Mexican Horror
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1. Alucarda (1977)
R | 78 min | Horror
After 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?
Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Claudio Brook, David Silva, Tina Romero, Susana Kamini
Votes: 4,093
2. Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon (1973)
R | 82 min | Horror
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, then put into action their own ideas of how the place should be run.
Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Claudio Brook, Arthur Hansel, Ellen Sherman, Martin LaSalle
Votes: 1,304
3. Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975)
R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An American artist with a penchant for drinking blood begins seducing and dispatching residents of a small fishing town in Mexico.
Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Cristina Ferrare, David Young, John Carradine, Helena Rojo
Votes: 776
4. The Mystery of the Ghastly Face (1935)
88 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A disturbed doctor is obsessed with finding the cure for a strange disease and experimenting with his patients, who are slowly dying of their medical failures. Desperate, he embarks with ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Carlos Villarías, Beatriz Ramos, Natalia Ortiz, Manuel Noriega
Votes: 61
5. El hombre sin rostro (1950)
91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Carmen Molina, Miguel Ángel Ferriz, Queta Lavat
Votes: 198
6. El Monstruo Resucitado (1953)
TV-14 | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The first major medical sci/fi movie in Mexico, loosely based on the Frankenstein story but injecting gory surgical motifs into it, laying the foundations of the genres that came to ... See full summary »
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Miroslava, Carlos Navarro, José María Linares-Rivas, Fernando Wagner
Votes: 144
7. La bruja (1954)
90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Thieves 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Lilia del Valle, Ramón Gay, Julio Villarreal, Charles Rooner
Votes: 128
8. The Body Snatcher (1957)
80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A wrestler and a detective team up to stop a mad scientist who is kidnapping athletes and replacing their brains with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer.
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Columba Domínguez, Crox Alvarado, Wolf Ruvinskis, Carlos Riquelme
Votes: 218
9. El vampiro (1957)
95 min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter, Carmen Montejo, José Luis Jiménez
Votes: 1,013
10. El fantasma del convento (1934)
85 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
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... See full summary »
Director: Fernando de Fuentes | Stars: Marta Roel, Enrique del Campo, Carlos Villatoro, Paco Martínez
Votes: 442
11. Two Monks (1934)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When the Monk Javier acts violently in a gothic monastery, the Prior asks the Monk Juan to calm him down since he believes that Javier is possessed by demons. When Juan comes to Javier's ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Víctor Urruchúa, Carlos Villatoro, Magda Haller, Beltrán de Heredia
Votes: 716
12. The Vampire's Coffin (1958)
80 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Graverobbers stumble upon the tomb of a vampire, who turns them into zombies to do his bidding, which is to stalk and capture beautiful women.
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter, Germán Robles, Yerye Beirute
Votes: 638
13. The Black Pit of Dr. M (1959)
Approved | 71 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Two 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.
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Gastón Santos, Rafael Bertrand, Mapita Cortés, Carlos Ancira
Votes: 739
14. Muñecos infernales (1961)
Approved | 81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Four 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.
Director: Benito Alazraki | Stars: Elvira Quintana, Ramón Gay, Roberto G. Rivera, Quintín Bulnes
Votes: 363
15. El mundo de los vampiros (1961)
83 min | Horror
A vampire uses two sisters to seek revenge from the last member of a family that persecuted the vampires in Europe.
Director: Alfonso Corona Blake | Stars: Guillermo Murray, Silvia Fournier, Mauricio Garcés, Erna Martha Bauman
Votes: 227
16. The Brainiac (1962)
Approved | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter, David Silva, Germán Robles
Votes: 1,311
17. The Witch's Mirror (1960)
Approved | 76 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch's mirror to take her revenge.
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Rosita Arenas, Armando Calvo, Isabela Corona, Dina de Marco
Votes: 960
18. The Curse of the Crying Woman (1963)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After 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.
