Top Mexican Horror
by jluis1984 | created - 11 Apr 2019 | updated - 4 months ago | PublicFavorite Mexican horror films
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1. The Black Pit of Dr. M (1959)
Approved | 71 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Gastón Santos, Rafael Bertrand, Mapita Cortés, Carlos Ancira
Votes: 739
2. El hombre sin rostro (1950)
91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Carmen Molina, Miguel Ángel Ferriz, Queta Lavat
Votes: 198
3. Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (1960)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after fifteen years of hellish marriage.
Director: Rogelio A. González | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Amparo Rivelles, Elda Peralta, Guillermo Orea
Votes: 2,117
4. Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968)
TV-14 | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Girls that were punished to sat at a boarding school during Spring Break have no idea the school is haunted by the restless spirit of a former student seeking revenge.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Marga López, Maricruz Olivier, Alicia Bonet, Norma Lazareno
Votes: 2,023
5. Santa Sangre (1989)
NC-17 | 123 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Thelma Tixou
Votes: 23,338
6. The Book of Stone (1969)
99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A governess Julia comes to work in a bourgeois family that live in an afforested property that they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of little girl named Silvia, whose unusual ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Marga López, Joaquín Cordero, Norma Lazareno, Aldo Monti
Votes: 1,244
7. Pedro Páramo (1967)
TV-PG | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Highly symbolic and allegorical, this drama takes as its basis a son's search for his father in the chaotic times of the Mexican Revolution in the early 1900s. Stereotypical (or archetypal)... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Velo | Stars: John Gavin, Ignacio López Tarso, Pilar Pellicer, Julissa
Votes: 369
8. Poison for the Fairies (1986)
90 min | Fantasy, Horror
A 10 year old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Ana Patricia Rojo, Elsa María Gutiérrez, Leonor Llausás, Carmen Stein
Votes: 2,564
9. El vampiro (1957)
95 min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
A pretty young Mexican girl returns to her hometown to make funeral arrangements for her beloved aunt, who has just died. Soon she begins to hear disturbing stories about the town being ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter, Carmen Montejo, José Luis Jiménez
Votes: 1,013
10. Darker Than Night (1975)
102 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Four beautiful women move to an old house, inherited by the aunt of one of them, and witness strange things.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Claudia Islas, Susana Dosamantes, Lucía Méndez, Helena Rojo
Votes: 1,463
11. Cronos (1992)
R | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel
Votes: 33,136 | Gross: $0.62M
12. Alucarda (1977)
R | 78 min | Horror
After the death of her parents, a young girl arrives at a convent and brings a sinister presence with her. Is it her enigmatic imaginary friend, Alucarda, who is to blame? Or is there a satanic force at work?
Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Claudio Brook, David Silva, Tina Romero, Susana Kamini
Votes: 4,094
13. The Devil's Backbone (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve
Votes: 71,025 | Gross: $0.75M
14. The Witch's Mirror (1960)
Approved | 76 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch's mirror to take her revenge.
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Rosita Arenas, Armando Calvo, Isabela Corona, Dina de Marco
Votes: 960
15. The Curse of the Crying Woman (1963)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After fifteen years of being away, a woman returns with her husband to her aunt's hacienda in the Mexican countryside, without realizing that her relative is a sorceress who wants to use her to bring an evil witch back to life.
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Rosita Arenas, Abel Salazar, Rita Macedo, Carlos López Moctezuma
Votes: 784
16. Vagabundo en la lluvia (1968)
87 min | Drama, Thriller, Horror
Two women from different social spheres but with similar interests decide to spend a weekend in the country. The unexpected arrival or a vagrant turns the peaceful vacation into a nightmare of horror and human passion.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Rodolfo de Anda, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Christa Linder, Norma Lazareno
Votes: 111
17. Terror and Black Lace (1986)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Isabel Martinez (Maribel Guardia) is a naive stay-at-home wife, who constantly is being mistreated by her abusive husband, what they do not know is their quiet and polite neighbor is actually a crazed sex maniac.
Director: Luis Alcoriza | Stars: Gonzalo Vega, Maribel Guardia, Claudio Obregón, Jaime Moreno
Votes: 195
18. The Scapular (1968)
85 min | 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.
