El escapulario

19681968
1h 25m

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

261

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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.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.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.

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

261

YOUR RATING

Director
- Servando González
Writers
- Jorge Durán Chavez(screen story)
- Rafael García Travesi(adaptation by)
- Servando González(screenplay)
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Alicia Bonet and Enrique Lizalde in El escapulario (1968)

Federico Falcón in El escapulario (1968)

Ofelia Guilmáin in El escapulario (1968)

Enrique Aguilar in El escapulario (1968)

Featured review

8/10

A religious ghost story

Mexico's "La Epoca Del Oro" was noted for blending primitive superstition with baroque religious symbolism (isn't that what santeria is?) and all I can say is, that very Catholic country loved putting the fear of God into the devout.

A ghost story set around the time of the Mexican Revolution, THE SCAPULAR concerns an old woman on her deathbed who tells the priest giving her last rites of the strange and powerful influence a religious medal had on her four sons. It's told mostly in flashback and the fog-bound atmospherics "Golden Age" cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa provides in abundance makes it look like we're observing the otherworldly goings-ons through the mists of time. If using black & white was a deliberate choice for this 1968 flick, it was a stoke of genius. An impressed 8/10 but only because I'm not into organized religion (although I'll grant it's pretty scary).

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