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The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.Read More »
Claudio Brook
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Arturo Ripstein – El castillo de la pureza aka The Castle of Purity (1973) (HD)
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Guillermo del Toro – Cronos [+ Commentaries] (1993)
1991-2000DramaGuillermo del ToroHorrorMexicoQuote:
A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.Read More » -
Juan López Moctezuma – The Mansion of Madness (1973)
1971-1980CultHorrorJuan López MoctezumaMexicoA mysterious man is sent deep into the forest to investigate the bizarre behavior of the notorious Dr. Tarr. What he stumbles upon is the doctor’s torture dungeon, a hellish asylum completely cut off from civilization and presided over by the ultimate madman. Innocent people have been savagely chained, tortured and stuck in glass cages, then forced to take part in gruesome games of ritual slaughter.Read More »
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Juan López Moctezuma – Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas AKA Alucarda (1977)
1971-1980CultHorrorJuan López MoctezumaMexicoWhen the teenage orphan Justine arrives in a convent, she befriends Alucarda, who was raised since she was a baby by the nuns. They become best friends and stay together most of the time. When they meet a gypsy on the forest, he is indeed Satan and possesses the teenagers. Soon the convent is turned upside-down affecting the lives of Alucarda, Justine, the nuns and Father Lázaro. The skeptic Dr. Oszek will also witness a showdown between good and evil affecting his beliefs.Read More »
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Luis Buñuel – Simón del desierto AKA Simon of the Desert [+Extra] (1965)
1961-1970DramaLuis BuñuelMexicoSimon of the Desert is Luis Buñuel’s wicked and wild take on the life of devoted ascetic Saint Simeon Stylites, who waited atop a pillar surrounded by a barren landscape for six years, six months, and six days, in order to prove his devotion to God. Yet the devil, in the figure of the beautiful Silvia Pinal, huddles below, trying to tempt him down. A skeptic’s vision of human conviction, Buñuel’s short and sweet satire is one of the master filmmaker’s most renowned works of surrealism.Read More »