Director: Servando González | Stars: Enrique Lizalde, Enrique Aguilar, Carlos Cardán, Federico Falcón
Votes: 363
19. El fantasma del convento (1934)
85 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
Alfonso (Del Campo), Eduardo (Villatoro) and Eduardo's wife Cristina (Ruel) get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. There, the three... See full summary »
Director: Fernando de Fuentes | Stars: Marta Roel, Enrique del Campo, Carlos Villatoro, Paco Martínez
Votes: 443
20. La tía Alejandra (1980)
98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she's bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a witch, and takes revenge.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Diana Bracho, Isabela Corona, Manuel Ojeda, María Rebeca
Votes: 451
21. Two Monks (1934)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When the Monk Javier acts violently in a gothic monastery, the Prior asks the Monk Juan to calm him down since he believes that Javier is possessed by demons. When Juan comes to Javier's ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Víctor Urruchúa, Carlos Villatoro, Magda Haller, Beltrán de Heredia
Votes: 716
22. El hombre y el monstruo (1959)
78 min | Horror
A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster.
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Enrique Rambal, Abel Salazar, Martha Roth, Ofelia Guilmáin
Votes: 322
23. Every Madman to His Specialty (1939)
Approved | 123 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A scared horror writer is sent to what he believes is a sanatorium to treat him for his fears, but it turns out to be a haunted castle where he becomes embroiled in a rich family's internal battles for a coveted inheritance.
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Enrique Herrera, Joaquín Pardavé, Gloria Marín, Antonio R. Frausto
Votes: 83
24. Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon (1973)
R | 82 min | Horror
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, then put into action their own ideas of how the place should be run.
Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Claudio Brook, Arthur Hansel, Ellen Sherman, Martin LaSalle
Votes: 1,304
25. Retorno a la juventud (1954)
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An old professor in love with one of his students is rejected by her because of his advanced age. He then sells his soul in return for youth and a chance at love, but the things don't go as he planned.
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Enrique Rambal, Rosario Granados, Carlos López Moctezuma, Andrés Soler
Votes: 57
26. Santo in the Wax Museum (1963)
92 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an ... See full summary »
Directors: Alfonso Corona Blake, Manuel San Fernando | Stars: Santo, Claudio Brook, Norma Mora, Rubén Rojo
Votes: 351
27. El extraño hijo del Sheriff (1986)
93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Set in the old west, the sheriff's wife gives birth to conjoined twins, she dies during labor and the ashamed sheriff decides to hide his children, years later he force the town doctor to ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Durán Rojas | Stars: Mario Almada, Eric del Castillo, Rosa Gloria Chagoyán, Alfredo Gutiérrez
Votes: 118
28. Satanico Pandemonium (1975)
Not Rated | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young nun is tempted by visions of forbidden sexual fantasies to cross over to Satan.
Director: Gilberto Martínez Solares | Stars: Enrique Rocha, Cecilia Pezet, Delia Magaña, Clemencia Colin
Votes: 1,523
29. Museo del horror (1964)
85 min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Young women are being abducted by a masked killer. Graverobbers and poison darts also feature as our heroine discovers which of the men in her life is the psycho.
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Julio Alemán, Patricia Conde, Joaquín Cordero, Olivia Michel
Votes: 96
30. La Llorona (1960)
75 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Felipe and Margarita get married and have a boy named Jorgito. Her uncle Gerardo tell them about a curse that affects the first born boy in the family.
Director: René Cardona | Stars: María Elena Marqués, Eduardo Fajardo, Luz María Aguilar, Carlos López Moctezuma
Votes: 147
31. The Ship of Monsters (1960)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror
Two extraterrestrial women are sent on a mission by the regent of Venus to search for a male of another planet.
Director: Rogelio A. González | Stars: Eulalio González, Ana Bertha Lepe, Lorena Velázquez, Consuelo Frank
Votes: 460
32. La puerta y la mujer del carnicero (1969)
87 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A movie divided in two segments, the first "la Puerta" (the Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a menacing human ... See full summary »
Directors: Luis Alcoriza, Ismael Rodríguez, Chano Urueta | Stars: Ana Luisa Peluffo, Carlos Piñar, Armando Silvestre, Beatriz Baz
Votes: 137
33. All of them Witches (1996)
PG | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A woman sees her best friend murdered before her eyes, and thus becomes very traumatised. Her husband tells her to stay at home, where she discovers a little gris-gris bag. She opens the ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Gruener | Stars: Susana Zabaleta, Alejandro Tommasi, Ricardo Blume, Delia Casanova
Votes: 306
34. Santo vs. the Vampire Women (1962)
Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Horror
A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnaping her and marrying her to the devil.
