Cien gritos de terror

'100 Cries of Terror' (1965) aka 'Cien Gritos de terror' remains an unduly obscure, enjoyably twisted Mexican Gothic terror two-fer from Costa Rican-born writer/director, Ramón Obón. For the sake of transparency, I have to profess to having a yielding soft spot for vintage, creepy-creaky Mexican horror; as, for me, even the hokiest, profoundly penurious schlock-fest from south of the border is frequently imbued with an amiable eccentricity that greatly increases the psychotronic elements, and Obón's thrillingly strange, morbidly magnificent, shriek-slathered '100 Cries of Terror' is unlikely to disappoint fans of scintillatingly skewed 60s shudder! This atmospheric, creep-laden compendium comprises two grave, coffin cool, bone-rattlingly bonkers supernatural doom-fests, with the latter tale clearly being spookily inspired by Poe's classic 'Premature Burial'. Both of these eerily exquisite, perfectly pulpy horror tales still retain much of their macabre majesty, but the ominous 'Cripta De Terror' is a manifestly unusual, eerily effective, fabulously fright-festooned foray into sinister, ice-veined sepulchral shock! Ramón Obón's Cien Gritos de terror' (1965) comes very highly recommended indeed!