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From Guadalajara, Jalisco comes the really
cool Art Rock ensemble DAK or
Descartes
a Kant led by the very charismatic Sandrushka
Petrova AKA Sandra Rodriguez Michel. Group
founded in 2007 and in 2023 they released their
great and exciting album "After Destruction" |
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Carlos Enrique Taboada a celebrated
maker of
ghost stories and horror thriller drama, here with
the Trio: Más negro que la noche 1975, Rapiña
1975 and his masterpiece Veneno para las Hadas
1986. Finally released in decent quality by Vinegar |
Mexican
Gothic: The Films of Carlos Enrique Taboada
Direction, script: Carlos E Taboada, production: México
1975-1986
Cast: Ana Patricia Rojo / Claudia Islas / German Robles
Blu-ray in spanish audio with english subtitles, region all
US Vinegar Syndrome 2 disc 2023 bluray edition |
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A Fascinating and Riveting horror-drama about a
ten year old girl who believes in Black Magic and
who thinks she's a Witch, and drags her friend
into her chaotic world ending in catastrophe. From
México's Master of Horror Carlos Enrique Taboada |
Veneno
para las hadas (Poison for the Fairies)
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada, production: 1984 or
1986
Cast: Ana Patricia Rojo, Elsa Maria Gutiérrez
DVD in spanish audio with english subs, region 1
US Desert Mountain Media DVD edition |
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Ghost story at an all-girls boarding school.
7 girls are grounded at school over vacation
when the ghost of a hanged girl start to
terrorize them. From the Mexican master of
suspense, Carlos Enrique Taboada |
Hasta
el viento tiene miedo (Even the Wind is Afraid)
Direction, script: Carlos Enrique Taboada, prod: México
1968
Cast: Alicia Bonet, Norma Lazareno, Marga Lopez
Blu-ray in spanish audio with english subtitles, region all
US VCI Entertainment 2020 bluray or BD-R edition |
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Drama based on a novel by B. Traven about a
peasant rising in Chiapas 1910. Paisanos in debt to
rich landowners has to work in a Mahogany logging
camp where they are treated as slaves. Finally they
are driven to revolt. Cinematography by the great
Gabriel Figeroua and 4K restored |
La
rebelión de los colgados (Rebellion of the Hanged)
Direction: Alfredo B. Crevenna, production: México
1954
Cast: Pedro Armendáriz, Ariadna, Carlos López
Moctezuma
Blu-ray in spanish audio with english subtitles, b&w, region all
US VCI Entertainment 2021 bluray edition |
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Four Méxican horror classics in a limited box edition:
Misterios de ultratumba 1959, El espejo de la bruja
1962, El barón del terror 1962, La maldicíon de la
Llorona 1963. Numbered copy 4 624 of 6 000.
From Powerhouse Films & the Alameda film vault |
Mexico
Macabre 1959-1963 4 disc Box
Direction: Chano Urueta, Rafael Baledón, Fernando
Méndez
Cast: i.a. Rafael Betrand; Isabela Corona; Rosita Arenas
Blu-ray box in spanish audio with english subtitles, b&w, region all
UK Indicator limited edition 4 disc numbered copy bluray edition
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Atmospherical horror masterpiece
about a
doctor returning from the dead to tell about
life after death. Visually beautiful and strangely
poetic but macabre melodrama and sci-fi zombie
horror. It felt like a Méxican Edgar G. Ulmer movie
and that's a good thing |
Misterios
de Ultratumba (The Black Pit of Dr.M)
Direction: Fernando Méndez, production: México 1959
Cast: Rafael Bertrand, Mapita Cortéz, Carlos Ancira,
Antonio Raxel
Blu-ray in spanish or english audio w english subtitles, b&w, region
all
UK Indicator 4 disc limited 2023 box collection bluray edition |
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Yet another visually atmospheric méxican
horror with Black Magic and a crazy surgeon
and with the fine Rosita Arenas.
Wild and entertaining mix of black magic and
crazy doctor genres co-scripted by Carlos E.