Director: Alfonso Corona Blake | Stars: Santo, Lorena Velázquez, María Duval, Jaime Fernández
Votes: 1,498
35. Grave Robbers (1989)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Teenagers accidentally resurrect a satanic killer who targets the local police captain's daughter to birth the antichrist.
Director: Rubén Galindo Jr. | Stars: Fernando Almada, Edna Bolkan, Erika Buenfil, Ernesto Laguardia
Votes: 1,054
36. 100 Cries of Terror (1965)
100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A husband and his lover hatch a plan to murder his wife, and a woman is buried alive in a mausoleum.
Director: Ramón Obón | Stars: Ariadne Welter, Joaquín Cordero, Ofelia Montesco, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos
Votes: 130
37. El hombre que logró ser invisible (1958)
96 min | Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror
A scientist discovers a formula that makes him invisible.
Director: Alfredo B. Crevenna | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Raúl Meraz, Augusto Benedico
Votes: 109
38. La llorona (1933)
73 min | Horror, Mystery
In modern day Mexico, a man on the street is supernaturally killed after hearing the eerie sound of a wailing woman. We then arrive at the manor of an upper class family, who are ... See full summary »
Director: Ramón Peón | Stars: Ramón Pereda, Virginia Zurí, Carlos Orellana, Adriana Lamar
Votes: 343
39. El camino de los espantos (1967)
85 min | Comedy, Horror, Fantasy
A group of people, including Capulina and Viruta, head towards the city by train. A heavy storm interrupts their journey and now they must take a haunted path to reach they city. (English Subtitled)
Director: Gilberto Martínez Solares | Stars: Marco Antonio Campos, Gaspar Henaine, Elsa Cárdenas, Salome
Votes: 68
40. The Vampire's Coffin (1958)
80 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Graverobbers stumble upon the tomb of a vampire, who turns them into zombies to do his bidding, which is to stalk and capture beautiful women.
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter, Germán Robles, Yerye Beirute
Votes: 638
41. Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022)
97 min | Drama, Horror
Valeria has long dreamed about becoming a mother. After learning that she's pregnant, she expects to feel happy, yet something's off.
Director: Michelle Garza Cervera | Stars: Natalia Solián, Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Batalla, Mercedes Hernández
Votes: 5,729
42. The Bloody Vampire (1962)
110 min | Horror
Count Cagliostro, whose family has tried for generations to rid the world of vampires, instructs his daughter and her fiance to protect several valuable documents.
Director: Miguel Morayta | Stars: Begoña Palacios, Erna Martha Bauman, Raúl Farell, Bertha Moss
Votes: 265
43. The Body Snatcher (1957)
80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A wrestler and a detective team up to stop a mad scientist who is kidnapping athletes and replacing their brains with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer.
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Columba Domínguez, Crox Alvarado, Wolf Ruvinskis, Carlos Riquelme
Votes: 218
44. La mujer sin cabeza (1944)
77 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Fu Man Chu must find a murderer, the only clue he has is a series of wax heads that have appeared.
Director: René Cardona | Stars: David T. Bamberg, Manuel Medel, Paco Fuentes, Ángel T. Sala
Votes: 20
45. The Invasion of the Vampires (1963)
92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A doctor and his assistant hunt down a vampire named Count Frankenhausen, who is terrorizing the populace.
Director: Miguel Morayta | Stars: Erna Martha Bauman, Rafael del Río, Tito Junco, Fernando Soto
Votes: 235
46. The Hell of Frankenstein (1960)
103 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An assassin uses the remote-controlled monster created by a mad scientist to kill his enemies.
