Countess Mayra (Gina Romand) is the villainess in the 1970 Mexican sci-fi film "The Vengeance of the Vampire Women". The original title of the film in Spanish is "La venganza de las mujeres vampiro".
In the pre-credits sequence, vampire Mayra is staked while in her coffin, with blood welling up from her chest. Fast forward over a century later, Countess Mayra is brought back to life by scientist, Dr. Igor Brancov (Victor Junco). He does this by transfusing the blood from a dancer (Patricia Ferrer) at a local go-go club. After reviving her, he plans to use her power to take over the world. Mayra has her own plans, as she wants to kill the descendant of the man who destroyed her followers after they emigrated to Mexico. This happens to be Santo, the masked wrestler.
Mayra accompanies Dr. Igor to a wrestling match where Santo is in action. While there, Mayra gives Santos' opponent a mental command to kill him. Despite this, Santo is able to win.
Later that night, Mayra visits Santo while he is sleeping. She stabs him, but discovers that it's just a dummy. The real Santo is behind her laughing. He grabs her and they struggle, but Mayra turns into a bat and flies away.
Mayra picks up a young man in the disco; they go back to his apartment and he's drained of blood. Santo goes looking for Mayra in the grotto, and Paty (Norma Lazareno) follows. But she's being followed by Gitano (Rene Barrera), who kidnaps her and drives away. But then she knocks him out with her shoe and drives back to the grotto to get Santo. However, while she's looking for Santo, Gitano wakes up and drives away. Which leaves us right back where we started!
Mayra is starting to rebuild her vampire forces, including the go-go dancer, her boyfriend, the pickup from the disco, and some others. She sends them out to "recruit" new followers. Since the disco has turned out to be a fertile hunting ground, Mayra and the young male vampire go back. Robles and Beto are waiting; Paty, "disguised" in a long wig, head-band, and big sunglasses, is also there. The young vampire picks her up, Robles and Beto try to stop them, and they all wind up prisoners of Mayra. However, Paty calls Santo on a pocket radio he'd given her; she also stuffs it in the mouth of the vampire man when he tries to bite her, and flees, but is recaptured.
Santo arrives at the mansion where Paty was being held (it's Brancov's lab), and is caught and thrown into the cellar where Brancov keeps his monster. The "monster" is a muscular gu. Santo bursts into the lab where Robles and Beto are tied up. A fight ensues, Brancov's monster runs in and kills his creator but is fatally stabbed as he does so. A fire breaks out.
One of the henchmen tells Santo where Mayra's grotto is located. Paty is ready to be sacrified when Santo, Robles and Beto show up. Another fight! The female followers, wearing white negligees, merely wave their arms like they're flying and utter "bat" noises. Robles sets the vampires' coffins on fire, but Mayra turns into a bat and flies out.
Mayra has to return to the grotto, where Santo and the others are waiting. Santo stakes her, she screams, turns back into the green mummy, then crumbles into dust. Santo, Robles, Paty and Beto pick their way through the smoldering remains of the coffins and leave.
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- Gina Romand appeared as Dr. Freda Frankenstein in the 1972 Mexican sci-fi film "Santo vs La Hija de Frankenstein".
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