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La nave de los monstruos with La cabeza viviente
Sun, Oct 9 | 2pm | TMT
La nave de los monstruos (The Ship of Monsters)
A Venusian spacecraft led by female cosmo- nauts with a cargo of male specimens from across the universe crash lands in rural Mexico. So begins an extravagant, genre-bending tale where sci-fi, western, musical, and horror tropes mutate into a zany experience that only Mexican cinema could concoct. As a robot servant repairs the ship, the cosmonauts deal with the ever-growing attention of a singing cowboy and the violent urges of their extraterrestrial prisoners.
DIRECTOR: Rogelio A. González.
WRITTEN BY: José María Fernández Unsáin & Alfredo Varela Jr. CAST: Ana Bertha Lepe, Lorena Velázquez, Lalo González Piporro, Consuelo Frank.
1960. 82 min. Mexico. B&W. Spanish. DCP.
Print courtesy of Fundacion Televisa-Fundacion Univisión. Special thanks to Evrim Ersoy and Luke Mullen of Fantastic Fest 2019 for the DCP.
La cabeza viviente (The Living Head)
A group of archeologists uncover the tomb of Acatl, a decapitated Aztec General; the maid- en Xochiquétzal; and Xiu, the priest enforcer of ancient gods. A rampage of death, marked by the blade of an obsidian knife, is unleashed toward all of those who desecrated the grave. This historically inaccurate film delivers the Aztec mummy mythos on steroids along with human heart offerings and pre-Hispanic cer- emonial stock footage from a 1960 film about the Virgin of Guadalupe.
DIRECTOR: Chano Urueta.
WRITTEN BY: Federico Curiel, Adolfo López Portillo. CAST: Mauricio Garcés, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Abel Salazar, Germán Robles.
1963. 79 min. Mexico. B&W. Spanish. DCP.
Courtesy of TV Azteca.
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