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Armando Calvo, Rosa de Castilla, Irma Dorantes, Andrés Soler
Votes: 101
47. Hay muertos que no hacen ruido (1946)
Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Director: Humberto Gómez Landero | Stars: Germán Valdés, Marcelo Chávez, Amanda del Llano, Tony Díaz
Votes: 53
48. Cry of the Bewitched (1957)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
Cuba, 1850. On a sugar-cane plantation, the master and his wife are happy: they are expecting a child, their slaves are quiet. But one night, as the full moon was rising, the sound of the ... See full summary »
Director: Alfredo B. Crevenna | Stars: Ninón Sevilla, Ramón Gay, Rosa Elena Durgel, Fedora Capdevila
Votes: 229
49. El Monstruo Resucitado (1953)
TV-14 | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The first major medical sci/fi movie in Mexico, loosely based on the Frankenstein story but injecting gory surgical motifs into it, laying the foundations of the genres that came to ... See full summary »
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Miroslava, Carlos Navarro, José María Linares-Rivas, Fernando Wagner
Votes: 144
50. La herencia de la Llorona (1947)
81 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A young man returns to the family homestead after having been away for a few years. He returns from abroad accompanied by a mysterious.
Director: Mauricio Magdaleno | Stars: Paquita de Ronda, Juan José Martínez Casado, Tito Novaro, Agustín Isunza
Votes: 38
51. El asesino del metro (1991)
90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Director: José Luis Urquieta | Stars: Jorge Luke, Jorge Reynoso, Lina Santos, Fernando Casanova
Votes: 13
52. Masacre en Teques (2023)
105 min | Horror
Director: Rodrigo Hernández Cruz | Stars: Francisco de la Reguera, Ramón Medína, José Carlos Femat, Florencia Ríos
Votes: 16
53. El signo de la muerte (1939)
90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The story of a murder inspired by an ancient Aztec ritual in honor of Quetzalcoatl by a lost codes.
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Cantinflas, Manuel Medel, Carlos Orellana, Elena D'Orgaz
Votes: 146
54. Muñecos infernales (1961)
Approved | 81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.
Director: Benito Alazraki | Stars: Elvira Quintana, Ramón Gay, Roberto G. Rivera, Quintín Bulnes
Votes: 363
55. Barbarous Mexico (2014)
Not Rated | 114 min | Horror
Eight Mexican directors unite to bring tales of the most brutally terrifying Mexican traditions and legends to vividly shocking life.
Directors: Isaac Ezban, Laurette Flores Bornn, Jorge Michel Grau, Ulises Guzman, Edgar Nito, Lex Ortega, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Aaron Soto | Stars: Guillermo Villegas, Marco Zapata, Antonio Monroi, Fermín Ramírez
Votes: 1,042
56. KM 31: Kilómetro 31 (2006)
R | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Following a horrible car accident on a wooded road near Mexico City, Agata goes into a coma. Her twin sister Catalina must try to solve the mystery of her sister's accident next to the Km. 31 marker and discovers a terrifying local legend.
Director: Rigoberto Castañeda | Stars: Iliana Fox, Adrià Collado, Raúl Méndez, Luisa Huertas
Votes: 3,577
57. The Living Coffin (1959)
72 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A cowboy and his sidekick meet a ranching family that is haunted by spirits and vampires.
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Gastón Santos, María Duval, Pedro de Aguillón, Hortensia Santoveña
Votes: 217
58. La bruja (1954)
90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Thieves break into a scientist's laboratory to steal a secret formula, and in the process they kill his daughter. Enraged, he develops a formula that will turn an extremely ugly woman into ... See full summary »
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Lilia del Valle, Ramón Gay, Julio Villarreal, Charles Rooner
Votes: 128
59. The Mystery of the Ghastly Face (1935)
88 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A disturbed doctor is obsessed with finding the cure for a strange disease and experimenting with his patients, who are slowly dying of their medical failures. Desperate, he embarks with ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Carlos Villarías, Beatriz Ramos, Natalia Ortiz, Manuel Noriega
Votes: 61
60. Cemetery of Terror (1985)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
On Halloween, a group of medical students steal the corpse a serial killer from a morgue and raise him from the dead, inadvertently putting themselves and a group of young neighborhood children in danger.
