The Mexican Horror Vault (Mexican Horror films)
by osloj | created - 10 Feb 2016 | updated - 3 months ago | PublicSome of these films were co-produced between Mexico and other countries.
Some have a theme from Mexico but are made elsewhere.
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1. La bruja (1954)
90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Lilia del Valle, Ramón Gay, Julio Villarreal, Charles Rooner
Votes: 128
2. Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968)
TV-14 | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Girls 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.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Marga López, Maricruz Olivier, Alicia Bonet, Norma Lazareno
Votes: 2,022
3. The Wind of Fear (2007)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After a failed suicide attempt, Claudia is committed to an institution for troubled teens. Inside the place Claudia encounters the ghost of Andrea, a previous patient at the center who supposedly died at the facilities.
Director: Gustavo Moheno | Stars: Martha Higareda, Verónica Langer, María Aguilera, Omar Banana
Votes: 733
4. The Bloody Vampire (1962)
110 min | Horror
Count Cagliostro, whose family has tried for generations to rid the world of vampires, instructs his daughter and her fiance to protect several valuable documents.
Director: Miguel Morayta | Stars: Begoña Palacios, Erna Martha Bauman, Raúl Farell, Bertha Moss
Votes: 265
5. El hombre sin rostro (1950)
91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Carmen Molina, Miguel Ángel Ferriz, Queta Lavat
Votes: 198
6. Chanoc en la isla de los muertos (1977)
85 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Chanoc and Tzekub are stranded in an island after a storm wrecks their ship, and they must rescue a child from a local tribe.
Director: Rafael Pérez Grovas | Stars: Humberto Gurza, Ramón Valdés, Karime Moises, Carlos Zugasti
Votes: 33
7. Frankestein el vampiro y compañía (1962)
TV-14 | 76 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Two screwballs get mixed up with monsters, mad scientists and vampires.
Director: Benito Alazraki | Stars: Manuel 'Loco' Valdés, Martha Elena Cervantes, Nora Veryán, Roberto G. Rivera
Votes: 60
8. El vampiro (1957)
95 min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
A pretty young Mexican girl returns to her hometown to make funeral arrangements for her beloved aunt, who has just died. Soon she begins to hear disturbing stories about the town being ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter, Carmen Montejo, José Luis Jiménez
Votes: 1,013
9. Santo vs. the Vampire Women (1962)
Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Horror
A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnaping her and marrying her to the devil.
Director: Alfonso Corona Blake | Stars: Santo, Lorena Velázquez, María Duval, Jaime Fernández
Votes: 1,498
10. The Vengeance of the Vampire Women (1970)
85 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Doctor Igor Brancov brings back to life a group of vampire women who swear revenge on Santo as he is the descendant of the man who defeated them back in the 19th century,
Director: Federico Curiel | Stars: Santo, Norma Lazareno, Gina Romand, Aldo Monti
Votes: 112
11. The Curse of La Llorona (2019)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm.
Director: Michael Chaves | Stars: Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez, Marisol Ramirez
Votes: 57,672 | Gross: $54.73M
American horror film, based on the Mexican folklore of La Llorona.
12. The Scapular (1968)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
Director: Servando González | Stars: Enrique Lizalde, Enrique Aguilar, Carlos Cardán, Federico Falcón
Votes: 362
13. Retorno a la juventud (1954)
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
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.
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Enrique Rambal, Rosario Granados, Carlos López Moctezuma, Andrés Soler
Votes: 56
14. Vagabundo en la lluvia (1968)
87 min | Drama, Thriller, Horror
Two women from different social spheres but with similar interests decide to spend a weekend in the country. The unexpected arrival or a vagrant turns the peaceful vacation into a nightmare of horror and human passion.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Rodolfo de Anda, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Christa Linder, Norma Lazareno
Votes: 111
15. Rocambole contra las mujeres arpías (1967)
87 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
Mexican superhero Rocambole fights a group of female thieves who are under the control of an evil mastermind.
Director: Emilio Gómez Muriel | Stars: Julio Alemán, María Duval, Chucho Salinas, Carlos López Moctezuma
Votes: 33
16. The Black Pit of Dr. M (1959)
Approved | 71 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Two 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.
