El vampiro (1957)

19571h 22mdir. Fernando MéndezSpanishMexicohorror filmvampire film

Note: this print runs 82 minutes against a recorded 95 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Abel Salazar, Germán Robles, Ariadne Welter, Carmen Montejo, Mercedes Soler

Directed by Fernando Méndez

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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 Ramon Obon, and starring German Robles as Count Lavud, the vampire, Abel Salazar as Dr. Enrique, and Ariadna Welter as Marta. The film, which took influence from the canon of Universal horror, is seen as the beginning of the Mexican horror boom of the 1960s.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.

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