Increíble Profesor Zovek, El

Mexico • 1972 • 79m •

• Directed by: René Cardona. • Starring: Zovek, Tere Velázquez, Germán Valdés, José Gálvez, Nubia Martí, Yerye Beirute, Arturo Silva, René Barrera, Juan José Martínez Casado, Gloria Chávez, Henry Trim, María Cardinal. • Music by: Raúl Lavista.

An airplane carrying three outstanding scientists crashes. Nobody survives. Zovek, using his great psychic powers, learns that only two of the scientists actually died. The third one, Professor Druso, gets off the plane in Los Angeles, leaving a bomb on board. Druso plans to use the works of the deceased scientists to transform people into monsters or cannibal midgets. Zovek is drugged and brought before Druso, who cannot dominate the hero. Will Zovek manage to defeat Druso's accomplices?!

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Like Houdini, Professor Zovek is an escape artist; like The Shadow, he can cloud men's minds; like Bruce Lee, he has mastered the martial arts- and, like a 1960s hippie, he wears a fringed buckskin outfit (with headband). All of which makes him a formidable opponent when one is looking to conquer the world. Switching to a chest-revealing vest, Zovek and two sidekicks travel to what amounts to the island of Dr. Moreau to stop the would-be world conqueror. There, in the bowels of a really cool looking Mayan temple (or somesuch), Zovek and company find midget manimals rotting away in cells. Alas, the trio are captured- but Zovek escapes his captors (by dint of sheer willpower, he makes the chains binding him fall away) and releases the mini-manimals, who swarm all over anyone who gets in their way, devouring them. Zovek finds himself doing battle with a giant black man with fangs in the film's finale (which takes place atop the temple, above a flaming pit). Will our hero survive? You do the math. (And don't let the fact that this was his only movie fool you.).

Review by poe426 from the Internet Movie Database.

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