Juan López Moctezuma
Nacimiento : 1932-01-01, Mexico City, Mexico
Muerte : 1995-08-02
Historia
Juan López Moctezuma (1929 – August 2, 1995) was a Mexican film director and actor. He was born in Mexico City in 1929.[1] During his career he directed five films, all in the genres of Gothic horror and suspense: The Mansion of Madness (1972), Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1974), To Kill a Stranger (1983), El Alimento del Miedo (1994), and his most recognized and controversial work, Alucarda (1978), which tells the story of a satanic possession in a Catholic convent.
In 1993 he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Mexico City because of Alzheimer's disease. He died on August 2, 1995.
Self (Archive footage)
Terror, transsexualism, and an eternal cult film. What is on the mind of horror film director Juan López Moctezuma and his fans, Manolo and Lalo, who are not only obsessed with the Mexican horror film 'Alucarda', but also believe in their hearts that they are its true characters? After finding the director in a psychiatric hospital, they kidnap him to make him remember his gloriously twisted past. An unclassifiable documentary film that uses interviews, stock shots and recreations of a past that may only have existed in the nightmares of its protagonists.
Writer
The story unfolds in an underclass neighborhood of Mexico City, a place where a unique troupe features a circus act, led by Don Ramón (López Moctezuma himself.) He and his wife Petra (Isaura Espinosa) have to take care of the daughter of a neighbor who has been jailed for drug trafficking. Petra decides that the girl (who is only 5 years old) must earn a living, entrusting her several domestic tasks; the little girl, which he nicknamed "Flea" befriends Pepito, who works as a clown on the street. Things get complicated when somone with satanic tendencies arrives to Ramon's house, and the visitor develops an interest on Petra. A fight between the three adults causes that "lil Flea" suffers a fatal accident, so the solution will be to use her meat for the tamales sold by Petra.
Don Ramón
The story unfolds in an underclass neighborhood of Mexico City, a place where a unique troupe features a circus act, led by Don Ramón (López Moctezuma himself.) He and his wife Petra (Isaura Espinosa) have to take care of the daughter of a neighbor who has been jailed for drug trafficking. Petra decides that the girl (who is only 5 years old) must earn a living, entrusting her several domestic tasks; the little girl, which he nicknamed "Flea" befriends Pepito, who works as a clown on the street. Things get complicated when somone with satanic tendencies arrives to Ramon's house, and the visitor develops an interest on Petra. A fight between the three adults causes that "lil Flea" suffers a fatal accident, so the solution will be to use her meat for the tamales sold by Petra.
Director
The story unfolds in an underclass neighborhood of Mexico City, a place where a unique troupe features a circus act, led by Don Ramón (López Moctezuma himself.) He and his wife Petra (Isaura Espinosa) have to take care of the daughter of a neighbor who has been jailed for drug trafficking. Petra decides that the girl (who is only 5 years old) must earn a living, entrusting her several domestic tasks; the little girl, which he nicknamed "Flea" befriends Pepito, who works as a clown on the street. Things get complicated when somone with satanic tendencies arrives to Ramon's house, and the visitor develops an interest on Petra. A fight between the three adults causes that "lil Flea" suffers a fatal accident, so the solution will be to use her meat for the tamales sold by Petra.
Screenplay
Cristina Carver (Angelica Maria) finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time with her TV-reporter husband (Dean Stockwell) who is visiting a Latin American country run by a military dictator. After a car accident one day, Cristina brings the helpful Col. Kostik (Donald Pleasence) home and then kills him in self-defense when he violently attempts to rape and murder her. Terrified, she covers up her act and hides the body, yet in spite of her husband's efforts to protect her, a local police detective starts to figure out what really happened.
Albert Morell
Cristina Carver (Angelica Maria) finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time with her TV-reporter husband (Dean Stockwell) who is visiting a Latin American country run by a military dictator. After a car accident one day, Cristina brings the helpful Col. Kostik (Donald Pleasence) home and then kills him in self-defense when he violently attempts to rape and murder her. Terrified, she covers up her act and hides the body, yet in spite of her husband's efforts to protect her, a local police detective starts to figure out what really happened.
Director
Cristina Carver (Angelica Maria) finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time with her TV-reporter husband (Dean Stockwell) who is visiting a Latin American country run by a military dictator. After a car accident one day, Cristina brings the helpful Col. Kostik (Donald Pleasence) home and then kills him in self-defense when he violently attempts to rape and murder her. Terrified, she covers up her act and hides the body, yet in spite of her husband's efforts to protect her, a local police detective starts to figure out what really happened.
Producer
La historia de Alucarda está influida por el clima malsano y perverso de las obras de Sade. Su protagonista, Justine (nombre, precisamente, de una de las obras más famosas del marqués), vive en un monasterio y recibirá la influencia terrible de la bruja Alucarda.
Story
La historia de Alucarda está influida por el clima malsano y perverso de las obras de Sade. Su protagonista, Justine (nombre, precisamente, de una de las obras más famosas del marqués), vive en un monasterio y recibirá la influencia terrible de la bruja Alucarda.
Director
La historia de Alucarda está influida por el clima malsano y perverso de las obras de Sade. Su protagonista, Justine (nombre, precisamente, de una de las obras más famosas del marqués), vive en un monasterio y recibirá la influencia terrible de la bruja Alucarda.
Writer
La historia de Alucarda está influida por el clima malsano y perverso de las obras de Sade. Su protagonista, Justine (nombre, precisamente, de una de las obras más famosas del marqués), vive en un monasterio y recibirá la influencia terrible de la bruja Alucarda.
Director
Película de terror mexicana sobre una pintora estadounidense llamada Mary (Cristina Ferrare) que vive en México, donde vende sus obras y también mata a personas por su sangre. Resulta que Mary es una vampira pero no la tradicional con colmillos. Como no tiene colmillos, debe apuñalar o cortar las gargantas de sus víctimas, pero pronto tendrá un nuevo hombre (David Young) en su vida, así como un hombre misterioso (John Carradine) de negro que parece estar haciendo el mismo tipo de asesinatos
A young man kidnaps a woman and embarks on an energetic crime spree. The reason for his behavior gradually becomes apparent.
Writer
Basada en "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather" de Edgar Allan Poe. Un periodista francés del Siglo XIX descubre que un asilo ha sido tomado por uno de sus pacientes dementes, que ha permitido que sus compañeros hagan realidad sus fantasías.
Director
Basada en "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather" de Edgar Allan Poe. Un periodista francés del Siglo XIX descubre que un asilo ha sido tomado por uno de sus pacientes dementes, que ha permitido que sus compañeros hagan realidad sus fantasías.
Associate Producer
En un Oeste imaginario, el pistolero Topo se enfrenta a una banda de fetichistas, dirigida por un coronel lascivo, que tiene atemorizada a una congregación franciscana. Singular y provocativa película de culto, mezcla de géneros y movimientos culturales. John Lennon dijo de ella que era una obra maestra.
A woman is sent to Mexico to kill the person who presumptly killed her father.
Producer
La opera prima de Alejandro Jodorowsky es un cuento bizarro de inocencia corrompida, amor sadomasoquista e inalcanzable paraíso. Basada en la obra homónima de Fernando Arrabal, cuenta la historia de una joven pareja en busca de la ciudad encantada de Tar, donde se encuentra el éxtasis espiritual. Fando es impotente y Lis está paralítica.
