After a couple that prefers snogging in a cave to walking through a cave has a meeting with a terrible creature which leads to a dead male and a mad female snogger, world famous scientist Professor Diaz (Jose Elias Moreno) comes to the obvious conclusion: somewhere in the snog-hating cave system must be the remnants of either some ancient civilization or some nice pre-historic creatures just waiting for a scientist to discover them.
Under this circumstances Diaz just has to mount an expedition, so he grabs himself a few random scientists - one even a woman (Kitty de Hoyos)! That makes two women in an expedition that also includes the Professor's female assistant Laura (Columba Dominguez) and a black man! Don't worry about those evil liberal mind control rays though (unless you want to buy some tinfoil - in that case, send me an email), the black guy's the cook and not allowed to say much, while one of the women is of rather dubious character and Laura the designated kidnap victim.
It turns out that there's really a lot going on in these caves: there are quite aggressive rubber bats, a blood-drinking cyclops, lava rivers, river rivers, snakes, random lizards and even more random armadillos, as well as giant spiders and even a fuzzy-furry, flying and swimming man-bat dude who takes quite a shine to Laura. Unfortunately, he does not know that most women don't like to eat raw rat and his shot at love does not end too well. As if this wasn't enough trouble for one expedition, the discovery of diamonds leads to...MURDER!
Directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna who was also responsible for Santo's epic fight against certain Martian invaders, Aventuras is a nice little adventure film with horror bits, stylistically not far from lucha movies of the same time, just without masked people, but still of a very agreeable pulpy snappiness.
The whole thing is very straightforward and does not lead to much deep philosophical thought for the viewer, nor does it present itself with great aesthetic flourishes. Instead the film tells a fine tale about a silly little expedition that meets a few equally silly (but cool) monsters in a cave. Which is obviously more than alright with me.
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