In recent years, classic Mexican horror has gained a deeper appreciation and curiosity from international horror audiences wanting to experience the unique terror of Mexican horror.
Mexico Macabre: Four Sinister Tales from the Alameda Films Fault 1959-1963, the box set released by Indicator, highlights four iconic films from the golden age of Mexican horror cinema, Black Pit of Dr. M, The Witch’s Mirror, The Brainiac, and The Curse of the Crying Woman, from the influential Mexican production company Alameda Films. These films broke boundaries and pioneered new artistic styles in Mexican cinema, blending the influence of gothic imagery from American and European cinema with Mexican culture and history. The artistic influences of these films can be seen deeply embedded in the horror films and filmmakers of Mexico from the gothic style of Guillermo del Toro to the modern trailblazing Mexican horror films Tigers are Not Afraid and Huesera: The Bone Woman.
Mexico Macabre: Four Sinister Tales from the Alameda Films Fault 1959-1963, the box set released by Indicator, highlights four iconic films from the golden age of Mexican horror cinema, Black Pit of Dr. M, The Witch’s Mirror, The Brainiac, and The Curse of the Crying Woman, from the influential Mexican production company Alameda Films. These films broke boundaries and pioneered new artistic styles in Mexican cinema, blending the influence of gothic imagery from American and European cinema with Mexican culture and history. The artistic influences of these films can be seen deeply embedded in the horror films and filmmakers of Mexico from the gothic style of Guillermo del Toro to the modern trailblazing Mexican horror films Tigers are Not Afraid and Huesera: The Bone Woman.
- 2/22/2024
- by Justina Bonilla
- DailyDead
An elemental Western about inherited sins and the difference between honor and pride, Arturo Ripstein's Time to Die follows a man who, having served 18 years in jail to pay for killing a man, finds the victim's sons now believe he owes his life as well. Said to be the first produced screenplay by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who wrote it with Carlos Fuentes, it was also the directing debut of Ripstein, who had just helped his father Alfredo Ripstein produce Luis Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel. Finally seeing American release and beautifully restored, the involving picture is no museum piece; it...
- 9/15/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Picking up the Best First Film award at the Berlinale, Gabriel Ripstein's "600 Miles" may be the work of a neophyte director, but Ripstein is no stranger to the filmmaking world. He himself has a background as a producer, and is the son of one of Mexico's most enduringly acclaimed directors, Arturo Ripstein ("Deep Crimson"). And he's the grandson of prolific producer Alfredo Ripstein, widely referred to as a founding father of the Mexican film industry. With that pedigree, it feels inevitable not only that Gabriel would follow in the family trade, but that his first directorial film (which he also co-wrote), would be something like "600 Miles" -- a lean, careful, clever tale of divided loyalties and divided territories in the borderlands of Mexico and the U.S. Small in scale and pragmatically narrow in scope, "600 Miles" starts out with an effective bait-and-switch, establishing tension in a deeply uncomfortable scene during which a young.
- 2/15/2015
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
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