Perdita Durango (1997)
We talked about Álex de la Iglesia and his film Day of the Beast here before. Now, we have another of us films, based on the 1992 Barry Gifford novel 59° and Raining: The Story of Perdita Durango. It also takes inspiration from Magdalena Solís, the so-called “High Priestess of Blood,” who was hired by Santos […]
Masacre en Río Grande (1988)
Mario and Fernando Almada are back at war with one another in the sequel to 1984’s La Muerte del Chacal. Yet while that movie was a giallo ala Mexico, this one is content to be a slasher, placing victim after victim in the path of its killer. Drills to the head, three women stabbed in the […]
Ahi Va el Diablo (2012)
You need to get to know Adrian Garcia Bogliano. Beyond this movie and Late Phases, he has a movie called Black Circle that’s trying to get picked up in the U.S. I have no idea why it hasn’t, because it has a story about possessed vinyl records and one of the first roles for They Call Her […]
Simon of the Desert (1965)
This film is based on the life of ascetic 5th-century Syrian saint Simeon Stylites, who lived for nearly 40 years on top of a column. It was directed by Luis Buñuel after he had to take his second exile in Mexico, as his movies were lambasted by the government and the Vatican. Along with Viridiana […]
La Muerte del Chacal (1984)
Mario and Fernando Almada are brothers that ended up in the same movie, with Mario as Sheriff Bob (BOB!) and Fernando as the equally epically titled Roy. They had another brother named Horacio who stayed home, far away from this movie that’s pretty much a cop movie that turns into a Mexican giallo. No puedo […]
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