Taboada, future master thriller horror director
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El
Espejo de la bruja (The Witch's Mirror)
Direction: Chano Urueta, production: México 1962
Cast: Rosita Arenas, Armando Calvo, Isabel Corona
Blu-ray in spanish or english audio w english subtitles, b&w, region
all
UK Indicator 4 disc limited 2023 box collection bluray edition
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Absolutely bonkers mexican Cult Trash
horror comedy about a Baron re-animated
as a brain eating human fly-like monster with a
forked rubber tongue and a bulging head
Great psychotronic fun now on Blu-ray |
El
Barón del terror (The Brainiac)
Direction: Chano Urueta, production: México1962
Cast: Abel Salazar, Ruben Rojo, Rosa Maria Gallardo
Blu-ray in spanish or english audio w english subtitles, b&w, region
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UK Indicator 4 disc limited 2023 box collection bluray edition |
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Very atmospheric horror based on the old
mexican legend about the scary La Llorona, the
Crying Woman. Rita Macedo is great as Selma
the black magic witch aunt of Rosita Arenas. A
horror classic with pretty good effects and with
Carlos L. Moctezuma as the psychotic servant |
La
Maldición de la Llorona (Curse of the
Crying Woman)
Direction: Rafael Baledon, production: México 1963
Cast: Rita Macedo, Rosita Arenas, Abel Salazar, Carlos
L. Moctezuma
Blu-ray in spanish or english audio w english subtitles, b&w, region
all
UK Indicator 4 disc limited 2023 box collection bluray edition |
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Amazing trio of lowbudget quickie Mummy
horrors shot in just 2 months. Atmospherical
and funny with an unique mexican slant to it.
Popoca the warrior mummy coming alive, an
Aztek treasure and re-incarnation hypnosis
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The
Aztec Mummy Collection
Direction: Rafael Portillo, production: 1957-1958
Cast: Rosita Arenas, Ramon Gay, Luis Aceves Castañeda
Blu-ray in english audio with english subtitles, b&w, region all
US VCI 2021 bluray edition / US BCI Deimos 3 disc DVD edition |
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Great artmovie drama from the idiosyncratic genius
of Arturo Ripstein about the tensions and machismo
violence the transvestite Manuela raises in a small
country town. Great acting from Cobo, Vega, Soler
The film won a bunch of Méxican Ariel Awards incl.
Best director, Best picture, Best screenplay and Best
actor and Best supporting actor 1978
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El
lugar sin limites (The Place Without Limits)
Direction and co-script: Arturo Ripstein, production:
México 1978
Cast: Roberto Cobo, Ana Martin, Gonzalo Vega, Fernando
Soler
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Mirada Strand Releasing DVD edition |
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One of Buñuel's best films and from his interesting
Méxican period. Ernesto Alonso is great in this
delightful black
crime-comedy melodrama as the
seriously fucked up Archibaldo de la Cruz. Hopefully
there will be a 4K release with english subs coming
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Ensayo
de un Crimen (The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz)
Direction and co-script: Luis Buñuel, production:
México 1955
Cast: Ernesto Alonso, Rita Macedo, Miroslava Stern, Ariadna
Welter
DVD in spanish audio without english subts, black & white, region
all
Spanish Cine DVD edition |
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One of the best films ever made,
maybe the greatest.
Indignant but unsentimental Buñuel ascertains
that poverty and slums makes brutal humans. It's a
disturbing and dark drama but also with some of
the Buñuel poetry and surrealism in the famous
dream sequence and in the powerful ending scene
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Los
Olvidados (The Young and the Damned/Gatans desperados)
+ 1933 Documentary Las Hurdes (Tierra sin
pan)
Direction, co-script and production: Luis Buñuel
México 1950
Cast: Roberto Cobo, Alfonso Meija, Estela Inda, Miguel Inclan
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, black and white, region all
French FSF DVD edition |
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Legendary sleazy and gory horror became a Cult
movie when shown in the US with it's scenes of
open heart surgery and nudity. This release has
the gore and nudity inserted from other sources.
