Florida-based film distributor K. Gordon Murray, the poor man's Walt Disney, spun matinee gold by dubbing cheaply-purchased genre films from Mexico and elsewhere and then promoting them with nonstop ballyhoo such as offering patrons "blood" cocktails. This package from 1968 was comprised of two Mexican-made tales of terror. Originally titled Muñecos Infernales, 1961's The Curse of the Doll People was directed by the prolific Benito Alazraki (Santo vs the Zombies) and starred Ramón Gay (The Robot vs the Aztec Mummy) and pulchritudinous star of Spanish-language musicals, Elvira Quintana. It was co-billed with 1957's The Vampire, aka El Vampiro, which featured Germán Robles (Neutron Battles the Karate Assassins) as the titular bloodsucker and Abel The Braniac Salazar as his nemesis Dr. Enrique.
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