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Edition: Box Set with Book (Limited Edition)
Genre: Horrors
Sub-Genre: Horror
Region Code: Region A,B,C,
Certificate: 15
Label: Powerhouse Films
Actors: Gastón Santos, Mapita Cortés, Carlos Ancira, Carolina Barret, Luis Aragón, Antonio Raxel, Rosita Arenas, Armando Calvo, Isabela Corona, Dina de Marco, Carlos Nieto, Abel Salazar, Germán Robles, Rafael Bertrand, Carlos López Moctezuma, Rita Macedo, René Cardona
Director: Fernando Méndez, Rafael Balédon, Chano Urueta, René Cardona
Number of Discs: 4
Audio Languages: Spanish, 'The Witch's Mirror', 'The Brainiac' and 'The Curse of the Crying Woman': English
Subtitle Languages: English
These four macabre titles from the vaults of one of Mexico's best-known film companies offer uniquely Mexican takes on the ghosts, witches, and monsters familiar to fans of horror cinema and fiction. Fernando Méndez's Black Pit of Dr. M (Misterios de ultratumba) sees a doctor make a pact with his dying colleague in order to learn the secrets of the afterlife. In Chano Urueta's The Witch's Mirror (El espejo de la bruja), a murderer is tormented by the ghost of his dead wife, whilst in Urueta's The Brainiac (El barón del terror), a nobleman executed for necromancy returns in diabolical form to eradicate the lineage of his killers.by sucking out their brains! Finally, in Rafael Baledón's The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición de la Llorona), a young bride visits her aunt's Gothic mansion, where she finds that she is the descendent of one of Mexican folklore's most terrifying figures.<br/>
Special Features: Bonus Footage, Commentary: 'Black Pit of Dr. M': Abraham Castillo Flores (film curator); 'The Witch's Mirror': David Wilt (film historian); 'The Brainiac': Keith J. Rainville (publisher/screenwriter); 'The Curse of the Crying Woman': Morena de Fuego (Latin American horror specialist), Documentaries: Daniel Ripstein on the history of Alameda Films and his grandfather, producer Alfredo Ripstein Jr; 'Memories of a Villain' (2018); Eduardo de la Vega Alfaro (author) on directors Fernando Méndez, Chano Urueta and Rafael Balédon, Image Gallery, Exclusive art cards; 'Mondo Macabro: Mexican Horror Movies' (2002), Trailers
