#lorena velazquez

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El planeta de las mujeres invasoras (1966) Mexican Poster

AKA Planet of the Female Invaders

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When the luteal phase dysmorphia starts to sunset.

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Lorena Velazquez

El Santo V the Vampire Women 1962

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Lorena Velazquez.

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• Santo contra las mujeres vampiro (1962) Dir. Alfonso Corona Blake

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Lorena Velazquez- SANTO VS THE VAMPIRE WOMEN (1961)

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DOCTOR OF DOOM (1963) Reviews of Mexican ape monster and female wrestlers movie

DOCTOR OF DOOM (1963) Reviews of Mexican ape monster and female wrestlers movie

Doctor of Doom is a 1963 Mexican science fiction horror film about a mad scientist who transplants an ape’s brain into a man to kidnap women. Directed by René Cardona from a screenplay written by Alfredo Salazar, the movie stars Lorena Velázquez, Armando Silvestre, Elizabeth Campbell Plot: A mad scientist terrorizes a city by kidnapping young women with his ape-man Gomar and then using them as…

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Lorena Velazquez as Beta in La nave de los monstruos (1960)

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Lorena Velazquez.

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• La inocente (1972) Dir. Rogelio A. González

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Hello! May I get some fc help for a Domican female character that is around the age of 25-30? Thanks in advance!

Aimee Carrero (1988) Puerto Rican / Dominican.

Nathalie Emmanuel (1989) Afro- English, Saint Lucian, Dominican.

Akari Endo (1989) Japanese / Dominican.

Sharlene Taulé (1989) Dominican.

Amara La Negra (1990) Afro-Dominican.

Keila Lorena (1990) Dominican.

Jenn Morel (1990) Afro-Dominican.

Dia Michelle (1990) Afro-Dominican.

Laura Ivette (1990) Dominican.

Gabriella Lascano (1991) Puerto Rican and Dominican.

Harmony Santana (1991) Puerto Rican and Dominican - trans.

Denise Mercedes (1991) Dominican.

Clarissa Molina (1991) Dominican.

Yaris Sanchez (1991) Afro-Dominican.

Ana Marte (1992) Afro-Dominican.

Yaritza Reyes (1993) Afro-Dominican.

DaniLeigh (1994) Afro-Dominican.

María Isabel (1995) Afro-Dominican.

Selangie Arlene Henriquez (1995) Afro-Dominican.

Jamila Velazquez (1995) Puerto Rican, Ecuadorian, Dominican.

Leslie Grace (1995) Dominican [Spanish, African, possibly other].

Haskiri Velazquez (1995) Dominican and Puerto Rican.

Nezza / babynezza (1995) Colombian and Dominican.

Arisce Wanzer (1996) Afro-Dominican - trans.

Diana Veras (1996) Afro-Dominican.

Rebecca / bearybecca (1996) Dominican / Cuban.

Mairaly Rodriguez (1996) Afro-Dominican.

I assume you meant Dominican so here!

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The Ship of Monsters

Check me out, I’m being topical!  I had another review almost finished for today, but when I saw the news I knew I had to set that aside and find a movie about life on Venus.  This one is a ridiculous Mexican film starring Lorena Velazquez from Samson vs the Vampire Women (looking only slightly less like Cher) and one of those amazing cardboard robots you only get in the very worst of late 50’s and early 60’s sci-fi.

An atomic war on the planet Venus has killed off all the males, so an expedition is sent out in search of replacements, consisting of a native Venusian named Gamma, her Uranian navigator Beta, and their robot Tor.  After promising the Empress that they will bring back only the most manly of men, they wander the solar system a while collecting creatures with penises before an engine problem forces them to land on Earth.  The first human they meet there is Laureano Gomez, a singing cowboy with a well-earned reputation for telling tall tales.  One might assume one could predict the rest of the movie from there… but then Beta turns on Gamma and reveals that her true mission all along was to conquer a planet to feed the vampires of Uranus!

I gotta say… I did not see that coming.

