Alucarda
Alucarda is a 1977 film from Mexico, directed by Juan López Moctezuma, running 85 minutes. reelscum files it under euro-gothic and nunsploitation.
- Year
- 1977 · 1970s films
- Country
- Mexico
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Director
- Juan López Moctezuma
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (39/100)
- Also known as
- Sisters of Satan · Innocents from Hell · Mark of the Devil 3 · Mark of the Devil Part 3: Innocence from Hell · The Inferno
Defined in the glossary: Euro-gothic, Nunsploitation
The most hysterical nunsploitation film ever made. A convent, two possessed girls, and constant screaming.
A delirious Mexican nunsploitation-horror film in which two orphan girls at a gloomy convent form an intense bond, awaken a demonic force, and become the focus of possession, blood and near-continuous shrieking. The nuns wear blood-soaked bandage-like habits, the crypts drip, and the film operates at a pitch of hysteria few horror films sustain.
Juan Lopez Moctezuma directs it as pure gothic excess, drawing on Carmilla and every convent-horror trope at once. It is exhausting, beautiful and utterly committed to its own fever. One of the wildest films in the whole subgenre.
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