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Gastón Santos, Rafael Bertrand, Mapita Cortés, Carlos Ancira
Votes: 738
17. Night of the Bloody Apes (1969)
R | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A doctor tries to save his son's life through a complicated heart transplant operation, the involuntary donor being a gorilla. Eventually, the young man turns into a violent hybrid beast.
Director: René Cardona | Stars: José Elías Moreno, Carlos López Moctezuma, Armando Silvestre, Norma Lazareno
Votes: 1,228
18. The Witch's Mirror (1960)
Approved | 76 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch's mirror to take her revenge.
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Rosita Arenas, Armando Calvo, Isabela Corona, Dina de Marco
Votes: 959
19. Darker Than Night (1975)
102 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Four beautiful women move to an old house, inherited by the aunt of one of them, and witness strange things.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Claudia Islas, Susana Dosamantes, Lucía Méndez, Helena Rojo
Votes: 1,459
20. Darker Than Night (2014)
R | 110 min | Horror
Greta moves into her recently deceased aunt's mansion and starts throwing wild parties with her friends; however, what looks to be the best summer of their lives turns into a fight for their lives after Beker, her aunt's prized cat, drowns in the home's pool.
Director: Henry Bedwell | Stars: Zuria Vega, Adriana Louvier, Eréndira Ibarra, Ona Casamiquela
Votes: 1,010 | Gross: $0.86M
21. La loba (1965)
78 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Professor Fernandez is studying the metamorphosis in living organisms to cure his daughter of a strange disease that occurs in full moon nights.
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Kitty de Hoyos, Joaquín Cordero, Columba Domínguez, José Elías Moreno
Votes: 151
22. The Book of Stone (1969)
99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Marga López, Joaquín Cordero, Norma Lazareno, Aldo Monti
Votes: 1,242
23. All of them Witches (1996)
PG | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A woman sees her best friend murdered before her eyes, and thus becomes very traumatised. Her husband tells her to stay at home, where she discovers a little gris-gris bag. She opens the ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Gruener | Stars: Susana Zabaleta, Alejandro Tommasi, Ricardo Blume, Delia Casanova
Votes: 305
24. El libro de piedra (2009)
84 min | Horror, Mystery
Julieta is a young child psychologist hired by millionaire Eugenio Ruvalcaba, to work with his only daughter, Sylvia, who has severe emotional problems, while staying in their isolated ... See full summary »
Director: Julio Cesar Estrada | Stars: Ludwika Paleta, Plutarco Haza, Evangelina Sosa, Enoc Leaño
Votes: 165
25. Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon (1973)
R | 82 min | Horror
The 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.
Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Claudio Brook, Arthur Hansel, Ellen Sherman, Martin LaSalle
Votes: 1,304
26. The Panther Women (1967)
TV-PG | 87 min | Horror, Action, Sci-Fi
The Panther women are worshipers of Satan and perform rituals in their honor and sacrifice. The fighters will face them up and down the ring.
Director: René Cardona | Stars: Ariadne Welter, Elizabeth Campbell, Tongolele, Eric del Castillo
Votes: 130
27. The Wailer (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror
On their way to Mexico, six students are stranded in a small town where years before a tragedy took place. The students find accommodation in a small cabin where unexplainable things begin ... See full summary »
Director: Andrés Navia | Stars: Vanessa Rice, John Patrick Jordan, Hugo Medina, Brenda Mejia
Votes: 270
28. Cronos (1992)
R | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel
Votes: 33,129 | Gross: $0.62M
29. Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (1960)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after fifteen years of hellish marriage.
Director: Rogelio A. González | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Amparo Rivelles, Elda Peralta, Guillermo Orea
Votes: 2,110
30. Alucarda (1977)
R | 78 min | Horror
After 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?
Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Claudio Brook, David Silva, Tina Romero, Susana Kamini
Votes: 4,089
31. Muñecos infernales (1961)
Approved | 81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Four 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.
