El vampiro: Presented by Trash-Mex
- Sun, Nov 1
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Fernando Méndez Run Time: 95 min. Release Year: 1957 Language: Spanish
Starring: Abel Salazar, Ariadna Welter, Carmen Montejo, José Luis Jiménez, Mercedes Soler
Trash-Mex is back at The Frida Cinema to present four classic Mexican horror films from the 1950s & ’60s, kicking off with Fernando Méndez’s El vampiro (1957)!
The beautiful, bereaved Marta (Ariadna Welter) travels with Enrique (Salazar) to her ancestral home. There, the mysterious neighbour Duval (German Robles) offers to buy her decrepit hacienda. However, Duval is really Count Karol de Lavud, a vampire whose aim is to drain Marta of her blood in order to revive his entombed brother.
Widely regarded as the film that kickstarted Mexico’s golden age of horror, El vampiro is a landmark of Mexican genre cinema, complete with a villain whose influence would haunt vampire movies for decades. Don’t miss your chance to sink your teeth into this immortal classic!