The Ship of Monsters is supposed to be a comedy.  It’s seldom funny when it’s trying to be, although it mercifully avoids being the kind of desperately unfunny a lot of bad comedies are… possibly this is because it’s in Spanish, and by the time I’ve realized something is stupid there’s another subtitle to distract me. The jokes, such as they are, are pretty standard.  Tor the robot was created by an alien race, who were aware of Earth but never bothered exploring it because they thought the inhabitants weren’t very intelligent.  Laureano is in the habit of telling ridiculous stories to his drinking buddies, so of course when he claims the Earth is being invaded by space monsters they don’t believe him.  That sort of thing.  The movie is much funnier when it’s just showing us absurd situations, but to nobody’s surprise, The Ship of Monsters is at its funniest when it’s trying to be serious.

This hilarity comes in many forms, covering just about all the possible bases for a dirt-cheap 1960 sci-fi film.  We have spaceship sets made of cardboard, covered with buttons that don’t actually press and levers conveniently placed so people can bump into them during fight scenes.  We have Tor, with his tin can body that’s always a little dinged up but never in the same places, giving us clues as to what order the scenes might have been shot in.  He also has wiggly spring antennae and makes a little whirring noise every time he moves. We have space babes in silver bathing suits and glittery high heels.  Vampire-Beta, sporting plastic fangs that look like they came from the bottom of a cereal box, could be the female counterpart to the guy from Dracula vs Frankenstein, and the puppet used to represent her in flight is nearly as bad as the one from The Devil Bat.

The ‘monsters’ of the title are a bulging-brained Martian prince, a scaly cyclops, a spidery creature with venomous fangs, and the mobile skeleton of what appears to be a *damn worwelf (he tells us that his race has Evolved Beyond Flesh... apparently not Beyond Bones, though).  The costumes are all terrible, particularly the warwulf puppet, whose backbone extends into his mouth and who has to be carried around with his feet dangling in any shot that’s not a close-up.  It’s nice, though, that a little imagination went into them, and somebody gave a bit of thought to the idea that a monstrous appearance is relative.  The Martian tells Beta that he admires her ambition and might even marry her if she weren’t so ugly by his planet’s standards.

At the end, naturally, this alien invasion is defeated by Laureano, his twelve-year-old brother, and a cardboard robot, while Gamma just stands around and screams.  With a movie like this I expect nothing less.  The denouement contains my favourite intentional joke in the whole thing, in which Gamma stays on Earth with her True Love, and Tor the robot takes his, the Jukebox, back to Venus with him!  Tom Servo would have given a speech to congratulate the happy couple, and I can just see him breaking down into happy tears before he got five lines in.

(The wirwalf skeleton is not present at the climactic fight, by the way… no explanation is offered, and I strongly suspect that they broke the puppet trying.  I rather enjoy this omission, because it lets me imagine him getting lost or maybe buried by an enterprising dog, and finally finding his way back to the landing site only to learn that they’ve left without him.)

I called Laureano a cowboy but he only has one cow.  Her name is Lolobrijida and she is the very first time I have ever seen a movie spur a hero into action by killing his cow.  She gets a proper Teenagers from Outer Space death, with her skeleton left behind propped up by metal struts like a dinosaur in a museum!

I also called him a singing cowboy, which he is – there are several songs, including one in which he tries to explain to Gamma and Beta what ‘love’ means.  The songs have pleasant but forgettable Mexican pop melodies, and none of the lyrics make a whole lot of sense.  Being translated over-literally from Spanish probably didn’t do them any favours (my own Spanish tops out at yo no tengo dinero), but I still can’t imagine that the What Is Love song clarified anything.

Laureano himself comes across as kind of a fool, but he’s not actually a full-on idiot, which is quite important.  If he were the kind of one-dimensional ‘comedic nitwit’ embodied in characters like Dropo, or the janitor from Reptilicus, he’d be insufferable.  Laureano is no genius, but he’s got personality traits besides being stupid – he cares deeply for his little brother Chuy and for his animals, and he doesn’t treat Gamma and Beta’s appearance as two women for the price of one.  Very quickly he decides that Gamma is the one he loves, and he sticks to that, doing his best to let Beta down gently even when she offers to make him a king.  He’s also smart enough to trick Beta into dancing with him so he can steal the device she uses to control the rocket and Tor, and to listen to Gamma when she tells him about the various monsters’ weaknesses.