Director: Rubén Galindo Jr. | Stars: Hugo Stiglitz, Usi Velasco, Erika Buenfil, Edna Bolkan
Votes: 1,364
61. Dr. Satán y la magia negra (1968)
TV-PG | 97 min | Horror
In the hell, the King demon orders Dr. Satan to return to earth to destroy Yei Lin, a powerful Wizard of black magic, and steal the formula that transforms all metals into gold in order to become the master of the world.
Director: Rogelio A. González | Stars: Joaquín Cordero, Sonia Furió, Noé Murayama, Aurora Clavel
Votes: 64
62. Ladronas de Almas (2015)
88 min | Horror
During the battle between insurgents and the royalist Spanish army during the Mexican civil war, some outlaws seek treasure within a families compound only to find horrors they could never have imagined.
Director: Juan Antonio de la Riva | Stars: Sofía Sisniega, Natasha Dupeyrón, Ana Sofía Durán, Ricardo Dalmacci
Votes: 298
63. Santo vs. Frankenstein's Daughter (1972)
TV-14 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A mad female scientist needs Santo's blood for a youth serum; and she has Frankenstein's reliable old monster to help her get it.
Director: Miguel M. Delgado | Stars: Santo, Gina Romand, Anel, Roberto Cañedo
Votes: 277
64. El espectro de la novia (1943)
91 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Director: René Cardona | Stars: Julio Ahuet, David T. Bamberg, Narciso Busquets, Mimí Derba
65. El jinete sin cabeza (1957)
91 min | Horror, Western, Mystery
A mysterious horseman has arrived in a town, the local people talk about local legends of a gunman come from hell. The gangs of criminals are terrified because they know that confronting him is going to certain death.
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Luis Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Jaime Fernández, Pascual García Peña
Votes: 57
66. The Empire of Dracula (1967)
85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In this partial remake of "Dracula, Prince of Darkness," a handsome vampire named Draculstein is resurrected by his manservant, Igor, so that Draculstein may avenge himself against the son of the man who killed him years earlier.
Director: Federico Curiel | Stars: Lucha Villa, César del Campo, Eric del Castillo, Ethel Carrillo
Votes: 92
67. Belzebuth (2017)
Not Rated | 114 min | Horror
After a personal tragedy, a police detective investigates a school massacre committed by a student - and another massacre. Are the 3 tragedies linked to demon possession?
Director: Emilio Portes | Stars: Tobin Bell, Tate Ellington, Joaquín Cosio, Giovanna Zacarías
Votes: 4,134
68. Madame Death (1969)
85 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist teams with an evil, disfigured woman to kidnap and operate on young women to make her look beautiful again.
Director: Jaime Salvador | Stars: John Carradine, Regina Torné, Elsa Cárdenas, Miguel Ángel Álvarez
Votes: 105
69. El castillo de los monstruos (1958)
89 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A couple are forced to stay in a scary castle, and the castle is filled with monsters!
Director: Julián Soler | Stars: Antonio Espino, Evangelina Elizondo, Carlos Orellana, Guillermo Orea
Votes: 98
70. Sabor a sangre (1980)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Western
Un pueblo entero oculta el secreto de un asesino que anda suelto a quien se dice el tigre. Antonio Aguilar entra al pueblo cantando sobre su caballo bailoteando para entremeterse en el asunto. Hay venganzas y canciones de sobra.
Director: Mario Hernández | Stars: Antonio Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, José Gálvez, Bruno Rey
Votes: 27
71. The Mummies of Guanajuato (1972)
80 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
The Mummy of the legendary wrestler Satan awakes 100 years after his death, as Satan was also a powerful sorcerer who vowed to take revenge over the City of Guanajuato before dying.
Director: Federico Curiel | Stars: Alejandro Moreno, Mil Máscaras, Santo, Elsa Cárdenas
Votes: 322
72. The Similars (2015)
89 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
On the rainy night of October 2, 1968, eight characters waiting on a remote bus station for a bus heading to Mexico City start experiencing a strange phenomenon.
Director: Isaac Ezban | Stars: Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Fernando Becerril, Humberto Busto
Votes: 4,366
73. The Macabre Trunk (1936)
79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery
A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
Director: Miguel Zacarías | Stars: Ramón Pereda, René Cardona, Manuel Noriega, Esther Fernández
Votes: 56
74. La loba (1965)
78 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Professor Fernandez is studying the metamorphosis in living organisms to cure his daughter of a strange disease that occurs in full moon nights.
