dir: Fernando de Fuentes
1934 // 1 hr 25 min // Digital Projection
In 1930, working at night, on the same sets that Tod Browning, Bela Lugosi, et al were using during the day, Mexican actors famously made a Spanish-language version of Dracula. Within a few years, Mexico's burgeoning film industry was turning out gothic horror pictures of its own, and Phantom of the Monastery was one of the first, an eerie, poetic concoction full of Expressionist shadows and haunting images, including a room full of real mummies - mummies that can still be visited today at the Museo de El Carmen, if you happen to be planning a trip to Mexico City.
About Mexican Gothic
For four weeks in September, Orrin Grey and the Stray Cat Film Center team up to bring you some of the strangest, eeriest, and most chilling horror flicks from south of the border. Haunted monasteries, mad doctors, witches, ghosts, mummies, and more await you in four underseen classics of MexicanGothic.
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