Favorite Mexican Horror
by Jriff87 | created - 22 Dec 2016 | updated - 11 Jan 2023 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. El vampiro (1957)
95 min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
A pretty young Mexican girl returns to her hometown to make funeral arrangements for her beloved aunt, who has just died. Soon she begins to hear disturbing stories about the town being ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter, Carmen Montejo, José Luis Jiménez
Votes: 1,013
2. Darker Than Night (1975)
102 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Four beautiful women move to an old house, inherited by the aunt of one of them, and witness strange things.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Claudia Islas, Susana Dosamantes, Lucía Méndez, Helena Rojo
Votes: 1,462
3. Poison for the Fairies (1986)
90 min | Fantasy, Horror
A 10 year old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Ana Patricia Rojo, Elsa María Gutiérrez, Leonor Llausás, Carmen Stein
Votes: 2,564
4. The Book of Stone (1969)
99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A governess Julia comes to work in a bourgeois family that live in an afforested property that they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of little girl named Silvia, whose unusual ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Marga López, Joaquín Cordero, Norma Lazareno, Aldo Monti
Votes: 1,244
5. Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968)
TV-14 | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Girls that were punished to sat at a boarding school during Spring Break have no idea the school is haunted by the restless spirit of a former student seeking revenge.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Marga López, Maricruz Olivier, Alicia Bonet, Norma Lazareno
Votes: 2,023
6. Cronos (1992)
R | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel
Votes: 33,134 | Gross: $0.62M
7. All of them Witches (1996)
PG | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A woman sees her best friend murdered before her eyes, and thus becomes very traumatised. Her husband tells her to stay at home, where she discovers a little gris-gris bag. She opens the ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Gruener | Stars: Susana Zabaleta, Alejandro Tommasi, Ricardo Blume, Delia Casanova
Votes: 306
8. The Black Pit of Dr. M (1959)
Approved | 71 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Gastón Santos, Rafael Bertrand, Mapita Cortés, Carlos Ancira
Votes: 739
9. 100 Cries of Terror (1965)
100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A husband and his lover hatch a plan to murder his wife, and a woman is buried alive in a mausoleum.
Director: Ramón Obón | Stars: Ariadne Welter, Joaquín Cordero, Ofelia Montesco, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos
Votes: 130
10. Alucarda (1977)
R | 78 min | Horror
After the death of her parents, a young girl arrives at a convent and brings a sinister presence with her. Is it her enigmatic imaginary friend, Alucarda, who is to blame? Or is there a satanic force at work?
Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Claudio Brook, David Silva, Tina Romero, Susana Kamini
Votes: 4,093
11. El hombre sin rostro (1950)
91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Carmen Molina, Miguel Ángel Ferriz, Queta Lavat
Votes: 198
12. Two Monks (1934)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When the Monk Javier acts violently in a gothic monastery, the Prior asks the Monk Juan to calm him down since he believes that Javier is possessed by demons. When Juan comes to Javier's ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Víctor Urruchúa, Carlos Villatoro, Magda Haller, Beltrán de Heredia
Votes: 716
13. The Body Snatcher (1957)
80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A wrestler and a detective team up to stop a mad scientist who is kidnapping athletes and replacing their brains with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer.
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Columba Domínguez, Crox Alvarado, Wolf Ruvinskis, Carlos Riquelme
Votes: 218
14. Hell's Trap (1989)
Unrated | 90 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Two rivaling groups of friends intend to hunt a bear on a forest, but soon they are stalked by a masked madman Vietnam veteran.
Director: Pedro Galindo III | Stars: Pedro Fernández, Edith González, Toño Mauri, Charly Valentino
Votes: 259
15. Terror and Black Lace (1986)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Isabel Martinez (Maribel Guardia) is a naive stay-at-home wife, who constantly is being mistreated by her abusive husband, what they do not know is their quiet and polite neighbor is actually a crazed sex maniac.
Director: Luis Alcoriza | Stars: Gonzalo Vega, Maribel Guardia, Claudio Obregón, Jaime Moreno
Votes: 195
16. El extraño hijo del Sheriff (1986)
93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Set in the old west, the sheriff's wife gives birth to conjoined twins, she dies during labor and the ashamed sheriff decides to hide his children, years later he force the town doctor to ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Durán Rojas | Stars: Mario Almada, Eric del Castillo, Rosa Gloria Chagoyán, Alfredo Gutiérrez
Votes: 118
17. The Vampire's Coffin (1958)
80 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Graverobbers stumble upon the tomb of a vampire, who turns them into zombies to do his bidding, which is to stalk and capture beautiful women.
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter, Germán Robles, Yerye Beirute
Votes: 638
18. El fantasma del convento (1934)
85 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
Alfonso (Del Campo), Eduardo (Villatoro) and Eduardo's wife Cristina (Ruel) get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. There, the three... See full summary »
Director: Fernando de Fuentes | Stars: Marta Roel, Enrique del Campo, Carlos Villatoro, Paco Martínez
Votes: 442
19. La tía Alejandra (1980)
98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she's bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a witch, and takes revenge.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Diana Bracho, Isabela Corona, Manuel Ojeda, María Rebeca
Votes: 451
20. Satanico Pandemonium (1975)
Not Rated | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young nun is tempted by visions of forbidden sexual fantasies to cross over to Satan.
Director: Gilberto Martínez Solares | Stars: Enrique Rocha, Cecilia Pezet, Delia Magaña, Clemencia Colin
Votes: 1,521
21. Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975)
R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An American artist with a penchant for drinking blood begins seducing and dispatching residents of a small fishing town in Mexico.
Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Cristina Ferrare, David Young, John Carradine, Helena Rojo
Votes: 776
22. Museo del horror (1964)
85 min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Young women are being abducted by a masked killer. Graverobbers and poison darts also feature as our heroine discovers which of the men in her life is the psycho.
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Julio Alemán, Patricia Conde, Joaquín Cordero, Olivia Michel
Votes: 96
23. La loba (1965)
78 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Professor Fernandez is studying the metamorphosis in living organisms to cure his daughter of a strange disease that occurs in full moon nights.
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Kitty de Hoyos, Joaquín Cordero, Columba Domínguez, José Elías Moreno
Votes: 152
24. La puerta y la mujer del carnicero (1969)
87 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A movie divided in two segments, the first "la Puerta" (the Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a menacing human ... See full summary »
Directors: Luis Alcoriza, Ismael Rodríguez, Chano Urueta | Stars: Ana Luisa Peluffo, Carlos Piñar, Armando Silvestre, Beatriz Baz
Votes: 137
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