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- Después de que un grupo de leprosos violentos se escapan de un sanatorio, robando varias granjas, los residentes de la ciudad exigen al sheriff que tome acción. Mientras tanto, un criminal local, une fuerzas con los leprosos a cometer aún más robos.
- In modern day Mexico, a man on the street is supernaturally killed after hearing the eerie sound of a wailing woman. We then arrive at the manor of an upper class family, who are celebrating their young son's birthday. A mysterious cloaked figure is eavesdropping on them, taking advantage of secret rooms and passages. Eventually, the intruder (who appears to be possesessed) kidnaps and attempts to murder the boy at a pagan altar using a sacrificial knife and stone. While this story unfolds, two flashbacks to the Elizabethan and Inquisition era are related, explaining the origins of the "wailing woman". In one, a woman with an illegitimate child has been abandoned by her lover. His formerly faithful friend forces him to a duel over this betrayal. The woman kills her baby and herself, and upon her death a wraith ascends skyward from her corpse. In the other story, an Indian woman has her baby taken from her by the authorities, and she descends into madness and suicide, with her spirit also leaving her body upon death. An ancient ring worn by the principals, as well as the knife and stone, are the bonds between the stories.
- Alfonso (Del Campo), Eduardo (Villatoro) and Eduardo's wife Cristina (Ruel) get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. There, the three amigos suffer personality changes, specially Cristina who tries to seduce Alfonso in a strange coincidence to a story told by an old monk. After some efforts to escape, Alfonso is trapped inside a jail and more strange and macabre situations happen.
- John and his class go on a school trip to the Tower of London. While he is there he loses his pet mouse and vows to return and find her later. Back in school, he is not very attentive and falls asleep during a lesson about electricity so his teacher sends him home. On the 'tube' there is a sudden flash, and John, the train and all of the passengers turn yellow. With the help of Nick (short for 'Electronic') John learns about electricity, invades the Tower of London and saves his pet mouse ... or was it a dream. This is the Powell & Pressburger touch applied to children's films.
- An undercover police officer is kidnapped by Dr. Campos who brainwashes him into becoming a member of his gang.
- El Santo helps an undercover agent take down a gang of drug smugglers.
- After being told that her family had made some of the worst films in the history of Mexican cinema, Viviana spent many years ashamed of that legacy and distanced herself from everything that the Calderón family had ever done. But a chance encounter sparked her interest and led to a 3-year quest to uncover the story of a family that had been involved in all aspects of the film business in Mexico and the United States -- theaters, distribution, and production -- whose rise and fall throughout the 20th century closely mirrored that of Mexican cinema as a whole, a once-powerful film industry that was now virtually nonexistent. The story that Viviana discovered through old film reels, photographs, newspaper articles, clips from the family's film vaults, and interviews with the survivors of Mexican cinema's golden eras included tales of romance and stories about movie and music legends like Ricardo Montalbán and the mambo king Damaso Perez Prado, and allowed her to make peace with a legacy of film pioneers.
- The cue marks sometimes referred to as cigarette burns of the original print of La Llorona (1933) are edited together.
- A short documentary that presents facts and stories about the making of Orson Welles' film noir The Lady from Shanghai (1947) as told by director Peter Bogdanovich, a great admirer and friend of Welles who interviewed the man several times over the years.
- Veteran British cinematographer Peter Sinclair discusses his film work with Pete Walker, Stanley Long and Madonna.
- Writer and filmmaker Simon Sheridan remembers his close friendship with the legendary 'King of Sexploitation' Stanley Long, who died in 2012.
- Abraham Castillo Flores, head programmer of Mexico's Mórbido Film Fest, explores the myth and the film LA LLORONA (1933).