Gamma and Beta, on the other hand, don’t have a lot to them besides the basic fact that Gamma is the Nice One and Beta is Evil. Gamma starts out in the story with a strong sense of duty, and it’s a bit disappointing to see her abandon that because of Tru Luv.  I would have liked the ending better if she’d taken Laureano home with her so that the two of them could be the Adam and Eve of the new Venusian race.  Meanwhile, Beta shows no sign of any loyalty except to herself and her own ambition.  Her original mission, to secure Earth as a blood supply for the Uranians, falls by the wayside as she decides she’s going to conquer and rule the planet herself.

So The Ship of Monsters isn’t exactly a feminist manifesto, but neither is it complete misogynistic garbage like Project Moon Base.  The whole premise, after all, rests on a planet of women being able to develop space travel all on their own!  This is a fairly surprising plot point, because in many ‘planet of women’ movies like Fire Maidens of Outer Space or Cat Women of the Moon, the ladies need the virile Earth Men to come to them.

There’s also a little bit of actual science peeking out of the cracks.  The moment for launch of the rocket from Venus is determined by when ‘the elliptical orbits coincide’.  Launch timing is, indeed, a delicate art depending very much on what’s orbiting where. There’s also the moment when, trying to land on Earth, Gamma and Beta worry that the friction, combined with our oxygen-rich atmosphere, will set their ship on fire.  This stuff is pretty impressive coming from a time when the moon landing was still nearly a decade away.  There are even a couple of scenes in zero gravity that honestly aren’t totally terrible.  I mean, I’ve seen better, but I’ve also seen much, much worse.

There’s also one weirdly prescient moment when Laureano, telling one of his silly stories in the pub, describes being surrounded by dinosaurs – only to get a laugh a moment later when he mentions that they had beautiful plumage.  I’m not sure whether this is meant to be a joke in that Laureano is exaggerating an actual encounter with an angry bird into something more fearsome (I think we’re to assume that the whole story is totally made up), or whether it’s just supposed to be funny that Laureano thinks dinosaurs had feathers instead of scales.  Either way, it’s the equivalent of the moon Fornax in Menace from Outer Space being so reminiscent of Io.  There’s no way the writers could have known that, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

The Ship of Monsters is very cheap and very dumb, but it’s good fun for those of us who like crummy old alien invasion movies, and I recommend it to anybody in that demographic.  As for actual life on Venus… I feel like a lot of the people getting excited are too young to remember when Bill Clinton told the world that we had totally found life on Mars.  Humans have been discovering life on other planets for about two hundred years and every single one of those ‘discoveries’ has turned out to be either a mistake or an outright lie.  We have plenty enough to panic about this year without a Venusian invasion.

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Transgender Day of Remembrance 2020

As you read/say their names (especially if you are cis or a white trans person), think about how you are going to work harder to protect the lives of and amplify the voices of Black trans women. And then do it.

SAY THEIR NAMES

Corbin Ray Bach Oct 6th, 2019, Kentucky

Christine Zephier, Oct 10th, 2019, Minnesota

Daphne Dorman, Oct 11th, 2019, California

Brianna “BB” Hill, Oct 14th, 2019, Missouri

Nikki Kuhnhausen, Dec 7th, 2019, Oregon

Angel Rose Garcia, Dec 10th, 2019, Maryland

Alice Carter ("Baby Alice"), Dec 18th, 2019, Washington, D. C.

Yahira Nesby, Dec 19th, 2019, New York

Mia Penny, Dec 29th, 2019, Washington, D.C.

Dustin Parker, Jan 1st, 2020, Oklahoma

Alex McCray, Jan 4th, 2020, Missouri

Camila María Concepción, Feb 21st, 2020, California

Neulisa Luciano Ruiz, Feb. 24th, Puerto Rico

Yampi Mendez Arocho, March 5th, 2020, Puerto Rico

John Scott Devore/Scottlyn Kelly Devore, Mar 12th, 2020, Georgia

Monica Diamond, Mar 18th, 2020, North Carolina

Lexi "Ebony" Sutton, Mar 28th, 2020, New York

Lorena Borjas, Mar 30th, 2020, New York

Ashley Moore, Apr 1st, 2020, New Jersey

Henrietta Robinson, Apr 3rd, 2020, Florida

Johanna Metzger, Apr 11th, 2020, Maryland

Penelope Diaz Ramirez, April 13th, 2020 Puerto Rico

Serena Angelique Velazquez Ramos, April 21st, 2020 Puerto Rico

Layla Pelaez Sanchez, April 21st, 2020 Puerto Rico

Nina Pop, May 3rd, 2020, Missouri

Helle Jae O’Regan, May 6th, 2020, Texas

Jayne Thompson, May 9th, 2020, Colorado

Tony McDade, May 27th, 2020, Florida

Selena Reyes-Hernandez, May 31st, 2020, Illinois

Name Unknown, Jun 6th, 2020, Illinois

Riah Milton,Jun 9th, 2020, Ohio

Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells, Jun 9th, 2020, Pennsylvania

