WATCHcultHuesera: The Bone Woman
2022 · Mexico/Peru · 93m
Mexican, and the best pregnancy horror since Rosemary's Baby. The joint-cracking sound design is the thing.
13 films
Mexican horror films
13 horror films with Mexico as a country of origin are catalogued in the ledger, from 1969 to 2022. The busiest decades are 2010s (5), 2000s (2) and 1990s (2). The most common subgenres here are body horror (4), gothic (4), haunted house (3) and psychological (3). The best-documented entries are Crimson Peak (2015), The Orphanage (2007) and The Devil's Backbone (2001). Of these, 1 were banned, refused or seized somewhere.
The films
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WATCHcultTigers Are Not Afraid
2017 · Mexico · 83m
Children orphaned by the Mexican drug war, three wishes, and the dead following them through the streets.
WATCHcultWe Are What We Are
2010 · Mexico · 90m
A Mexico City family loses its father and has to work out who now does the hunting.
WATCHcultNight of the Bloody Apes
1969 · Mexico · 81m
A luchadora, a heart transplant from a gorilla, and real open-heart surgery footage spliced in.
WATCHcultAlucarda
1977 · Mexico · 85m
Mexican nunsploitation with an actual argument, and everybody in it screams for eighty minutes.
WATCHcultThe Untamed
2016 · Mexico · 100m
A Mexican film in which a creature from a crashed meteorite provides pleasure and death in equal measure.
WATCHknownRavenous
1999 · UK/USA · 100m
A Sierra Nevada fort in 1847, cannibalism as manifest destiny, and a score unlike any other.
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WATCHknownCronos
1993 · Mexico · 94m
Del Toro's first film, and the vampire is a grandfather trying to stay with his granddaughter.
WATCHknownSanta Sangre
1989 · Mexico · 119m
Jodorowsky's most coherent film, which is a comparative statement. A circus, an armless mother and a son who lends her his hands.
WATCHknownSleep Tight
2011 · Spain/Mexico · 102m
The concierge of a Barcelona apartment block cannot bear that a tenant is happy, so he makes sure she is not.
WATCHknownThe Devil's Backbone
2001 · Spain/Mexico · 106m
Del Toro's other Spanish Civil War film, and he has called it the companion to Pan's Labyrinth.
WATCHcanonThe Orphanage
2007 · Spain/Mexico · 101m
Produced by del Toro, and it is a film about a mother rather than a house.
WATCHcanonCrimson Peak
2015 · USA/Canada · 119m
Del Toro doing full gothic romance. The house is the best thing in it and it is sinking.
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