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El museo del horror with El barón del terror
Sun, Oct 16 | 3:30pm | TMT
El museo del horror (The Museum of Horror)
In early 20th century Mexico, a disfigured man abducts women in order to drench their faces with scalding wax. Police remain clueless. Meanwhile a romantic triangle simmers be- tween Marta, a young nurse; Raul, a peculiar doctor; and Luis, a former actor with a physical disability. This demented, expressionistic yarn follows wax museum horror tropes while mixing heated romance with grave robbers, oneiric episodes of the dead rising, heads in formaldehyde, grotesque decomposed faces, and a couple of musical interludes.
DIRECTOR: Rafael Baledón.
WRITTEN BY: José María Fernández Unsáin.
CAST: Julio Alemán, Patricia Conde, Joaquín Cordero, Olivia Michel.
1964. 85 min. Mexico. B&W. Spanish. DCP.
Courtesy of Televisa Foundation - Univision Foundation.
El barón del terror (The Brainiac)
As Baron Vitelius burns, accused of multiple crimes by the Spanish Inquisition, he curses the bloodlines of his executioners. Some 300 years later, he comes back to sow the seeds of his revenge under a new form: a hairy human- oid brain-eating being with giant crab-like claws and a long, forked tongue. Prepare yourself to meet the most bizarre creature spawned by Mexican cinema who has crossed borders, time, and the limits of the absurd.
DIRECTOR: Chano Urueta.
WRITTEN BY: Federico Curiel, Adolfo López Portillo.
CAST: Abel Salazar, Rubén Rojo, Rosa María Gallardo, Ariadne Welter.
1961. 77 min. Mexico. B&W. Spanish. DCP.
Courtesy of Alameda Films.
MEXICAN HORROR
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