Brian Powers ("Eagle"), Jun 13th, 2020, Ohio

Brayla Stone, Jun 25th, 2020, Arkansas

Tatiana Hall, Jun 30th, 2020, Pennsylvania

Merci Mack Richey, Jun 30th, 2020, Texas

Draya McCarty, Jun 30th, 2020, Louisiana

Shaki Peters, Jul 1st, 2020, Louisiana

Bree Black, Jul 3rd, 2020, Florida

Summer Taylor, Jul 4th, 2020, Washington

Angela Martinez Gómez, Jul 6th, 2020, California

Marilyn Monroe Cazares, Jul 13th, 2020,California

Tiffany Harris or ("Dior H Ova"), Jul, 26th, 2020, New York

Queasha Hardy, Jul 27th, 2020, Louisiana

Aja Raquell Rhone-Spears or ("Rocky Rhone"), Jul 28th, 2020, Oregon

Kee Sam, Aug 13th, 2020, Louisiana

Shelley Lynn Rose, Aug 26th, 2020

Elie Che, Aug 31st, 2020, New York

Isabella Mia Lofton, Sep 7th, 2020, New York

Gia Valentina Romualdo Rodríguez, Sep 15th, 2020, Florida

Aerrion Burnett, Sep 19th, 2020, Missouri

Mia Green, Sep 28th, 2020, Pennsylvania

Michelle “Michellyn” Ramos Vargas, September 30th, 2020, Puerto Rico

Felycya Harris, October 2020, Georgia

Brooklyn Deshuna, October 7, 2020, Louisiana

Sara Blakwood, October 11, 2020, Indiana

Angel Unique, October 25, 2020, Tennessee

Yunieski Carey Herrera, November 17, 2020, Florida

These are only the names of REPORTED murders in the USA for the year. The global total is roughly 350. 350 transgender sisters, brothers, and siblings taken from this world. LOVE AND SUPPORT TRANS PEOPLE WHILE THEY ARE STILL ALIVE

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Atacan las brujas "Attack of the Witches" - Mexico, 1968

Atacan las brujas “Attack of the Witches” – Mexico, 1968

Atacan las brujas “Attack of the Witches” aka Santo en Atacan las brujas – is a 1968 Mexican supernatural horror film directed by José Díaz Morales from a story and screenplay by Rafael García Travesi and Fernando Osés. It stars Santo, Lorena Velázquez and María Eugenia San Martín.

A young woman has a strange dream featuring stuffed animals, lizards, sexy witches and their brawny henchmen, and…

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Otto Sirgo for Charles.

If people are not happy with Victoria, then what about Diana Bracho (I think people will have a heart attack due to name but it’ll give major PR😏) or Lorena Velazquez.

Omg didnt know u were mexican as well 🤣🤣🤣 till the telenovelas casting, but while I agree Adela Noriega would be fit to play Kate, I think Victoria Ruffo shouldnt be Camilla, as she always cries in her telenovelas that is the kind of character that plays, you know, the victim and wrong done, so I think play Megs would be better for the Oprah Interview. But the only problem is the age 🤣🤣🤣 Well there is botox, but botox can only do so much 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I am not mexican though haha but I do live in Mexico. I always laugh when someone mentions that Victoria Ruffo cried a lot in Corona de Lágrimas because welp, it’s Corona de LÁGRIMAS lmao.

Adela Noriega cried a loooot in Amor Real, like I am currently watching it and there has not been a single chapter where she does not cry.

Who would be Charles though? 🤣

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Happy birthday Lorena Velazquez, Zorina, queen of the vampires. “Zorina, hear our cry, v-i-c-t-o-r-y!”