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- DirectorFernando MéndezStarsAbel SalazarAriadne WelterCarmen MontejoA Mexican girl returns home for an aunt's funeral. She hears town rumors about vampires. She suspects her other aunt and neighbor are involved with vampires.
- DirectorFernando MéndezStarsColumba DomínguezCrox AlvaradoWolf RuvinskisA 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.
- DirectorChano UruetaStarsLilia del ValleRamón GayJulio VillarrealThieves 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 a spectacular beauty, and then uses the woman to take his revenge on those responsible for his daughter's murder.
- DirectorChano UruetaStarsMiroslavaCarlos NavarroJosé María Linares-RivasThe 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 dominate Hispanic Science Fictionin the 60's and 70's, as exempified by the work of Jesus Franco from 'Gritos en la Noche' (1962) onwards. Set in the Balkans, this story concerns a bored journalist, Nora (miroslava) who is ordered by her boss (Wagner) to follow up a mysterious advertisement placed by Dr Ling (Linares Rivas). Ling turns out to be a misshapen creature who, rejected by his peers, has become the stereotypical mad scientist, here specializing in plastic surgery. He falls in love with Nora but fearing she will betray him he resuscitates a young man who committed suicide, Ariel (Navarro) by transplanting a new brain into him, and order him to fetch Nora so that he can kill her. However, Nora and Ariel fall in love, and the zombiesque youth rebels against the orders of his master, turning on him and kill him, whereupon Wagner saves Nora from the beautiful young zombie.
- DirectorJuan Bustillo OroStarsArturo de CórdovaCarmen MolinaMiguel Ángel FerrizA faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
- DirectorJuan Bustillo OroStarsCarlos VillaríasBeatriz RamosNatalia OrtizA 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 his son on an expedition to distant lands to study the medicine of the natives. Eight years later he returns from his trip without his son and in the company of a strange person with a pale mask.
- DirectorFernando de FuentesStarsMarta RoelEnrique del CampoCarlos VillatoroAlfonso (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 amigos suffer personality changes, specially Cristina who tries to seduce Alfonso in a strange coincidence to a story told by an old monk. After some efforts to escape, Alfonso is trapped inside a jail and more strange and macabre situations happen.
- DirectorJuan Bustillo OroStarsVíctor UrruchúaCarlos VillatoroMagda HallerWhen 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 cell, they recognize each other and Javier runs after him. Javier reaches Juan and hits his head with a heavy crucifix, and returns to his cell. Later, Javier confesses to the Prior that Juan was his best friend when he was a tubercular musician and how their friendship ended when his beloved fiancé Ana died. Then, Juan confesses to the Prior that Javier's confession is correct, but he would like to tell the same story through his eyes.
- DirectorFernando MéndezStarsAbel SalazarAriadne WelterGermán RoblesGraverobbers stumble upon the tomb of a vampire, who turns them into zombies to do his bidding, which is to stalk and capture beautiful women.
- DirectorFernando MéndezStarsGastón SantosRafael BertrandMapita CortésTwo 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.
- DirectorBenito AlazrakiStarsElvira QuintanaRamón GayRoberto G. RiveraFour 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.
- DirectorAlfonso Corona BlakeStarsGuillermo MurraySilvia FournierMauricio GarcésA vampire uses two sisters to seek revenge from the last member of a family that persecuted the vampires in Europe.
- DirectorChano UruetaStarsAbel SalazarAriadne WelterDavid SilvaIn 1661 Mexico, Baron Vitelius is executed for witchcraft. 300 years later, during a comet's return, he resurfaces as a brain-eating monster seeking revenge on the Inquisitors' descendants.
- DirectorChano UruetaStarsRosita ArenasArmando CalvoIsabela CoronaA husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch's mirror to take her revenge.
- DirectorRafael BaledónStarsRosita ArenasAbel SalazarRita MacedoAfter 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.
- DirectorCarlos Enrique TaboadaStarsMarga LópezMaricruz OlivierAlicia BonetGirls 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.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsArturo de CórdovaDelia GarcésAurora WalkerA 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.
- DirectorCarlos Enrique TaboadaStarsMarga LópezJoaquín CorderoNorma LazarenoA 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 demeanor may find its roots in the family garden.
- DirectorJuan López MoctezumaStarsClaudio BrookArthur HanselEllen ShermanThe 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.
- DirectorRené Cardona Jr.StarsAnjanette ComerHugo StiglitzZulma FaiadA wealthy playboy kidnaps and murders young women, feeding their corpses to his horde of felines.
- DirectorCarlos Enrique TaboadaStarsClaudia IslasSusana DosamantesLucía MéndezFour beautiful women move to an old house, inherited by the aunt of one of them, and witness strange things.
- DirectorJuan López MoctezumaStarsCristina FerrareDavid YoungJohn CarradineAn American artist with a penchant for drinking blood begins seducing and dispatching residents of a small fishing town in Mexico.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsDiana BrachoIsabela CoronaManuel OjedaOld 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.
- DirectorJuan López MoctezumaStarsClaudio BrookDavid SilvaTina RomeroAfter 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?
- DirectorRené Cardona Jr.StarsJohn HustonAndrés GarcíaHugo StiglitzThe 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.