Director: Benito Alazraki | Stars: Elvira Quintana, Ramón Gay, Roberto G. Rivera, Quintín Bulnes
Votes: 363
32. Doctor of Doom (1963)
77 min | Action, Crime, Horror
A mad scientist terrorizes a city by kidnapping young women with his ape-man Gomar and then using them as subjects in sadistic brain transplant experiments. A female wrestler whose sister ... See full summary »
Directors: René Cardona, Manuel San Fernando | Stars: Lorena Velázquez, Armando Silvestre, Elizabeth Campbell, Roberto Cañedo
Votes: 367
33. Demonoid (1981)
R | 78 min | Horror
Spouses looking for silver in Mexico find a 300 year old severed hand driven by a demon.
Director: Alfredo Zacarías | Stars: Samantha Eggar, Stuart Whitman, Roy Jenson, Narciso Busquets
Votes: 1,822
34. Al filo del terror (1990)
92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A famous ventriloquist whose career is going down hill takes his anger out on his strange puppets who seem to have a life of their own.
Director: Alfredo B. Crevenna | Stars: Fernando Almada, Lina Santos, Roberto Cañedo, Karla Talavera
Votes: 60
35. Santo and Blue Demon vs. Dr. Frankenstein (1974)
95 min | Action, Horror, Adventure
El Santo and Blue Demon team up with a couple of detectives to stop the grandson of Dr Frankenstein from conducting fiendish brain transplant experiments.
Director: Miguel M. Delgado | Stars: Santo, Alejandro Moreno, Sasha Montenegro, Jorge Russek
Votes: 261
36. Espiritismo (1962)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Satan gives a woman three wishes in this version of the classic tale, "The Monkey's Paw."
Director: Benito Alazraki | Stars: José Luis Jiménez, Nora Veryán, Beatriz Aguirre, Alicia Caro
Votes: 130
37. Intrépidos punks (1988)
91 min | Action, Crime
A gang of punks, led by a masquerader named Tarzan; terrorizing a small Mexican city, robbing banks, raping women, and killing people with cruelties. Two enforcers Marco and Javier fight this gang of punks.
Director: Francisco Guerrero | Stars: Juan Valentín, Juan Gallardo, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Princesa Lea
Votes: 214
38. Morgana (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror
A remote lakeside village hides an old and terrifying secret. One hundred years after the suicide of a woman named Morgana, a newcomer is confronted with the terrifying reality that the ... See full summary »
Director: Ramón Obón | Stars: Siouzana Melikian, Lilia Aragón, Alejandra Adame, Luis Felipe Tovar
Votes: 327
39. The Cry (2007)
R | 83 min | Horror, Thriller
In New York, detective Alex Scott is investigating with his partner Sergio Perez the disappearance of several children. When they visit the Mexican witch Gloria, the woman advises that a ... See full summary »
Director: Bernadine Santistevan | Stars: Roberto Quintana Jr., Jayden Vargas, Adriana Domínguez, Quinn McCann
Votes: 577 | Gross: $0.02M
40. Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975)
R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An American artist with a penchant for drinking blood begins seducing and dispatching residents of a small fishing town in Mexico.
Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Cristina Ferrare, David Young, John Carradine, Helena Rojo
Votes: 774
41. The Vampire's Coffin (1958)
80 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Graverobbers stumble upon the tomb of a vampire, who turns them into zombies to do his bidding, which is to stalk and capture beautiful women.
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter, Germán Robles, Yerye Beirute
Votes: 638
42. Santo vs. the Martian Invasion (1967)
92 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
The masked wrestler battles Martians intent on taking over Earth.
Director: Alfredo B. Crevenna | Stars: Santo, Wolf Ruvinskis, Ignacio Gómez, Beny Galán
Votes: 376
43. La Llorona (1960)
75 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Felipe and Margarita get married and have a boy named Jorgito. Her uncle Gerardo tell them about a curse that affects the first born boy in the family.
Director: René Cardona | Stars: María Elena Marqués, Eduardo Fajardo, Luz María Aguilar, Carlos López Moctezuma
Votes: 147
44. The Mystery of the Ghastly Face (1935)
88 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Carlos Villarías, Beatriz Ramos, Natalia Ortiz, Manuel Noriega
Votes: 61
45. The Macabre Trunk (1936)
79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery
A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
Director: Miguel Zacarías | Stars: Ramón Pereda, René Cardona, Manuel Noriega, Esther Fernández
Votes: 55
46. El hombre y el monstruo (1959)
78 min | Horror
A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster.
