Santo and Blue Demon vs. the Monsters
1970 · Mexico · 85m
Obscurity: obscure. watchable legallyEvery monster at once, all of them on a budget of nothing. Delightful.
Exploitation films from Mexico
reelscum catalogues 13 exploitation films credited to Mexico. They were released between 1957 and 1989. The subgenres that appear most often are Luchador (5 films), Euro-gothic (4 films) and Acid & psychedelic (2 films).
The busiest decades in the catalogue are the 1960s (5), 1970s (4) and 1980s (3). Directors with more than one entry include Alejandro Jodorowsky (3).
Entries include Santo and Blue Demon vs. the Monsters (1970), Santo vs. the Martian Invasion (1967) and The Brainiac (1962). Each links to its own page with a verdict, rating axes and where to watch.
Santo vs. the Martian Invasion
1967 · Mexico · 85m
Obscurity: cultMartians in togas demand Earth's surrender. Santo declines.
The Brainiac
1962 · Mexico · 77m
Obscurity: cult. watchable legallyNot a Santo film. A forked-tongue demon eating brains with a spoon.
The Curse of the Crying Woman
1963 · Mexico · 74m
Obscurity: cult. watchable legallyThe Mexican gothic at its cobwebbed peak, Universal horror with the fog cranked up.
Santo vs. the Vampire Women
1962 · Mexico · 90m
Obscurity: cult. watchable legallyThe best-shot Santo film. He wrestles twice for no reason at all.
Conquest
1983 · Spain/Italy · 90m
Obscurity: cult. watchable legallyFulci does Conan through so much fog you can barely see the gore. Somehow that helps.
El Vampiro
1957 · Mexico · 95m
Obscurity: cultMexico's caped vampire, fanged on screen a year before Hammer got there.
Night of the Bloody Apes
1969 · Mexico · 81m
Obscurity: cult. watchable legally. banned somewhereMexican horror at the gore end: a gorilla-heart transplant, real surgery footage, and a masked lady wrestler.
Nightmare City
1980 · Italy/Spain · 88m
Obscurity: cult. watchable legally. banned somewhereZombies that run and use guns, decades early. Incompetent in enjoyable ways.
Alucarda
1977 · Mexico · 85m
Obscurity: cult. watchable legallyThe most hysterical nunsploitation film ever made. A convent, two possessed girls, and constant screaming.
Santa Sangre
1989 · Mexico · 119m
Obscurity: known. watchable legallyJodorowsky's late masterpiece. A circus, a cult, an armless mother, and her son's hands.
El Topo
1970 · Mexico · 125m
Obscurity: known. watchable legallyJodorowsky's mystical, violent acid western. It essentially invented the midnight movie.
The Holy Mountain
1973 · Mexico · 114m
Obscurity: canon. watchable legallyJodorowsky's spiritual epic. Every frame is a blasphemous tableau, and it is dead serious.