Coupled with Cardona's 1963 Doctor of Doom, the
first of his wrestling women / Luchadoras movies
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Night
of the Bloody Apes (La horripilante bestia humana) +
Doctor of Doom (black&white,
Las Luchadoras vs. Médico Asesino)
Director, co-script: René Cardona, production:
México 1962/1969
Cast: José Elías Moreno, Armando Silvestro
/ Lorena Vélazquez
Blu-ray in english audio dub and english subtitles, region all
US VCI 2 disc bluray and DVD 2021 edition |
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Newly wed Manuel lives with his wife Altair in their
country house and he films her when she's slowly
slipping into madness. An original take on the found
footage genre by Méxican director Dryere and with a
great atmospherical soundtrack by Enrico Chapela |
1974:
La Posesión de Altair
Direction, script, co-edit: Victor Dryere, procuction:
México 2016
Cast: Diana Bovio, Rolando Breme, Gillermo Callahan
Blu-ray in spanish audio with english subtitles, region all
US Cauldron 2021 bluray and extra soundtrack CD edition |
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Great Crime Melodrama by El Maestro, the
greatest film director of all time, and from his
superior Mexican period. It's a shame that his
best Mexican films can't be found in a restored
Blu-ray release (with english subtitles please).
El Bruto is a very fine regular crime melodrama
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El
Bruto (The Brute)
Direction and co-script: Luis Buñuel, production:
México 1952
Cast: Pedro Almendáríz, Katy Jurado, Rosita
Arenas
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, b&w, region 1
US Cinemateca DVD edition |
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Two great trashy fun Méxican action adventures.
Maura Monti as The Batwoman in a bikini dress
solving The Cases of the Dead Wrestlers.
Plus Elizabeth Campbell in her last film as the
Luchadora Golden Rubi fighting the evil Panther
Women. Prime Méxican 1960's B movie Fun |
The
Batwoman (Mujer Murcielago)
+ The Panther Women
Direction: René Cardona Sr., production: Mexico
1967
Cast: Maura Monti, Roberto Canedo / Elizabeth Campbell
DVD in english audio with english subtitles, region all
US VCI Entertainment DVD edition |
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Absurd and surrealistic drama-comedy where the
Méxican bourgeoisie are in trouble as they just
can't leave a living-room no matter how they try.
Is it a social commentary with Buñuel making fun of
the upper classes thin layer of civilized behaviour
or just Luis Buñuel having surreal fun ? |
El
ángel exterminador (The Exterminating Angel / Mordängeln)
Direction and script: Luis Buñuel, production:
México 1962
Cast: Silvia Pinal, Augusto Benedico, Antonio Bravo, Claudio
Brook
Blu-ray in spanish audio with english subtitles, black&white, region
A
US Criterion Collection bluray edition |
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A short long film and a funny Masterpiece
where Buñuel scourges us, making fun of
us humans with our religious tomfooleries and
with a stylite at the center of it. Black humour,
religion and Sex in the shape of Satan's
Super HOT Silvia Pinal. |
Simón
del desierto (Simon of the Desert/Simon Pelarhelgonet)
Direction & script: Luis Buñuel, production:
Mexico 1965
Cast: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Antonio Bravo
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, b&w, region 1
US Criterion Collection DVD edition with booklet |
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Great Fun ! Mexican film classic in a crime
drama and black comedy where mild-mannered.
Dr Morales finally gets enough of his nagging
wife. With vibes of Luis Buñuel and Hitchcock
and Córdova acted in Èl, the great 1953 Buñuel |
The
Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (El Esqueleto de la señora
Morales)
Direction: Rogelio A. González, production: Mexico
1960
Cast: Arturo de Córdova, Ampuro Rivelles, Antonio
Bravo
Blu-ray in spanish audio with english subtitles, region all
US VCI Entertainment 2020 bluray or BD-R edition, black & white
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Another one of Buñuel's cinematic masterpieces
where El Maestro deals with Sex, religion and
with clashes between social classes, and with
lots of black humour of course. The lovely Silvia
Pinal in the main role as the pious Viridiana. Won
the Golden Palm in Cannes |
Viridiana
Direction and co-script: Luis Buñuel, production:
Spain-México 1961
Cast: Silvia Pinal, Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal, Margarita
Lozano
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, black&white, region 1
US Criterion Collection DVD edition |
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Fine melodrama thriller about obsession, when a
middle-aged man with a shoe fetish marries a
younger woman and he goes mad with jealousy
and paranoia turning into a dangerous lunatic.
