Chabelo and Pepito vs. The Monsters (1973) Poster

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This is the mexican movie you must see!!!!!!!!
rogelioduron2 August 2002
Warning: Spoilers
Let me tell you a great story about 2 kids that ditch a boyscout camping to look for the devils treasure on a cave and find themselves surrounded by all the classic horror movie monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein,Werewolf,Creature of the black Lagoon and the Mummy, plus robots, evil men that try to do brain trasnplants to all the people that get in their way and no food!

Well,thats basically the story to this comedy that i have loved for a long time now, im mexican and there is no way this movie is EVER going to come out with english subtitles, but theres always hope, Mister Xavier Lopez "Chabelo" resembles a young tony curtis and The boy who plays pepito a young Haley Joel osment, both oscar worthy on their performances but never got the attention, marketing or a good agent, the thing is that this movie has "Oscar for the movie of the year" written all over it, its funny, its great. -spoilers- There a scene that is great where Dracula is attacking pepito and chabelo as fat and big as he is, at the moment he has been fasting for 3 days cuase of hiding in the caves so hes very hungry and pepito tells him: "Hey Chabelo...FOOD.....Food...Vampire sandwiches are great" and chabelo chases dracula off a balcony. Its a great film. I love it. Pepitos sister is Silvia Pasquel..a hottie on the 70´s.
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8/10
Chabelo and Pepito Drop Out of the Boy Scouts and Meet a Ton of Monsters!
Kalashnikovin13 July 2022
I am a great fan of the cinema of my country, from time to time there are wonders like Macario (1960) or also Maria Candelaria (1943), but here, in the middle of the 70s They decided to make a movie that I have seen Millions and has never bored me!.

From the hand of Chabelo and Pepito they bring us a Quality movie that despite its Obvious Special Effects and Chilling Sound Effects Works very well as a Horror Movie and also as a Comedy.

The performance of Chabelo and Pepito is Masterful, both are very funny and it is easy to get attached to them, the other scouts are not as memorable but they are decent characters who are in the environment, it also has classic characters from horror movies like Dracula and Frankenstein!, There is also a Humanoid Lizard that produces some Too Horrible Sounds that makes the movie a little more Creepy.

The Music of the Movie is Great, it is very well composed and there is a lot left in the atmosphere of the Movie.

The Special Effects are Too Obvious and Ridiculous for a Current Movie, but for that Time they were a Wonder and besides I am not one of those who want quality special effects by force, but I do not want them to be Terrible either and this Movie can have mediocre effects but it is understood that it was his time!

The Villains are decent, they are several Characters from the classic Horror movies and also an Organization of Robots that want to transplant the Brain to the Scouts, by the way the Laboratory scenarios are very Good!.

In itself, Chabelo and Pepito Against the Monsters is not the Best in the World but it is an Enjoyable Movie that combines Terror and Comedy to Perfection!, For all that has been said before, I rate this movie with an 8.
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