The films

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Huesera: The Bone Woman

Mexican, and the best pregnancy horror since Rosemary's Baby. The joint-cracking sound design is the thing.

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Tigers Are Not Afraid

Children orphaned by the Mexican drug war, three wishes, and the dead following them through the streets.

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We Are What We Are

A Mexico City family loses its father and has to work out who now does the hunting.

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Night of the Bloody Apes

A luchadora, a heart transplant from a gorilla, and real open-heart surgery footage spliced in.

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Alucarda

Mexican nunsploitation with an actual argument, and everybody in it screams for eighty minutes.

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The Untamed

A Mexican film in which a creature from a crashed meteorite provides pleasure and death in equal measure.

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Ravenous

A Sierra Nevada fort in 1847, cannibalism as manifest destiny, and a score unlike any other.

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Cronos

Del Toro's first film, and the vampire is a grandfather trying to stay with his granddaughter.

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Santa Sangre

Jodorowsky's most coherent film, which is a comparative statement. A circus, an armless mother and a son who lends her his hands.

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Sleep Tight

The concierge of a Barcelona apartment block cannot bear that a tenant is happy, so he makes sure she is not.

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The Devil's Backbone

Del Toro's other Spanish Civil War film, and he has called it the companion to Pan's Labyrinth.

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The Orphanage

Produced by del Toro, and it is a film about a mother rather than a house.

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Crimson Peak

Del Toro doing full gothic romance. The house is the best thing in it and it is sinking.