One of Buñuel's best Méxican films but strangely
obscure and hard to get with english subtitles |
El
(This Strange Passion)
Direction and co-script: Luis Buñuel, production:
México 1952
Cast: Arturo de Cordova, Delia Garces, Luis Beristain
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, black&white, region all
Alternative market DVD |
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An Absolute Psychotronic
Masterpiece !
Piporro and Lorena Velázquez in an insanely
great and funny Sci Fi-horror-musical-comedy
where 2 HOT Venus women lands on earth
with a bunch of monsters in search of male
breeding specimen. Lucky guy Piporro, and
he sings the beautiful La estrella del deseo
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La
Nave de los monstruos (Ship of Monsters) / Alias
"El Rata"
Direction: Rogelio A. González, production: Jesús
Sotomayor 1960/1966
Cast: Piporro, Lorena Velazquez,
Alma Delia Fuentes, Regina Torne
DVD in spanish audio without english subtitles, b&w, region 1
US Lion's Gate - Televisa Home Entertainment DVD edition |
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Magic art movie horror saga from the
unique mind of iconoclast director and
writer Jodorowsky about a destructive
sort of mother & son relationship.
Blanca Guerra is beyond fantastic, so
powerful and i love her. Lots of extras
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Santa
Sangre
Direction: Alejandro Jodorowsky, production. Mexico/Italy
1989
Cast: Blanca Guerra,
Axel Cristobal Jodorowsky, Adan Jodorowsky
DVD in english audio, region all
US Severin 2 disc unrated DVD edition |
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Yes, the almost mythical long lost european sexy
version of Santo and Dracula's Treasure with the
Count's vampiresses in his crypt being topless.
El Santo builds a Time Machine and sends busty
Noelia Noel back to the 19th century. Great Trash! |
El
Vampiro y el Sexo / Santo et le Tresor de Dracula
Direction: René Cardona, production: Mexico-France
1969
Cast: El Santo, Aldo Monti, Noelia Noel, Carlos Agosti
DVD in french & spanish audio without english subs, region all
French Bach Films DVD edition |
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Seven somewhat trashy but very entertaining
1980's Mexican Slasher horror films by e.g.
Ruben Galindo Jr. and with delightfully
unhinged plots and with lots of fun Gore
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Crypt
of Terror Vol. 1 (4 disc collection)
Direction: Ruben Galindo Jr. mfl, production: 1985-1991
Cast: Pedro Fernandez, Gabriela Hassel et al
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, region 1
US BCI EClipse 4 disc DVD edition |
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Mexico's most beloved superhero the Lucha Libre
icon El Santo in one of a series of films where he
fighted gangsters, mad doctors, monsters and
aliens. In this entertaining Sci-Fi action he battles
bad Martians. El Santo movies are camp cult today |
Santo
vs. La Invasion de los marcianos (Santo vs. The Marsians)
Direction: Alfredo B. Crevenna, production: 1966
Cast: El Santo, Wolf Ruvinskis, Maura Monti
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, b&w, region all
US Kit Parker Films DVD edition |
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Cantinflas - maybe the greatest film comedian
ever emanating from Latin America. Here in a
comedy as the fast-talking janitor with a great
heart. As his love interest we get to see the 19
year old Buñuel legend to be, Silva Pinal in one
of her very first movies
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El
Portero (Portvakten)
Direction: Miguel M. Delgado, production: 1950
Cast: Cantinflas, Silvia Pinal
DVD in spanish audio without english subtitles, b&w, region all
US Eastwest DVD edition |
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Strong and sensual drama
from the interesting
Rotberg about the young and happily amoral
Alma and her meeting with religious bigotry.