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Enrique Rambal, Abel Salazar, Martha Roth, Ofelia Guilmáin
Votes: 322
47. Poison for the Fairies (1986)
90 min | Fantasy, Horror
A 10 year old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Ana Patricia Rojo, Elsa María Gutiérrez, Leonor Llausás, Carmen Stein
Votes: 2,561
48. The Body Snatcher (1957)
80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Columba Domínguez, Crox Alvarado, Wolf Ruvinskis, Carlos Riquelme
Votes: 218
49. The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy (1964)
85 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
If you've ever longed for a movie about wrestling women who take on various monsters, this is it. There is Xochitl, a female mummy, and her lover Tezomoc who is also a mummy, and he can ... See full summary »
Director: René Cardona | Stars: Lorena Velázquez, Armando Silvestre, Elizabeth Campbell, María Eugenia San Martín
Votes: 395
50. The Curse of the Crying Woman (1963)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After 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.
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Rosita Arenas, Abel Salazar, Rita Macedo, Carlos López Moctezuma
Votes: 782
51. Evil Eye (1975)
R | 106 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
The police has to face some extremely brutal murders. How is the rich playboy Peter Crane (Jorge Rivero) involved in this? He suffers from horrible nightmares that make him believe that he is responsible for these murders.
Director: Mario Siciliano | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Richard Conte, Pilar Velázquez, Jorge Rivero
Votes: 399
52. La llorona (1933)
73 min | Horror, Mystery
In modern day Mexico, a man on the street is supernaturally killed after hearing the eerie sound of a wailing woman. We then arrive at the manor of an upper class family, who are ... See full summary »
Director: Ramón Peón | Stars: Ramón Pereda, Virginia Zurí, Carlos Orellana, Adriana Lamar
Votes: 343
53. She-Wolves of the Ring (1965)
TV-G | 85 min | Drama, Action
Los problemas Íntimos y las maldades de sus amigos los resuelven en el ring.
Director: René Cardona | Stars: Lorena Velázquez, Elizabeth Campbell, María Eugenia San Martín, Sonia Infante
Votes: 71
54. Cemetery of Terror (1985)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
On Halloween, a group of medical students steal the corpse a serial killer from a morgue and raise him from the dead, inadvertently putting themselves and a group of young neighborhood children in danger.
Director: Rubén Galindo Jr. | Stars: Hugo Stiglitz, Usi Velasco, Erika Buenfil, Edna Bolkan
Votes: 1,364
55. La sombra del murciélago (1968)
90 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
A former wrestler called "the bat" lives in hiding after being disfigured and plans to kidnap a beautiful female singer and a lucha libre star known as Blue Demon.
Director: Federico Curiel | Stars: Jaime Fernández, Marta Romero, Alejandro Moreno, Fernando Osés
Votes: 47
56. Vacation of Terror (1989)
Not Rated | 81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An evil witch gets burned at the stake, but not before vowing to return and get her revenge. A hundred years later a family arrived to spend their vacation at a summer home located in the ... See full summary »
Director: René Cardona III | Stars: Pedro Fernández, Julio Alemán, Gabriela Hassel, Nuria Bages
Votes: 534
57. El fantasma del convento (1934)
85 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
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... See full summary »
Director: Fernando de Fuentes | Stars: Marta Roel, Enrique del Campo, Carlos Villatoro, Paco Martínez
Votes: 442
58. Hell's Trap (1989)
Unrated | 90 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Two rivaling groups of friends intend to hunt a bear on a forest, but soon they are stalked by a masked madman Vietnam veteran.
