Hot Picks
|
|
|
El Grito de la Muerte
The Living Coffin
Scream of Death
Mexico 1959
produced by Alfredo Ripstein hijo, César Santos for Alameda Films
directed by Fernando Méndez
starring Gastón Santos, María Duval, Pedro de Aguillón, Guillermo Álvarez Bianchi, Carlos Ancira, Carolina Barret, Antonio Raxel, Hortensia Santovena, Quintín Bulnes, José Chávez, José Dupeyrón, Eugenia Galindo, Hernán Vera
written by Ramón Obón, music by Gustavo César Carrión
Llorona
review by Mike Haberfelner
|
|
|
|
Available on DVD! To buy, click on link(s) below and help keep this site afloat (commissions earned) |
Always make sure of DVD-compatibility!!!
|
|
|
|
|
Cowboy Gastón (Gastón Santos) and his sidekick Coyote Loco (Pedro de
Aguillón) find abode in a Hacienda that's allegedly haunted by La
Llorona, the Crying Woman (Carolina Barret), the sister of Dona Maria
(Hortensia Santovena), current owner of the Hacienda. Everybody here
believes that La Llorona is real, everybody but Dona Maria's niece Maria
Elena (María Duval) ... but then Dona Maria is killed the La Llorona way,
and Maria Elena is properly creeped out - even more so when Dona Maria
seems to come back from the dead, and her coffin in her sealed up crypt is
found empty. Only Gastón still has his doubts, and then his horse (!)
finds a secret entrance to the crypt. From here it's not long until
Gastón figures out that Dona Maria's own foreman (Guillermo
Álvarez Bianchi) must have been behind everything because he
wanted Dona Maria's land to exploit an as-of-yet secret goldmine. And La
Llorona and back-from-the-dead Dona Maria? They were actually his cronies
dressed in drag. Of course, Gastón sees to it that justice is served at
the end of the day ... A mexican cowboy fighting La
Llorona? I'm afraid to say that this sounds a lot funnier than
this movie actually is. Now it's true that the film was shot on a low
budget and for the rather undiscriminating kiddie crowd, but that's no
excuse for the film's lack of atmosphere, and for giving away its game way
too soon. True, you might still get a giggle or two out of this one in a
nostalgic way, but as a whole, The Living Coffin is just nowhere
nearly as good (or as funny) as it could have been.
|
review © by Mike Haberfelner
|
Feeling lucky? Want to search any of my partnershops yourself for more, better results? (commissions earned) |
The links below will take you just there!!!
|
|
|
Thanks for watching !!!
|
|
|
Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now from Amazon!!! |
|