Evangelina Sosa is very memorable and good
in the main role. Great stuff ! |
Angel
de fuego (Angel of Fire)
Direction: Dana Rotberg, production: 1992
Cast: Evangelina Sosa, Lilia Aragón, Roberto Sosa
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Desert Mountain Media DVD edition |
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Méxican artmovie horror drama about a mentally
ill hobo who, with the help of two siblings, constructs
a papier-maché vision of Hell (like something from a
Coffin Joe movie. Copious of arty non-erotic sex,
genitals, blowjob, urination and whatever. Surrealistic |
We
Are The Flesh (Tenemo la carne)
Direction, script: Emiliano Rocha Minter, prod: Mexico
2016
Cast: Noé Hernández, Maria Evoli, Diego
Gamalie
Blu-ray in spanish audio with english subtitles, region B
UK Arrow Video 2017 bluray edition |
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A Brilliant and very funny black comedy and
political satire with a hilarious Alcázar.
Also included is a crime-comedy with fine
Cecilia Suarez about a lot of robberies.
Estrada made some sort of a sequel in the 2014
Hit La dictatura perfecta, also with Alcázar |
La
Ley de Herodes (Herode's Law)/Todo
el poder
Direction and script: Luis Estrada/Fernando
Sariñana, production: 1999
Cast: Damián Alcázar, Delia Casanova/Cecilia
Suarez, Demián Bichir
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Warner Brothers DVD edition |
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A Méxican horror anthology with 8 short
stories from young and promising genre
directors, as Jorge Michel Grau and Gigi Saúl
Guerrero. Some not so good, some better and
some good, a mixed bag but pretty enjoyable
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México
Bárbaro
Direction: Various directors, production: 2014
Cast: Patricia Ortiz, Sara Camacho, Harold Torres i.a.
DVD in spanish with swedish subtitles, region 2
Swedish Njuta Films DVD edition |
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Female Revenge Crime Heist where revengeful
Spanish robber chicks stands up to some
nasty Mexican killers. Diego Luna and
Ariadna Gil are good and acts with some
sort of quiet intensity
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Just
Walking (Solo quiero caminar)
Direction and script: Agustín Díaz Yanes,
prod. Spain/Mexico 2008
Cast: Diego Luna, Ariadna Gil, Victoria Abril, Jose María
Yazpik
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, region 3
Thai United Home Entertainment DVD edition |
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Smart and slick crime action where 4 bank
robbers is about to wash their their loot from
a bankjob down in Argentine, manages to
escape to Buenos Aires with the money but
gets out of the frying pan and into the fire
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Sultanes
del Sur (Sultans of the South)
Direction: Alejandro Lozano, production: 2007
Cast: Ana de La Guerra, Tony Dalton, Jordi Molla
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, region 3
Thai J-Bics DVD edition |
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A colorful tell-tale and a kind-hearted
drama about hope when we get to follow
the beautiful Esperanza in her quest to
find her dead daughter. More humorous
than one could think
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Santitos
Direction: Alejandro Springall, production: 1998
Cast: Dolores Heredia, Roberto Cobo
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, region 1
US 20th Century Fox DVD edition |
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A beautiful, if a bit pretentious, fairytale
drama about a family curse. Awarded with
seven mexican Oscars. Plus a steamy drama,
what else, about the sensual Otilia Rauda
from Dana Rotberg.
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Cuentos
de hadas para dormir cocodrilos (Bedtime
Stories for
Crocodiles) La Mujer del pueblo (Otilia
Rauda)
Direction: Ignacio Ortiz Cruz/Dana Rotberg,
production: 2001
Cast: Rodolfo Guerrero,Ana Graham/Gabriela Canudas, A. Estrella
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Warner Brothers DVD edition |
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El
Maestro |
Arturo
Ripstein |
México's
Luis Buñuel |
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Arturo
Ripstein is my favourite Mexican
film director and with Sex, Black Humour
and Machismo he cleverly provoke and
play with us like a Luis Buñuel about
conventions, religion, hypocrisy, death
and sexuality |
Ripstein
(born 1943) worked with Buñuel as an assistant director when the
spaniard
made one of his Mexican film masterpieces, El Angel
exterminador in 1962, and
Buñuel became his friend and mentor.
Ripstein directed his first film in 1965 and the Mexican maestro is still
fully active
today, the always provocative, challenging and controversial film veteran.
Often
a festival favourite abroad with films as El Otro and The Virgin of Lust |
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Downbeat crime-drama, visually stylish noir
in b&w about 2 sad and too old prostitutes.
