REPOST: Guyana: Cult of the Damned (1979)
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This film was originally written about on January 16, 2019. We’ve brought it back for our Mexican horror celebration as an object lesson in the fact that life and good taste are both cheap in this cinema that is such a part of our hearts. René Cardona Jr. didn’t stop with making a […]
Macario (1960)
The first Mexican movie to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, it was also entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. It’s based on the B. Traven novel The Third Guest and is loosely based on an old border legend. It also bears similarities to the Grimm Fairy Tale Godfather Death or […]
El Eco del Miedo (2012)
America does not have a copyright on haunted house stories, as this modern Mexican horror film reminds us. A young woman is in dire need of cash. A child is in a new and unfamiliar place. And there’s a dog that links them both as they struggle to spend two nights in a house that […]
Mexican Barbaros 2 (2017)
The sequel to 2014’s Mexican Barbaros brings together more south of the border filmmakers to create a portmanteau movie that only had one rule: each story had to be about something related to Mexican culture without repeating anything from the first movie. Tijuana’s Abraham Sanchez starts the movie with Juan the Soldier, a story about a […]
Hasta el Viento Tiene Miedo (1967)
Translated as Even the Wind Is Afraid, this Carlos Enrique Taboada-directed horror film touches on the gothic and predates a very similar feeling film, Suspiria, by nearly a decade. It’s all about Claudia, a student who investigates a tower that keeps showing up in her nightmares, where she sees the hung body of a student who killed herself years […]
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