Mexico Maleficarum: Resurrecting 20th Century Mexican Horror Cinema
Movies featured by the academy museum 6-10-2022. Meant to be watched in pairs starting with El Vampiro and Cronos.
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/series/mexico-maleficarum-resurrecting-20th-century-mexican-horror-cinema
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- DirectorFernando MéndezStarsAbel SalazarAriadne WelterCarmen MontejoA pretty young Mexican girl returns to her hometown to make funeral arrangements for her beloved aunt, who has just died. Soon she begins to hear disturbing stories about the town being infested by vampires, and she eventually begins to suspect that her remaining aunt and the mysterious next door neighbor may be involved.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsFederico LuppiRon PerlmanClaudio BrookA mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
- DirectorChano UruetaStarsRosita ArenasArmando CalvoIsabela CoronaA husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch's mirror to take her revenge.
- DirectorGilberto Martínez SolaresStarsSantoAlejandro MorenoPilar PellicerThis time Santo and Blue Demon must take on a 300 year-old witch with a really bad attitude. She raises a legion of zombies and sends them to fight Santo in his home and in the rings. Talk about a rude interruption to a wrestling match .
- DirectorRafael BaledónStarsRosita ArenasAbel SalazarRita MacedoAfter fifteen years of being away, a woman returns with her husband to her aunt's hacienda in the Mexican countryside, without realizing that her relative is a sorceress who wants to use her to bring an evil witch back to life.
- DirectorCarlos Enrique TaboadaStarsAna Patricia RojoElsa María GutiérrezLeonor LlausásA 10 year old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn.
- DirectorRogelio A. GonzálezStarsEulalio GonzálezAna Bertha LepeLorena VelázquezTwo extraterrestrial women are sent on a mission by the regent of Venus to search for a male of another planet.
- DirectorRené CardonaStarsAriadne WelterElizabeth CampbellTongoleleThe Panther women are worshipers of Satan and perform rituals in their honor and sacrifice. The fighters will face them up and down the ring.
- DirectorMiguel MoraytaStarsBegoña PalaciosErna Martha BaumanRaúl FarellCount Cagliostro, whose family has tried for generations to rid the world of vampires, instructs his daughter and her fiance to protect several valuable documents.
- DirectorMiguel MoraytaStarsErna Martha BaumanRafael del RíoTito JuncoA doctor and his assistant hunt down a vampire named Count Frankenhausen, who is terrorizing the populace.
- DirectorRafael BaledónStarsJulio AlemánPatricia CondeJoaquín CorderoYoung women are being abducted by a masked killer. Graverobbers and poison darts also feature as our heroine discovers which of the men in her life is the psycho.
- DirectorChano UruetaStarsAbel SalazarAriadne WelterDavid SilvaIn 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. 300 years later, a comet which was passing overhead on the night of the Baron's execution returns to earth, bringing with it the Baron in the form of a horrible, brain-eating monster that terrorizes the Inquisitor's descendants.
- DirectorChano UruetaStarsLilia del ValleRamón GayJulio VillarrealThieves break into a scientist's laboratory to steal a secret formula, and in the process they kill his daughter. Enraged, he develops a formula that will turn an extremely ugly woman into a spectacular beauty, and then uses the woman to take his revenge on those responsible for his daughter's murder.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAxel JodorowskyBlanca GuerraGuy StockwellA former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".
- DirectorServando GonzálezStarsEnrique LizaldeEnrique AguilarCarlos CardánA woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
- DirectorFernando MéndezStarsGastón SantosRafael BertrandMapita CortésTwo doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.
- DirectorBenito AlazrakiStarsElvira QuintanaRamón GayRoberto G. RiveraFour men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.
- DirectorCarlos Enrique TaboadaStarsMarga LópezMaricruz OlivierAlicia BonetGirls that were punished to sat at a boarding school during Spring Break have no idea the school is haunted by the restless spirit of a former student seeking revenge.
- DirectorIsela VegaStarsIsela VegaIrma SerranoEmilio FernándezVenusita falls in love with the son of a wealthy family whose mother sends her son off to the United States in order to keep the two apart. Not to be rejected so easily, Venusita visits Saurina the sorceress, who comes up with a spell that kills off the merchant and zaps the son back home--but Venusita's problems are far from over.
- DirectorJuan López MoctezumaStarsClaudio BrookDavid SilvaTina RomeroAfter the death of her parents, a young girl arrives at a convent and brings a sinister presence with her. Is it her enigmatic imaginary friend, Alucarda, who is to blame? Or is there a satanic force at work?