El vampiro
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El vampiro | |
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Directed by | Fernando Méndez |
Written by | (Story and adaptation) |
Produced by | Abel Salazar |
Starring | Abel Salazar Germán Robles Ariadne Welter Carmen Montejo |
Music by | Gustavo César Carrión |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Mexico |
Language | Spanish |
El vampiro (English: The Vampire) is a 1957 Mexican horror film, produced by Abel Salazar and directed by Fernando Méndez from an original screenplay by , and starring German Robles as Count Lavud, the vampire. The film, which took influence from the canon of Universal horror, is seen as the beginning of the Mexican horror boom of the 1960s.[1]
Plot[]
The film is about Marta, a young woman, who travels to her childhood village, only to find that one of her aunts is dead and another is under the influence of Mr. Duval, who later turns out to be a vampire named Count Karol de Lavud.
Cast[]
- German Robles as Conde (Count) Karol de Lavud
- Ariadne Welter as Marta
- Abel Salazar as Dr. Enrique
- Carmen Montejo as Eloise
- as Ambrosio
- Mercedes Soler
Production[]
It is one of the first movies to show a vampire with elongated canines, a year before Hammer's Horror of Dracula. Although F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (Max Schrek) had elongated incisors; Tod Browning's Dracula (Bela Lugosi) did not show his teeth at all, while for this film Robles was given visible teeth.[1]
See also[]
- Vampire films
References[]
Citations[]
Bibliography[]
- Cotter, Robert Michael "Bob" (2005), The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography, McFarland & Co..
External links[]
- El Vampiro at IMDb
- Tecnológico de Monterrey
- DVD Maniacs
- Revista Cinefania
- DVD Talk
- Vampires on the Screen
- 1957 films
- Spanish-language films
- 1957 horror films
- Mexican films
- Mexican horror thriller films
- Mexican vampire films
- 1950s horror thriller films
- Pre-1960 horror film stubs
- 1950s film stubs
- 1950s Mexican film stubs