Mexican Horror Movie

At SantoStreet.com, we take Mexican horror quite seriously. In fact, we started a newsletter in 1994, in order to promote these under-appreciated films. The golden age of Mexican horror cinema began during the mid 1950s, and only lasted 6 or 7 years. There were a handful of horror films produced before that time, but it wasnt until the release of Ladron de Cadaveres, in 1956, that the genre really came into its own.
During these same years, science fiction dominated the American fantasy film market, with titles like Forbidden Planet and Them leading the way. But Mexican audiences were by-and-large a more provincial group, and space travel and atomic radiation were not topics to which they could relate. Most Mexican fantasy dealt with rural legends (such as La Llorona or the Aztec Mummy) or traditional monsters (like vampires, witches, or werewolves).
In the early 1960s, the Lucha Libre film came into vogue. And when Santo contra las Mujeres Vampiro became a huge hit in 1962, Mexican film producers had found a sure-fire recipe for box-office success. They just had to pit a popular masked hero (El Santo or Blue Demon) against a traditional monster (Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy or The Wolfman). The unfortunate side effect of this monster/wrestler marriage was that the traditional non-lucha horror film all but disappeared.
Here is a list of some of the most beloved of Mexican horror titles: Automatas de la Muerte (aka Neutron vs. the Death Robots, 1960), Baron del Terror (aka - The Brainiac, 1961), Casa del Terror (aka - Face of the Screaming Werewolf, 1959), Espejo de la Bruja (aka The Witchs Mirror, 1960), Hombre y el Monstruo (aka - Man and the Monster, 1958), Invasion de los Vampiros (aka Invasion of the Vampires, 1961), Maldicion de la Llorona (aka - Curse of the Crying Woman, 1961), the Momia Azteca series (aka Aztec Mummy, 1957), Mundo de los Vampiros (aka World of the Vampires, 1960), Munecos Infernales (aka Curse of the Doll People, 1960), The Nostradamus series (1959), El Vampiro (aka Vampires Coffin, 1957) and Vampiro Sangriento (aka Bloody Vampire, 1962).
When you check the dates of these films, you will see that every one of them was produced during this 1956 to 1962 time frame. This is our tribute to golden years of south-of-the-border terror.
If youd like to see more Mexican horror film posters and lobby cards or you youd prefer to see Mexican film posters from other genres (westerns, comedy, film noir, musicals, mainstream, etc.), we have it all at SantoStreet.com.

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[pauetta1]

quiero ver el espejo de la bruja

[sierralagunae]

@gusisgr Yes, I saw that picture in my childhood several times in the sunday "matine", that scare me a lot... I recall that the mother of the monster was a witch in a big and smoky pot....

[altobiotero]

Great posters !! Thanx for sharin' buen cine mexicano !!

[AztecaTheater]

Great collection of images from the horror films. We are fans too :)

[1atalia]

La cinta era Mexicana y creo de color. No estoy segura ya que solo tengo ese vago recuerdo en mi memoria. Atalia.

[1atalia]

Yo quisiera saber el nombre de una pelicula que mire hace muchos años atras, y que en mi memoria quedo grabada una escena: a una mujer la hacen bailar con un muñeco, un maniqui mobible y al principio todo iba bien, pero de repente este se aloca y la mujer no se puede soltar, se asusta y empieza a gritar que lo apaguen.

[jimijaket]

@itemgpk Vacaciones Infernales con Tatiana y Pedro Fernandez

[Eszerbet]

@israhell78 Era mexicana. No me pudeo acuerdar el nombre del actor pero salia en muchas peliculas de action. Tiene el pelo negro y bigote. Creo que es pelicula del los 80s o 70s. Esta en color

[dreamaster1976]

@itemgpk de los 70`s a los 90`s te recomiendo : Alucarda, Mas negro que la noche, Hasta el viento tiene miedo (la de 1968 no el "remake") Santa Sangre, la noche de los mil gatos, Cronos, veneno para las hadas,

[israhell78]

@Eszerbet tal vez pueda ayudarte pero necesito mas datos era mexicana ? algun actor mas escens de la pelicula creeme puedo ayudar