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Kitty de Hoyos, Joaquín Cordero, Columba Domínguez, José Elías Moreno
Votes: 152
75. Santo vs. Doctor Death (1973)
95 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Mexican Wrestler "El Santo" works with Interpol to stop a clever gang of art thieves in Madrid, Spain, lead by the genius Dr. Death.
Director: Rafael Romero Marchent | Stars: Santo, Carlos Romero Marchent, Helga Liné, Jorge Rigaud
Votes: 205
76. Chabelo and Pepito vs. The Monsters (1973)
90 min | Family, Horror, Comedy
While a Boy Scout camp, friends Chabelo & Pepito try to found out the secret behind a Monster Castle.
Director: José Estrada | Stars: Javier López, Martín Ramos Arévalo, Silvia Pasquel, Pedro Regueiro
Votes: 222
77. 1974: La posesión de Altair (2016)
82 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A newlywed couple disappeared in 1974, their 8mm tapes reveal one of the most horrifying events in Mexican history.
Director: Victor Dryere | Stars: Diana Bovio, Rolando Breme, Guillermo Callahan, Blanca Alarcón
Votes: 647
78. The Vengeance of the Vampire Women (1970)
85 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Doctor Igor Brancov brings back to life a group of vampire women who swear revenge on Santo as he is the descendant of the man who defeated them back in the 19th century,
Director: Federico Curiel | Stars: Santo, Norma Lazareno, Gina Romand, Aldo Monti
Votes: 112
79. Tintorera: Killer Shark (1977)
R | 126 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast.
Director: René Cardona Jr. | Stars: Susan George, Hugo Stiglitz, Andrés García, Fiona Lewis
Votes: 1,523
80. Capulina vs. The Mummies (The Terror of Guanajuato) (1973)
95 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A taxi driver winds up working as a butler for a scientist who is trying to revive mummies.
Director: Alfredo Zacarías | Stars: Gaspar Henaine, Jacqueline Voltaire, Freddy Fernández, Enrique Pontón
Votes: 65
81. El caballo del diablo (1975)
88 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Highly convoluted Mexican concoction involving the titular 'Devil's Horse' and a violent son brought back to life, courtesy of the aforementioned Devil who begins straight away to be even ... See full summary »
Director: Federico Curiel | Stars: Jorge Rivero, Narciso Busquets, Juan Miranda, Yolanda Ochoa
Votes: 63
82. La casa del terror (1960)
60 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Casimiro, night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, is even more sleepy than his usual laziness makes him - because his boss, the Professor, is secretly draining blood from him while he ... See full summary »
Director: Gilberto Martínez Solares | Stars: Germán Valdés, Yolanda Varela, Lon Chaney Jr., Yerye Beirute
Votes: 151
83. La casa embrujada (1949)
Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Magician Fu Manchu must find a way out of a supposed haunted house.
Director: Fernando A. Rivero | Stars: David T. Bamberg, Mary Clark, Carlos Martínez Baena, Alejandro Cobo
Votes: 57
84. The Aztec Mummy (1957)
TV-PG | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Almada discovers that his fiancée, Flor, is the reincarnation of an Aztec maiden who was put to death for loving an Aztec warrior, ... See full summary »
Director: Rafael Portillo | Stars: Ramón Gay, Rosita Arenas, Crox Alvarado, Luis Aceves Castañeda
Votes: 337
85. El destazador (1996)
90 min | Crime, Thriller
Director: Christian González | Stars: Jorge Reynoso, Roberto Ballesteros, Guillermo Lagunes, Yirah Aparicio
86. Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975)
R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An American artist with a penchant for drinking blood begins seducing and dispatching residents of a small fishing town in Mexico.
Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Cristina Ferrare, David Young, John Carradine, Helena Rojo
Votes: 775
87. Angel of Light (2001)
100 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A man living in Mexico becomes convinced of his true nature as a fallen angel and fights off the bully's tormenting his friends, drawing a government agent to his situation and forcing them all to escape their clutches.
