Having viewed Museo del horror (1964-also reviewed) yesterday,I decided to continue exploring the Mexican Horror flicks fellow IMDber melvelvit-1 had kindly sent me. The one I was the most intrigued about due to the format,I opened the door.
View on the film:
Planned as the first in a anthology series of movies, but falling at the first hurdle, co-writers/(with Pedro F. Miret and Mario Hernandez) co-directors Luis Alcoriza/ Ismael Rodriguez & Chano Urueta leave out the traditional wraparound story of anthology films, instead linking the tales together in their sharing of a macabre atmosphere. The stand-out segment, director Luis Alcoriza sends up the Mexican bourgeoisie society in sparkling Sci-Fi Horror fashion.
Opening the door to a happening party,Alcoriza twirls the camera round the glittering,gossipy chatter filling the house, landing on the door handle.
Walking into the surreal, Alcoriza slyly touches on prudery and homophobia, via the corridor to another dimension containing a naked man who walks up and down,being placed (to quote the dialogue) "In the closet", and tortured by the guests opening/slamming the door to laugh and play games with those they do not deem of being welcomed into their society.
Peeling away from the surreal to the Mexican Revolution, segment directors Ismael Rodriguez and Chano Urueta fire up Gothic Horror with a Western atmosphere, lit in stylish tracking shots of Revolutionaries robbing a train leading to sizzling red dashes criss-crossing on the floor to a murder hidden behind the door.
View on the film:
Planned as the first in a anthology series of movies, but falling at the first hurdle, co-writers/(with Pedro F. Miret and Mario Hernandez) co-directors Luis Alcoriza/ Ismael Rodriguez & Chano Urueta leave out the traditional wraparound story of anthology films, instead linking the tales together in their sharing of a macabre atmosphere. The stand-out segment, director Luis Alcoriza sends up the Mexican bourgeoisie society in sparkling Sci-Fi Horror fashion.
Opening the door to a happening party,Alcoriza twirls the camera round the glittering,gossipy chatter filling the house, landing on the door handle.
Walking into the surreal, Alcoriza slyly touches on prudery and homophobia, via the corridor to another dimension containing a naked man who walks up and down,being placed (to quote the dialogue) "In the closet", and tortured by the guests opening/slamming the door to laugh and play games with those they do not deem of being welcomed into their society.
Peeling away from the surreal to the Mexican Revolution, segment directors Ismael Rodriguez and Chano Urueta fire up Gothic Horror with a Western atmosphere, lit in stylish tracking shots of Revolutionaries robbing a train leading to sizzling red dashes criss-crossing on the floor to a murder hidden behind the door.