional Santo films.
Don’t miss this Very Special Cinco de Mayo Double Feature presented with Cinema Lamont!
Mexico/Cuba. 1961. Restoration by Permanencia Voluntaria, Nicholas Winding Refn, and the Academy Film Archive.
In Spanish with English subtitles
Written and directed by Joselito Rodríguez
Total running time: 145 min. plus 10 minute intermission

Doors at 5:00p | Show begins Promptly at 5:30p | $13 online *

Attached bar Ghost Light opens at 5p

*Online sales end 1 (one) Hour before the start of a performance. If online sales are closed, there may still be tickets available for purchase at the box office.

Presented by Planet Ant

Planet Ant Theatre, Inc. is a 501c3 nonprofit organization; donations in support of our mission to provide vital resources to artists are accepted at planetant.com/donate.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Ant Hall, 2320 Caniff Street, Hamtramck, United States