Director: Leopoldo Laborde | Stars: Roberto Trujillo, José Luis Badillo, Hugo Stiglitz, Arturo Ramírez
Votes: 73
88. Disappear Completely (2022)
106 min | Horror, Thriller
After visiting a crime scene, an ambitious and insensitive tabloid crime photographer, falls victim to a mysterious illness that makes him lose, one by one, his five senses.
Director: Luis Javier Henaine | Stars: Harold Torres, Tete Espinoza, Fermín Martínez, Vicky Araico
Votes: 765
89. Espiritismo (1962)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Satan gives a woman three wishes in this version of the classic tale, "The Monkey's Paw."
Director: Benito Alazraki | Stars: José Luis Jiménez, Nora Veryán, Beatriz Aguirre, Alicia Caro
Votes: 130
90. The Last Death (2011)
R | 104 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Dr. Alexanderson finds an unconscious young man by the doorstep of his cabin. He will try to piece together the mans broken memory without knowing the dangers his family and friends will be... See full summary »
Director: David Ruiz | Stars: Kuno Becker, Álvaro Guerrero, Carlos Bracho, Claudette Maillé
Votes: 413
91. La cabeza viviente (1963)
79 min | Horror
A group of archaeologists break into the tomb of an ancient Aztec general, arousing the warrior's head and sending his undead servant out to take revenge on the careless scientists.
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Mauricio Garcés, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Abel Salazar, Germán Robles
Votes: 144
92. Demon Hunter (1987)
93 min | Horror
In a small rural town, a murdered shaman returns from the grave in the form of a werewolf-like creature to terrorize the community
Director: Gilberto de Anda | Stars: Rafael Sánchez Navarro, Tito Junco, Roxana Chávez, Roberto Montiel
Votes: 80
93. Frankestein el vampiro y compañía (1962)
TV-14 | 76 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Two screwballs get mixed up with monsters, mad scientists and vampires.
Director: Benito Alazraki | Stars: Manuel 'Loco' Valdés, Martha Elena Cervantes, Nora Veryán, Roberto G. Rivera
Votes: 60
94. La calavera negra (1960)
87 min | Adventure, Mystery, Western
The Black Skull (1960). A strange masked man visits a small town and the people get worried.
Director: Joselito Rodríguez | Stars: Luis Aguilar, Dagoberto Rodríguez, Pascual García Peña, José Eduardo Pérez
Votes: 16
95. The Brainiac (1962)
Approved | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears ... See full summary »
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter, David Silva, Germán Robles
Votes: 1,311
96. Km 31-2 (2016)
R | 105 min | Horror
The police officer Martin Ugalde is called to investigate a series of kidnappings in Mexico City of kids between 6 and 9 years old. Immediately, he realizes these abductions have a special link with the case seven years before.
Director: Rigoberto Castañeda | Stars: Carlos Aragón, Mauricio García Lozano, Adrià Collado, Verónica Merchant
Votes: 266
97. Mysteries of Black Magic (1958)
86 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The stage magician Eglé Elohim offers a show that is causing a sensation in an old archaeology professor who comes to see her in the theater, who is also a great specialist in the history of magic, witchcraft and ancient rituals.
Director: Miguel M. Delgado | Stars: Nadia Haro Oliva, Carlos Riquelme, Aldo Monti, Lulú Parga
Votes: 85
98. Satanás de todos los horrores (1974)
73 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A traveler arrives at the Gerard mansion to visit his old friend, Eric Gerard. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Eric and his sister, Isabel, have been afflicted with a mysterious ... See full summary »
Director: Julián Soler | Stars: Enrique Lizalde, Enrique Rocha, Carlos López Moctezuma, Illya Shanell
Votes: 43
99. Evil Eye (2022)
100 min | Horror
Nala, a 13-year-old girl from the city, travels with her family to her grandmother's home in the countryside, to try to find a cure for her little sister's mysterious illness - But she'll soon find her granny is not exactly what she seems.
Director: Isaac Ezban | Stars: Ofelia Medina, Paola Miguel, Samantha Castillo, Arap Bethke
Votes: 1,519
100. The Curse of the Aztec Mummy (1957)
TV-14 | 65 min | Horror
The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - ... See full summary »
Director: Rafael Portillo | Stars: Ramón Gay, Rosita Arenas, Crox Alvarado, Luis Aceves Castañeda
Votes: 412
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