Film News: Female Lead Mexican Wrestling Films Showcase at Chicago’s Music Box on Sept. 8, 2022
CHICAGO – Get out your Lucha Libre Mexican Wrestling masks, a special film double feature is being presented by The National Museum of Mexican Art at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre. “The Bat-Woman” (1968) and “The Panther Women” (1967) have both had a 4K Restoration, score tickets and details by clicking FEMALE LUCHA LIBRE.
The double feature is hosted by Chicago Film programmer Raul Benitez and Viviana Garcia-Besne of the Permanencia Voluntaria Archivo Cinematográfico … whose family produced these films and that she restored from the original negatives. “The Bat-Woman” (La Mujer Murcielago) has wrestlers taking on female Satan worshipers, “The Panther Women (Las Mujeres Panteras) involves a sexy masked crime fighter who battles a mad scientist harvesting the glands of wrestlers. Both films are in Spanish with English subtitles.
’The Bat-Woman’ and ‘The Panther Women’ Double Feature
Photo credit: MusicBox.com
The Trailer for “The Bat-Woman”…
The Trailer for “The Panther Women”…
By PATRICK McDONALD |
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