Satanás de todos los horrores (1974) User Reviews

Usher en Mexico

[BandSAboutMovies · 3/10 · 23 June 2022]

All the Horrors of Satan is the kind of movie title that you only get from Mexico or Italy and God bless them for it, totally Catholic countries that know how to get only the finest in Satanic sleaze directly into your brain. This doesn't go as hard as some Mexitrash, but it is The Fall of the House of Usher as made by director Julián Soler.

Eric Gerard and his sister Isabel have been afflicted with a mysterious disease that impacts them both in different ways, as Eric's senses have become incredibly sensitive and Isabel has become comatose. They're victims of the Gerard curse, as when there is more than one child, they must go insane and die horribly.

This is a really talkative movie, so if your Spanish isn't that great and you dislike subtitles, you should probably find something else. That said, Poe probably never intended for his movie to have black magic rituals and I have to say that this is all the better for it.

Satan, of all the horrors

[osloj · 7/10 · 19 November 2022]

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

*Plot and ending analyzed*

Satan, of all the horrors

The movie has as its inspiration, "The Fall of the House of Usher" by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

A man goes looking for his fiancée who had suddenly disappeared. He manages to track her down to an isolated estate. The horse wagon driver tells him that there is a curse on the house.

He is greeted by an old servant after he knocks upon the door, and pushes himself into the interior of the building when he is denied information.

Demanding to see the fiancée, he alerts her brother, who suffers from extreme sensitivity of the nervous system.

After the men bicker and make a commotion, the fiancée comes down and meets her lover, and they are happy to reunite. But something is not right in the place. There is evil and malaise, and rotting in everything.

There is also the awkward behavior of the woman and her brother, and even the servant is excessively odd. The building is also crumbling and falling apart. The man thinks it is only an earth tremor.

The brother also has books about Satan.

And both men speak about destiny and fate.

The fiancée suffers from somnambulism and nightmares. And her brother doesn't seem to want to let her leave.

We later learn that the servant and the woman's brother, perform an occult ritual in the cellar around an arcane symbol on the floor.

It turns out that they want to become immortal by offering Satan a gift of the man's sister. But she later renounces Satan when he is called. The brother is angered and vows revenge.

The woman's fiancée fights and argues with the brother, and wants to take the woman away, but she too is reluctant.

She is eventually put inside a nailed coffin. And the fiancée attempts to rescue her.

The actors are all very good and the Spanish dialogue is competent. The movie seems like a television play more than a feature length film. But I did not mind at all, I thought it was actually interesting.

They do overuse the special effects music, as it seems like they merely repurposed the sound effects from Mexican horror movies from the 1950s. I detected a Theremin Musical instrument sound and some other all too familiar sound effects.

The ending was actually really good and not expected. For a little movie, it was done adequately.

In Spanish with no subtitles.