Director: Pedro Galindo III | Stars: Pedro Fernández, Edith González, Toño Mauri, Charly Valentino
Votes: 257
59. Mutantes del año 2000 (1992 Video)
97 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
In a bleak near future the world has really gone to seed due to severe pollution. Toxic smog, acid rain, and grotesquely mutated animals are all direct results of this environmental decay. ... See full summary »
Director: Rubén Galindo Jr. | Stars: Gerardo Albarrán, Rossana San Juan, José Manuel Fernández, Óscar Vallejo
Votes: 83
60. Don't Panic (1987)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror
On his seventeenth birthday, Michael unwittingly unlocks the evil forces of a Ouija board.
Director: Rubén Galindo Jr. | Stars: Jon Michael Bischof, Gabriela Hassel, Helena Rojo, Jorge Luke
Votes: 1,497
61. La sangre de Nostradamus (1962)
98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Vampire hunters track down a vampire and attempt to steal the ashes from his coffin in order to stop him from reviving nightly.
Directors: Federico Curiel, Stillman Segar | Stars: Germán Robles, Julio Alemán, Domingo Soler, Aurora Alvarado
Votes: 63
62. The Curse of Nostradamus (1961)
78 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
An aristocratic vampire swears an oath to kill the enemies who killed his father. In order to terrify them even further, he warns each one when he is coming for them.
Directors: Federico Curiel, Stillman Segar | Stars: Germán Robles, Julio Alemán, Domingo Soler, Aurora Alvarado
Votes: 99
63. Nostradamus y el destructor de monstruos (1962)
74 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A professor and a vampire hunter join forces to destroy the murderous vampire Nostradamus and his minions.
Director: Federico Curiel | Stars: Germán Robles, Julio Alemán, Domingo Soler, Aurora Alvarado
Votes: 102
64. Satanico Pandemonium (1975)
Not Rated | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young nun is tempted by visions of forbidden sexual fantasies to cross over to Satan.
Director: Gilberto Martínez Solares | Stars: Enrique Rocha, Cecilia Pezet, Delia Magaña, Clemencia Colin
Votes: 1,519
65. Baron Brakola (1967)
77 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The evil Baron Brakola wakes up from his sleep in order to take revenge and defeat the man in the silver mask.
Director: José Díaz Morales | Stars: Santo, Fernando Osés, Mercedes Carreño, Antonio de Hud
Votes: 54
66. Grave Robbers (1989)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Teenagers accidentally resurrect a satanic killer who targets the local police captain's daughter to birth the antichrist.
Director: Rubén Galindo Jr. | Stars: Fernando Almada, Edna Bolkan, Erika Buenfil, Ernesto Laguardia
Votes: 1,053
67. Los ritos sexuales del diablo (1982)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young woman travels to England after the abrupt death of her brother. Staying with her sister-in-law, she finds her companion soon drawn into a satanic cult based in the house, whose rites seem to centre on large-scale sexual congress.
Director: José Ramón Larraz | Stars: Helga Liné, Vanessa Hidalgo, Jeffrey Healey, Alfred Lucchetti
Votes: 1,211
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68. The Dead Speak (1935)
Drama, Horror, Mystery
Director: Gabriel Soria | Stars: Julián Soler, Amelia de Ilisa, Manuel Noriega, Miguel Arenas
Votes: 38
69. The Brainiac (1962)
Approved | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears ... See full summary »
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter, David Silva, Germán Robles
Votes: 1,309
70. La puerta y la mujer del carnicero (1969)
87 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A movie divided in two segments, the first "la Puerta" (the Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a menacing human ... See full summary »
Directors: Luis Alcoriza, Ismael Rodríguez, Chano Urueta | Stars: Ana Luisa Peluffo, Carlos Piñar, Armando Silvestre, Beatriz Baz
Votes: 137
71. El Monstruo Resucitado (1953)
TV-14 | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Miroslava, Carlos Navarro, José María Linares-Rivas, Fernando Wagner
Votes: 144
72. La tía Alejandra (1980)
98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Old 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.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Diana Bracho, Isabela Corona, Manuel Ojeda, María Rebeca
Votes: 451
73. The Empire of Dracula (1967)
85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In this partial remake of "Dracula, Prince of Darkness," a handsome vampire named Draculstein is resurrected by his manservant, Igor, so that Draculstein may avenge himself against the son of the man who killed him years earlier.
