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Barbarous Mexico

Original title: México Bárbaro
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 54m
IMDb RATING
4.7/10
1.1K
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Claudia Piotrowska in Barbarous Mexico (2014)
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Eight Mexican directors unite to bring tales of the most brutally terrifying Mexican traditions and legends to vividly shocking life.Eight Mexican directors unite to bring tales of the most brutally terrifying Mexican traditions and legends to vividly shocking life.Eight Mexican directors unite to bring tales of the most brutally terrifying Mexican traditions and legends to vividly shocking life.

  • Directors
    • Isaac Ezban
    • Laurette Flores Bornn
    • Jorge Michel Grau
  • Writers
    • Isaac Ezban
    • Laurette Flores Bornn
    • Jorge Michel Grau
  • Stars
    • Memo Villegas
    • Marco Zapata
    • Antonio Monroi
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.7/10
    1.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Isaac Ezban
      • Laurette Flores Bornn
      • Jorge Michel Grau
    • Writers
      • Isaac Ezban
      • Laurette Flores Bornn
      • Jorge Michel Grau
    • Stars
      • Memo Villegas
      • Marco Zapata
      • Antonio Monroi
    • 18User reviews
    • 30Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination total

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    Memo Villegas
    Memo Villegas
    • Informante (segment "Tzompantli")
    Marco Zapata
    • Periodista (segment "Tzompantli")
    Antonio Monroi
    • Narrador (segment "Tzompantli")
    • (voice)
    Fermín Ramírez
    • Caballero Águila (segment "Tzompantli")
    • (as Fermín Ramírez T.)
    Jose Luis Guevara
    • Periodista viejo (segment "Tzompantli")
    Harold Torres
    Harold Torres
    • José (segment "Jaral de Berrios")
    Waldo Facco
    • Martín (segment "Jaral de Berrios")
    Florencia Ríos
    Florencia Ríos
    • Ninfa (segment "Jaral de Berrios")
    Leslie Arce
    • Adolecente (segment "Drena")
    Joyce Cuervo
    • Hermana (segment "Drena")
    Barbara Perrin Rivemar
    • Entidad (segment "Drena")
    Sara Camacho
    • Valeria (segment "La cosa más preciada")
    Rubén Zerecero
    • Javier (segment "La cosa más preciada")
    Tulio Gomez De Alba
    • Fermín (segment "La cosa más preciada")
    Antonio Garcia
    • Alushe Principal (segment "La cosa más preciada")
    Joel Gomez
    • Administrador (segment "La cosa más preciada")
    Amador Torralba
    • Alushe del fondo #1 (segment "La cosa más preciada")
    Miguel Ángel Chávez
    • Alushe del fondo #2 (segment "La cosa más preciada")
    • Directors
      • Isaac Ezban
      • Laurette Flores Bornn
      • Jorge Michel Grau
    • Writers
      • Isaac Ezban
      • Laurette Flores Bornn
      • Jorge Michel Grau
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    User reviews18

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    3cynthiacaton

    Did the producers watch this movie before releasing?

    Normally, this type of movie would be just up my street but Mexico Barbaro is terrible. It starts off promising but the stories are short, violent, and ultimately either uninteresting or stupid. Such a wasted opportunity.

    There are 2 decent stories but the rest are unrealized and foolish. I wish they had fleshed out some of the stories and cut the rest!
    4GreyHunter

    To be fair...

    The quality of most of these shorts is actually pretty good in terms of camera-work and cinematography. The quality of the acting ios decent too, mostly. There's really nothing to earn a low rating on those grounds. If these are representative of current Mexican cinema, they're actually pretty good exemplars to praise.

    Now...the stories and approaches to horror...well, that's another issue. A couple of them weren't bad, primarily the 2nd one, set in a haunted hacienda. But somewhere along the line, Mexican horror filmmaking seems to have equated horror with disgusting and off-putting. And that's a huge problem. When you leave your audience more queasy than scared, you've failed at horror. There;s a reason the genre is called 'horror movies' rather than 'disgusting movies'. Your core audience might be somewhat jaded to gore, but that's not really the reason why (most of them) watch.

    Just on filmmaking grounds alone, there's a lot of promise for Mexican cinema on display here. If these filmmakers manage to substitute real horror for excessive viscera, I'd certainly love to watch what they put out.

    (Also, several of them drag out shots and scenes for far too long. But that's an easily correctable issue.)
    6olcayozfirat

    The movie was better than I expected

    Mexican origin horror film, the first of which was produced in 2014 and consists of 8 short stories. Eight different directors were told to choose Mexican legends and they shot these legends from their own perspectives. Wild scenes and sexuality abound in the movies. Even though I watched the movie with a lot of prejudice, there were parts that I liked. In places, make-up and costumes were very amateurish. Names and directors of the short stories:

    1- Tzompantli, Laurette Flores 2- Jaral de Berrios, Edgar Nito 3- Drena, Aaron Soto 4- La cosa mas preciada, Isaac Ezban 5- Lo que importa es lo de adentro, Lex Ortega 6- Muñecas, Jorge Michel Grau 7- Siete veces siete, Ulises Gùzman 8- Dia de los Muertos, GiGi Saul Guerrero

    The second part of the movie was released in 2017.
    4Fella_shibby

    A wannabe anthology film done very badly.

    The first one - Awful. The second one has good boobs, good atmosphere n a bit western feel. The third one is beyond redemption. The 4th one is gross n not at all funny. The 5th one is again offensive like the previous one. The 6th one is unnecessarily shot in bnw. Camera lingers on ruined toys for a long time. There is some creepy music n then the big wtf end. The 7th one is a revenge story but done very badly with a bit of gore. The last one is silly but very gory. Its about strippers but there ain't no nudity but lots of gore. A man's nose get bitten off, another one's eyeball gets pierced, another one's eardrum gets pierced, face gets bludgeoned, face gets smashed, hand gets chopped, neck gets stabbed, neck gets sliced by a barbwire. Shockingly the end credits goes on for 16 mins.
    1rafaelfuser

    Piece of S**t

    I don't have words to talk about this waste of time. The Mexico's horror cinema is just an upset...

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    • Release date
      • August 23, 2015 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Mexico
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    • Language
      • Spanish
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      • 1h 54m(114 min)
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