It's so miserable and bleak it could also be a
pitch-black comedy ? I don't know but Arturo
is as fascinating as always. Artmovie alert |
Bleak
Street (La Calle de la Amargura)
Direction: Arturo Ripstein, production. 2015
Cast: Patricia Reyes Spindola, Nora Velásquez,
Sylvia Pasquel
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, black&white, region 1
US Kino Lorber 2017 DVD edition |
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A Monstruos passion. Very
bizarre but
totally fascinating crime drama from the
Méxican master about a swindler and murder
couple on tour. Based on The Lonely Hearts
Murders and one of the Maestro's best films |
Profundo
Carmesi (Deep Crimson)
Direction: Arturo Ripstein,
production: Mexico-Spain-France 1996
Cast: Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Regina Orozco, Marisa Paredes
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Home Vision Entertainment DVD edition |
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Prostitutes, priests, talk and loneliness
in a peculiar artmovie that's told in a couple
of Tableaux from the different main roles
perspective. Very nice cinematography but
maybe not one of the greatest films from
El Maestro |
El
Carnaval de sodoma (Una Casa para infieles)
Direction: Arturo Ripstein, production: 2006
Cast: María Barranco, Carlos Cobos, Alejandro Camacho
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Distrimax Inc. DVD edition |
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Fascinating, visually exciting
and unique
drama from the Luis Buñuel of México.
Hypnotic artmovie about the odd Nacho
and his obsession with an Opium princess
in the wartime México.
With a super great soundtrack
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La
Virgen de la lujuria (The Virgin of Lust)
Direction: Arturo Ripstein, production: 2000
Cast: Luis Felipe Tovar, Ariadna Gil, Juan Diego
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Lion's Gate DVD edition |
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Idiosyncratic drama tell-tale from the artmovie
master of Méxican film. About a man, his
fighting rooster and about the beautiful
singer Bernarda, played by my darling
favourite Blanca Guerra
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El
Imperio de la fortuna (The Realm of Fortune)
Direction: Arturo Ripstein, production: 1985
Cast: Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Blanca Guerra
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Desert Mountain Media DVD edition |
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Tragicomical drama about an ex-convict and
the videspread corruption plaguing society.
But with a lot of Ripstein's SBM
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Sex, Black humour and Machismo.
From Mexiko's Buñuel, tha master Ripstein
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Cadena
perpetua (Life Sentence)
Direction: Arturo Ripstein, production: 1979
Cast: Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., Ernesto Gómez
Cruz
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Desert Mountain Media DVD edition
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Legendary sleazy Méxican gory horror that
became a Cult movie when shown in the US
version with nudity and the scenes of open
heart surgery. Plus an excellent Black Magic
horror about killer voodoo dolls murdering
some Haiti tourists |
Night
of the Bloody Apes ( La Horripilante bestia
humana)
Muñecos Infernales (The Curse of the Doll People)
Direction: René Cardona / Benito Alazraki,
prod: Mexico 1968/1960
Cast: Norma Lazareno, José Moreno/Elvira Quintana, Quintín
Bulnes
DVD in spanish or english audio with english subs, region all
US BCI Deimos 2 disc DVD edition - mexican 60's horror rules! |
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Funny crime thriller drama and Giallo with lots
of black humour and Fetischism á la Luis
Buñuel, when irritated male machismo
clashes with women in an apartment building.
Great stuff but sadly a very obscure film |
Terror
y encajes negros (Terror and Black Silk)
Direction: Luis Alcoriza, production: 1985
Cast: Maribel Guardia, Gonzalo Vega, Claudio Obregón
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Desert Mountain media DVD edition |
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Racy or Raunchy ? Colorful and Sexy about
the 1950's Nightclub Tivoli and it's struggle
for survival. Entertaining and snazzy drama
comedy from the Magic Mexiko
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Tivoli
Direction: Alberto Isaac, produktion: 1974
Cast: Alfonso Arau, Lyn May, Pancho Cordova
DVD med spanskt tal och engelsk text, region 1
US Desert Mountain Media DVD edition |
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Atmospherical horror masterpiece
about a
doctor returning from the dead to tell about
life after death. Visually beautiful and poetic
macabre melodrama sci-fi zombie horror |
Misterios
de Ultratumba (The Black Pit of Dr.M)
Direction: Fernando Méndez, production: México 1958
Cast: Rafael Bertrand, Mapita Cortéz, Carlos Ancira,
Antonio Raxel
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, black & white, region
1
US Panik House Casa Negra DVD edition |
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La
India María - María Elena Velasco
(1940-2015 R.I.P.) |
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Méxican Velasco became a beloved film icon in
her country and in Central America
as Loca María,
the nutty indian woman in a long series of popular comedies.