Director: Federico Curiel | Stars: Lucha Villa, César del Campo, Eric del Castillo, Ethel Carrillo
Votes: 92
74. The Witches Attack (1968)
TV-14 | 76 min | Adventure, Horror, Fantasy
Santo must battle an evil witch and the demons and evil spirits she brings up from Hell.
Director: José Díaz Morales | Stars: Santo, Lorena Velázquez, María Eugenia San Martín, Ramón Bugarini
Votes: 147
75. Hellish Spiders (1968)
Not Rated | 85 min | Sci-Fi, Action, Horror
Arácnea's residents have been desperately searching for a source of food to save the life of their queen. Earth is chosen, since human brains are apparently like health food for alien spiders.
Director: Federico Curiel | Stars: Alejandro Moreno, Blanca Sánchez, Martha Elena Cervantes, Ramón Bugarini
Votes: 89
76. Las vampiras (1969)
91 min | Horror
A wrestler (Mil Máscaras) tries to break up a covey of vampires, led by the King of Vampires (Carradine)
Director: Federico Curiel | Stars: John Carradine, María Duval, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mil Máscaras
Votes: 92
77. El hombre que logró ser invisible (1958)
96 min | Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror
A scientist discovers a formula that makes him invisible.
Director: Alfredo B. Crevenna | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Raúl Meraz, Augusto Benedico
Votes: 109
78. Neutrón contra el Dr. Caronte (1963)
80 min | Sci-Fi, Action, Horror
Neutron, a superhero/wrestler, goes up against a mad scientist and his army of monsters.
Director: Federico Curiel | Stars: Wolf Ruvinskis, Julio Alemán, Armando Silvestre, Rosita Arenas
Votes: 66
79. Los autómatas de la muerte (1962)
80 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The evil scientist Dr. Caronte plots to revive the brains of three dead scientists and use them to obtain the formula for the super-powerful neutron bomb. The resulting creation needs blood... See full summary »
Director: Federico Curiel | Stars: Wolf Ruvinskis, Julio Alemán, Armando Silvestre, Roberto Ramírez Garza
Votes: 216
81. 100 Cries of Terror (1965)
100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A husband and his lover hatch a plan to murder his wife, and a woman is buried alive in a mausoleum.
Director: Ramón Obón | Stars: Ariadne Welter, Joaquín Cordero, Ofelia Montesco, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos
Votes: 130
82. El beso de ultratumba (1963)
TV-14 | 85 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A newlywed couple finds themselves broke when the woman's father dies deeply in debt. Forced to sell their belongings, they move into a rundown house from which they get very bad vibes. ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Toussaint | Stars: Ana Bertha Lepe, Sergio Jurado, Alonso Castaño, Guillermo Álvarez Bianchi
Votes: 62
83. El mundo de los vampiros (1961)
83 min | Horror
A vampire uses two sisters to seek revenge from the last member of a family that persecuted the vampires in Europe.
Director: Alfonso Corona Blake | Stars: Guillermo Murray, Silvia Fournier, Mauricio Garcés, Erna Martha Bauman
Votes: 227
84. The Fearmaker (1971)
PG | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A world-famous stage performer returns home following her father's death, only to find greed and evil awaiting.
Director: Anthony Carras | Stars: Katy Jurado, Paul Picerni, Sonia Amelio, Fernando Soler
Votes: 86
85. We Are the Flesh (2016)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After wandering a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter, two siblings find their way into one of the last remaining buildings. Inside, they find a man who will make them a dangerous offer to survive the outside world.
Director: Emiliano Rocha Minter | Stars: Noé Hernández, María Evoli, Diego Gamaliel, Jonathan Miralda
Votes: 3,291
86. The Revenge of the Crying Woman (1974)
87 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Santo, a hero wrestler, helps a professor and his beautiful niece find a clue to a treasure that will be used to help local children. The clue is a medallion worn by a mummy in a cave, ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel M. Delgado | Stars: Santo, José Mantequilla Nápoles, Kikis Herrera Calles, Alonso Castaño
Votes: 139
87. Come Out and Play (I) (2012)
R | 87 min | Horror
A couple take a vacation to a remote island - their last holiday together before they become parents. Soon after their arrival, they notice that no adults seem to be present - an observation that quickly presents a nightmarish reality.
