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The Body Snatcher

The Body Snatcher

1957 · 80 min · ★ 5.9 · Horror, Science Fiction

A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...

Directed by Fernando Méndez · Written by Fernando Méndez

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