The Vampire (1957)
El vampiro
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 infested by vampires, and she eventually begins to suspect that her remaining aunt and the mysterious next-door neighbor may be involved.
- Date of release
- 1957-10-04
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (51)
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Horror
- Director
- Fernando Méndez
- Collection
- El Vampiro Collection
Casting
- Abel Salazar — Dr. Enríquez
- Ariadna Welter — Marta González
- Carmen Montejo — Eloisa
- José Luis Jiménez — Emilio
- Mercedes Soler — María
- Alicia Montoya — María Teresa
- Germán Robles — Count Karol de Lavud / Duval
Interesting facts
El vampiro 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.
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.
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