Director: Makinov | Stars: Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Vinessa Shaw, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Gerardo Taracena
Votes: 3,409
88. KM 31: Kilómetro 31 (2006)
R | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Following a horrible car accident on a wooded road near Mexico City, Agata goes into a coma. Her twin sister Catalina must try to solve the mystery of her sister's accident next to the Km. 31 marker and discovers a terrifying local legend.
Director: Rigoberto Castañeda | Stars: Iliana Fox, Adrià Collado, Raúl Méndez, Luisa Huertas
Votes: 3,577
89. Km 31-2 (2016)
R | 105 min | Horror
The police officer Martin Ugalde is called to investigate a series of kidnappings in Mexico City of kids between 6 and 9 years old. Immediately, he realizes these abductions have a special link with the case seven years before.
Director: Rigoberto Castañeda | Stars: Carlos Aragón, Mauricio García Lozano, Adrià Collado, Verónica Merchant
Votes: 266
90. Nightmare City (1980)
R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal
Votes: 6,733
91. Atrocious (2010)
R | 79 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Two teenage siblings endure a terrifying experience while investigating a rural legend near their family's vacation home.
Director: Fernando Barreda Luna | Stars: Cristian Valencia, Clara Moraleda, Chus Pereiro, Sergi Martin
Votes: 5,246
92. Atrocious (2015)
79 min | Horror
While examining a traffic accident where a woman was badly hurt, the unorthodox police commander finds proof of even more gruesome facts and decides to deal out vengeful justice.
Director: Lex Ortega | Stars: David Aboussafy, Abigail Bonilla, Ricardo Brito, Alberto Hernandez Campusano
Votes: 1,012
93. Beautiful Prison (2016)
TV-MA | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Ben, a brain-damaged young man living in Mexico, awakens after a violent accident to a restored intellect and supernatural abilities, which allow him to control the happenings of his world.
Director: Joel Vallie | Stars: Mónica Almanza, Valentina Arnold, Kristen Barrett, Benjamin Chamberlain
Votes: 748
94. The Bermuda Triangle (1978)
G | 112 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery
The 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.
Director: René Cardona Jr. | Stars: John Huston, Andrés García, Hugo Stiglitz, Gloria Guida
Votes: 1,664
95. 1974: La posesión de Altair (2016)
82 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A newlywed couple disappeared in 1974, their 8mm tapes reveal one of the most horrifying events in Mexican history.
Director: Victor Dryere | Stars: Diana Bovio, Rolando Breme, Guillermo Callahan, Blanca Alarcón
Votes: 646
96. Archivo 253 (2015)
R | 79 min | Horror, Mystery
A group of amateur paranormal investigators enter an abandoned insane asylum to discover if the stories they have heard are actually true.
Director: Abe Rosenberg | Stars: Michel Chauvet, Anna Cetti, Mario Escalante, Juan Luis Tovar
Votes: 809
97. Tintorera: Killer Shark (1977)
R | 126 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast.
Director: René Cardona Jr. | Stars: Susan George, Hugo Stiglitz, Andrés García, Fiona Lewis
Votes: 1,521
98. Isle of the Snake People (1971)
Unrated | 90 min | Horror, Mystery
Evil scientist runs a veritable army of LSD crazed zombies.
Directors: Juan Ibáñez, Jack Hill | Stars: Boris Karloff, Julissa, Carlos East, Rafael Bertrand
Votes: 1,062
99. Night of 1000 Cats (1972)
R | 63 min | Horror
A wealthy playboy kidnaps and murders young women, feeding their corpses to his horde of felines.
Director: René Cardona Jr. | Stars: Anjanette Comer, Hugo Stiglitz, Zulma Faiad, Christa Linder
Votes: 872
100. Curse of the Devil (1973)
R | 73 min | Horror
A man whose ancestors executed a witch is turned into a werewolf by modern-day descendants of the executed witch.
Director: Carlos Aured | Stars: Paul Naschy, Fabiola Falcón, Mariano Vidal Molina, Maritza Olivares
Votes: 905
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