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Rosita Arenas, Abel Salazar, Rita Macedo, Carlos López Moctezuma
Votes: 784
19. Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968)
TV-14 | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Girls 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.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Marga López, Maricruz Olivier, Alicia Bonet, Norma Lazareno
Votes: 2,023
20. A la sombra del sol (1967)
90 min | Drama
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Miguel Arnaiz, Fernando Larrañaga, Ofelia Montesco, Álvaro Ortiz
21. Vagabundo en la lluvia (1968)
87 min | Drama, Thriller, Horror
Two women from different social spheres but with similar interests decide to spend a weekend in the country. The unexpected arrival or a vagrant turns the peaceful vacation into a nightmare of horror and human passion.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Rodolfo de Anda, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Christa Linder, Norma Lazareno
Votes: 111
22. The Book of Stone (1969)
99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A governess Julia comes to work in a bourgeois family that live in an afforested property that they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of little girl named Silvia, whose unusual ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Marga López, Joaquín Cordero, Norma Lazareno, Aldo Monti
Votes: 1,244
23. El deseo en otoño (1972)
99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
The story concerns a young woman named Elena who ascends from rags to riches when she inherits a substantial fortune; having no one else with whom she can share the monies, she invites her ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Maricruz Olivier, Guillermo Murray, Sonia Furió, Silvia Mariscal
Votes: 51
24. Rapiña (1975)
114 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Two neighbors who had always lived in poverty witness a plane crash and decide to take anything they find valuable among the dead. They begin to experience greed.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Germán Robles, Norma Lazareno, Rosenda Monteros
Votes: 284
25. Quién mató al abuelo? (1972)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A couple are surprised by the police while burying a corpse. The woman's grandchildren confess that her grandfather died a few months before and that their grandmother buried him in the living room to continue collecting the pension.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Amparo Rivelles, Enrique Rambal, Eduardo Alcaraz, Ahui Camacho
Votes: 35
26. Darker Than Night (1975)
102 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Four beautiful women move to an old house, inherited by the aunt of one of them, and witness strange things.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Claudia Islas, Susana Dosamantes, Lucía Méndez, Helena Rojo
Votes: 1,463
27. Poison for the Fairies (1986)
90 min | Fantasy, Horror
A 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.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Ana Patricia Rojo, Elsa María Gutiérrez, Leonor Llausás, Carmen Stein
Votes: 2,564
28. El (1953)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Romance
A husband's suave exterior unravels after his marriage, and he unleashes his paranoid and volatile temper on his wife, which escalates to more dangerous and unpredictable tantrums.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Carlos Martínez Baena
Votes: 6,574
29. Night of 1000 Cats (1972)
R | 63 min | Horror
A wealthy playboy kidnaps and murders young women, feeding their corpses to his horde of felines.
Director: René Cardona Jr. | Stars: Anjanette Comer, Hugo Stiglitz, Zulma Faiad, Christa Linder
Votes: 871
30. La tía Alejandra (1980)
98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she's bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a witch, and takes revenge.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Diana Bracho, Isabela Corona, Manuel Ojeda, María Rebeca
Votes: 451
31. The Bermuda Triangle (1978)
G | 112 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery
The passengers and crew of a ship on a scuba diving trip in the Caribbean stray into the famed Bermuda Triangle, and mysterious and deadly things start happening.
Director: René Cardona Jr. | Stars: John Huston, Andrés García, Hugo Stiglitz, Gloria Guida
Votes: 1,664
32. The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy (1958)
Approved | 65 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries-old living mummy.
Director: Rafael Portillo | Stars: Ramón Gay, Rosita Arenas, Crox Alvarado, Luis Aceves Castañeda
Votes: 2,804
33. Night of the Bloody Apes (1969)
R | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A doctor tries to save his son's life through a complicated heart transplant operation, the involuntary donor being a gorilla. Eventually, the young man turns into a violent hybrid beast.
Director: René Cardona | Stars: José Elías Moreno, Carlos López Moctezuma, Armando Silvestre, Norma Lazareno
Votes: 1,229
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