Dressed nicely in a traditional indian way, with an unstoppable optimism,
a warm
heart, tons of charm and a BIG smile, she handles every problem she
encounter
during her many adventures. With some gravity also of how poor people
and the
indigenous indians are treated, a sickness brought in by the European
racists.
The India María movies mix slapstick, adventure, playing with
words and genre
parody. Read more about this film series follow the picture link at
left
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4 Disc collection with La India María:
Tonta tonta pero no tanto, La Presidenta
municipal, El Miedo no anda en burro and
OK Mr. Pancho. Follow the picture link
for more info about these great films |
La
India María (Edicion especial 4 disc edition)
Direction: Fernando Cortez/Gilberto M. Solares, production:
1972-1981
Cast: María Elena Velasco, Wally Barron m fl
DVD in spanish audio without english subtitles, region ?
Us Laguna Films 4 disc DVD edition |
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Science fiction and a horror comedy from the
producer genius of Jesús Sotomayor,
the man who gave us the ultimate Mexican
psychotronic masterpiece "La Nave de los
Monstruos". Comedian Clavillazo in both
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Conquistador
de la Luna (Conqueror of the Moon)/
El Castillo de los Monstruos (The Castle of the Monsters)
Direction: Rogelio A. González/Julián Soler,
production: 1960/1958
Cast: Antonio Espino Clavillazo, Ana Luisa Peluffo/Evangelina Elizondo
DVD in spanish audio without english subtitles, b&w, region 1
US Lion's Gate - Televisa Home Entertainment DVD edition |
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Very atmospheric horror based on the old
Mexican legend about the scary La Llorona
- The Crying Woman. Casa Negra presents
it in a fine restored version and with extras
including booklet and an audio commentary |
La
Maldición de la Llorona (Curse of the
Crying Woman)
Direction: Rafael Baledon, production: 1961
Cast: Rosita Arenas, Abel Salazar, Beatriz Bustamente
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, b&w, region 1
US Panik House Casa Negra DVD edition
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Wild, atmospheric and super great méxican
Nunsploitation or perhaps Mexploitation
where a Nun worships, yes, who else than
Mr. Satan ? And she brings chaos to the
Convent. Inspiration to Alucarda maybe? |
Satanico
pandemonium (La Sexorcista/La Novizia indemoniata)
Direction: Gilberto Martinez Solares, production:
1973
Cast: Cecilia Pezet, Enrique Rocha, Delia Magana
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, region all
US Mondo Macabro DVD edition |
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Yet another visually atmospheric méxican
horror with Black Magic and a crazy surgeon
and with the fine Rosita Arenas.
Fine restoration by Casa Negra and an audio
commentary in the extras |
El
Espejo de la bruja (The Witch's Mirror)
Direction: Chano Urueta, production: 1960
Cast: Rosita Arenas, Armando Calvo, Isabel Corona
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, b&w, region 1
US Panik House Casa Negra DVD edition |
Ninón
Sevilla |
The
Cuban Rumbera |
The
Whirlwind that became a legend of Méxican 1940-50's Golden Era
film |
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Born 1921 in Havana she made big success
as a latino-dancer and filmdebuted in 1946.
Ninón became an icon in the for México
unique musical melodrama Cabareteras genre
with films often directed by Alberto Gout
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The legend arised from her roles as The Good Girl Gone Bad, often as a
prostitute, in a row of musical-melodramas stylishly made in Noir-style
where
she sooner or later turns up at a nightclub. Where she performs in snazzily
choreographed dance numbers in rumba, salsa, mambo-style and with glimpses
of the afro-caribbean Santería religion. Ninón Sevilla,
a beautiful and very
charismatic actress from the golden Era days of Méxican film
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A Superior Mexican romantic drama and
an absolute film classic with the sensual
Ninón Sevilla as the unlucky Elena.
