MEXICAN MADNESS

Legendary masked wrestlers, Panther Women, and even Bat Woman; the gothic, the ghastly, and ghoulish bloodsuckers - drink your absolute fill of macabre Mexican movies in the Mexican Madness bundle!

Includes:

• The Panther Women - Gothic horror and lucha libre collide in The Panther Women (Las mujeres panteras), which showcases a host of Mexico’s top female stars, including Elizabeth Campbell, Ariadne Welter, and Yolanda Montes aka Tongolele.

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  BBFC cert: 12
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  EAN: 5060697922479
  

• Enter Santo: The First Adventures of the Silver-Masked Man - Immediately recognisable by his distinctive silver mask, the heroic wrestler known as El Santo (‘The Saint’) was Mexico’s most popular luchador, becoming a folk hero and the star of a hugely popular series of action films. Enter Santo: The First Adventures of the Silver-Masked Man presents the two earliest cinematic excursions of this icon of Mexican popular culture.

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  BBFC cert: 18
  REGION FREE
  EAN: 5060697922493

• La Llorona- An early horror classic drawn from Mexico’s rich tradition of folklore, La Llorona recounts the chilling tale of the ‘wailing woman’ who kills herself and her child before returning to haunt the living.

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  BBFC cert: 12
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  EAN: 5060697923148

• The Bat Woman - Wrestlers, mad doctors, and human-fish hybrids abound in The Bat Woman (La mujer murciélago), a colourful showcase for the talents of Italian Mexican sex symbol Maura Monti.

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  BBFC cert: PG
  REGION FREE
  EAN: 5060697922486

• The Phantom of the Monastery - The Phantom of the Monastery (El fantasma del convento) tells the macabre tale of a troupe of hikers who become lost in a forest and take refuge in a haunted monastery. There, they encounter shape-shifting shadows, ominous sealed doorways, and a cellar crowded with coffins...

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  BBFC cert: PG
  REGION FREE
  EAN: 5060697923155

• The Curse of the Crying Woman - The atmospheric Mexican chiller The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición de la Llorona) fuses the tropes of Gothic horror cinema with Mexican folklore’s most terrifying figure.

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  BBFC cert: 12
  REGION FREE
  EAN: 5060697924602

• The Brainiac - One of the most notorious films to emerge from Mexico’s horror-film boom, The Brainiac (El barón del terror) is a terrifying tale of vengeance across the centuries.

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  BBFC cert: 12
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• Black Pit of Dr. M - Directed by Fernando Méndez (The Vampire), Black Pit of Dr. M is a classic of Mexican macabre cinema, showcasing its trademark beautiful photography and eerie production design.

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  BBFC cert: 12
  REGION FREE
  EAN: 5060697924572

• The Witch’s Mirror - The Witch’s Mirror (El espejo de la bruja) is a beautiful, atmospheric, and uniquely Mexican take on the Gothic horror film.

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  BBFC cert: 15
  REGION FREE
  EAN: 5060697924589

• Santo vs. the Riders of Terror - El Santo, the Silver-Masked Man, rides into the Wild West in Santo vs. the Riders of Terror (Santo contra los jinetes del terror), a unique blend of gunplay and lucha libre action.

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  BBFC cert: 18
  REGION FREE
  EAN: 5060697922509

• El Vampiro: Two Bloodsucking Tales From Mexico - El Vampiro: Two Bloodsucking Tales from Mexico brings together a pair of atmospheric and terrifying classics of Mexican Gothic, directed by Fernando Méndez (Black Pit of Dr. M), and starring Ariadne Welter (The Panther Women), Abel Salazar (The Curse of the Crying Woman), and, in a star-making turn, Germán Robles (The Brainiac).

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  BBFC cert: PG
  REGION FREE
  EAN: 5060697924619

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