Museo del horror

Museo del horror
Directed by	Rafael Baledón
Produced by	Heberto Dávila Guajardo; Jesús Sotomayor Martínez
Screenplay by	José María Fernández Unsáin
Story by	José María Fernández Unsáin
Starring	Julio Alemán; Patricia Conde; Joaquín Cordero; Olivia Michel; Carlos López Moctezuma; David Reynoso; Emma Roldán; Sonia Infante; Armando Soto La Marina; Julián de Meriche; Arturo Castro
Music by	Sergio Guerrero
Cinematography	Raúl Martínez Solares
Edited by	Carlos Savage
Production; company	Producciones Sotomayor
Release date	21 May 1964 (Mexico);
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish

Museo del horror (in English, "Museum of Horror") is a 1964 Mexican mystery thriller horror black-and-white film directed by Rafael Baledón and starring Julio Alemán, Patricia Conde and Joaquín Cordero.

Plot

Many women disappear under mysterious circumstances, generating a climate of terror and paranoia in the entire population of a town. All the clues point to the same museum.

Cast

Julio Alemán as Dr. Raúl
Patricia Conde as Marta
Joaquín Cordero as Luis
Olivia Michel as Norma Ramos
Carlos López Moctezuma as Professor Abramov
David Reynoso as Police Chief
Emma Roldán as Doña Leonor
Sonia Infante as Sonia
Armando Soto La Marina as Lencho (as Arturo Soto la Marina "Chicote")
Julián de Meriche as Police Detective
Arturo Castro as Gendarme (as Arturo Castro "Bigotón")
Carlos León as Police Detective
Guillermo Bravo Sosa as Watchman (uncredited)
José Dupeyrón as Grave Robber (uncredited)
Jesús Gómez as Policeman (uncredited)
Leonor Gómez as Maid (uncredited)
Vicente Lara as Grave Robber (uncredited)
José Pardavé as Doctor (uncredited)

Production

The film was influenced by House of Wax.[1][2] It features stock footage from the 1961 Italian sword-and-sandal film Hercules in the Haunted World.[3]

Reception

Vicente Muñoz Álvarez in Cult Movies 2. Películas para la penumbra said of the film, "Naive in its approach, hasty in its development and clumsy in its outcome, Museo del horror, however, perfectly transmits the spirit of the best pulp literature and B series cinema of the time."[2]

References

Cotter, Robert Michael (2005). The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography. McFarland & Company. p. 183. ISBN 0-7864-2022-7.
Muñoz Álvarez, Vicente (2018). Cult Movies 2. Películas para la penumbra (in Spanish). Literaturas Com Libros. p. 29. ISBN 978-84-949169-5-3.
Pohle Jr., Robert W.; Hart, Douglas C.; Baldwin, Rita Pohle (2017). The Christopher Lee Film Encyclopedia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 109. ISBN 9780810892705.

External links

Museo del horror on IMDb

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[1] Cotter, Robert Michael (2005). The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography. McFarland & Company. p. 183. ISBN 0-7864-2022-7.

[Muñoz-2] Muñoz Álvarez, Vicente (2018). Cult Movies 2. Películas para la penumbra (in Spanish). Literaturas Com Libros. p. 29. ISBN 978-84-949169-5-3.

[3] Pohle Jr., Robert W.; Hart, Douglas C.; Baldwin, Rita Pohle (2017). The Christopher Lee Film Encyclopedia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 109. ISBN 9780810892705.