Great stuff from Golden era of Méxican film
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Aventurera
(The Adventuress)
Direction: Alberto Gout, production: 1949
Cast: Ninón Sevilla, Tito Junco
DVD in spanish audio without english subtitles, b&w, region all
US
Laguna Films DVD edition |
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Two snappy musical melodramas by
Alberto Gout and Julio Bracho, and with
our favourite Rumbera as a fallen woman
and a Nightclub star performer
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Ninón
Sevilla 3 Peliculas - Aventura en Rio/Revancha/
Llévame en tus brazos (2 disc)
Direction: Alberto Gout/Julio Bracho,
production: 1948-1954
Cast: Ninón Sevilla, Victor Junco/Agustin Lara/Andrea Palma
DVD in spanish audio without english subtitles, b&w, region 1
US BCI 2 disc DVD edition |
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Historical revenge melodrama shot in Cuba
and with scenes of real practice of Santeria
with Sevilla as a practician (and it's said she
was also in her real life). Interesting stuff.
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Yambaó
(Cry of the Bewitched/Priestess of Violece/Young
and Evil) +
The Mermaids of Tiburon (Psychotronica Vol.3)
Direction: Alfredo B. Crevenna, production: 1956
Cast: Ninón Sevilla, Ramon Gay, Rosa Elena Durgel
DVD in english audio, region all
US Kit Parker Films - Psychotronica DVD edition |
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Entertaining and well made Girl Gone
Bad
musical melodrama from the Golden era
days of Méxican film, and with lovely Cuban
Rumbera Ninón Sevilla
as a nightclub
dancer in love with a bullfighter
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Perdida
Direction: Fernando A. Rivero, production: 1949
Cast: Ninón Sevilla, Agustin Lara, Antonio Velásquez
DVD in spanish audio without english subtitles, b&w, region ?
US Laguna Films DVD edition |
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Atmospheric and visually exciting vampire
tale "El Vampiro" from the accomplished
mexican genre director Fernando Mendez
i.a. the fantastic "Misterios de Ultratumba"
plus the sequel "El Ataud del Vampiro"
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El
Vampiro / El Ataúd del vampiro (2 disc
edition)
Direction: Fernando Mendez, production:
1957
Cast: Germán Robles, Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, b&w, region 1
US Panik House Casa Negra unrated 2 disc DVD edition |
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Absolutely bonkers mexican Cult Trash
horror comedy about a Baron re-animated
as a brain eating monster. Great psychotronic
fun in yet another brilliant Panik House Casa
Negra dvd with i.a. an audio commentary
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El
Barón del terror (The Brainiac)
Direction: Chano Urueta, production: 1961
Cast: Abel Salazar, Ruben Rojo, Rosa Maria Gallardo
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, b&w, region 1
US Panik House Casa Negra DVD edition |
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Entertaining, wild and trashy Demon splatter
horror gore late from the unhinged 1980's
about some young Grave Robbers unwisely
wakening a mummy, and a trashy ripoff of
Sam Raimi's Evil Dead |
Ladrones
de tumbas (Grave Robbers)/Cementerio del
terror
Direction: Ruben Galindo Jr., production:
1989/1985
Cast: James Houghton, Albert Salmi, Lynn Carlin, Hedi Bohay
DVD in spanish audio with english subtitles, region ?
US BCI Deimos DVD edition |
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Colourful iconoclastic Cult horror and a prime
piece of Mexican Nunsploitation where 2 nuns
start to worship Satan in a convent.
Great and slightly arty Mexploitation
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Alucarda
(Alucarda, la hija de la tinieblas/ The Daughter
of Darkness/Sisters
of Satan/ Mark of the Devil 3)
Direction: Juan Lopez Moctezuma, production:
1975
Cast: Tina Romero, Susana Kamini, Claudio Brook
DVD in english audio, region free
US Mondo Macabro DVD edition |
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