Mexican Horror Films 1933-1980

In modern Mexico, a malevolent spirit targets a family, linking tragic past events of abandoned, infanticidal mothers to a possessed intruder's attempt to sacrifice their son.

When 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.

Alfonso (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.

A medical student and his professor invent a machine capable of seeing the last image in the retina of a dying man's eyes. In this way, the two help the police solve a complex homicide case that threatened to go unsolved.

A 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.

A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.

The story of a murder inspired by an ancient Aztec ritual in honor of Quetzalcoatl by a lost codes.

A brilliant plastic surgeon uses his skills to mutilate the faces of his cheating wife and her lover.

A detective comes to the aid of a couple who are terrorized in a lonely mansion.

Fu Man Chu must find a murderer, the only clue he has is a series of wax heads that have appeared.

Tin Tan is involved in a murder where the dead man turns out to be himself.

A doctor assigned to an Indian reservation area assumes the secret identity of the "Ghost Rider", an indigenous deity, to counter a gang that is dedicated to making life impossible for the natives.

A young man returns to the family homestead after having been away for a few years. He returns from abroad accompanied by a mysterious.

Magician Fu Manchu must find a way out of a supposed haunted house.

A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.

The 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.

An old professor in love with one of his students is rejected by her because of his advanced age. He then sells his soul in return for youth and a chance at love, but the things don't go as he planned.

Thieves 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.

A drug dealer is murdered and an innocent man is accused. Chan Li Po investigates a series of people from different social spheres, all addicted to marijuana, to finally discover the real culprit, who turns out to be the dealer's own wife.