Infernal Dolls

(Muñecos infernales)
Benito Alazraki | Fiction, Thriller, Science Fiction, Classic

1961 | 85 minutes | Mexico

In this remastered Mexican classic, four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple.

Synopsis

REMASTERED!

Stealing religious artifacts for private collections is never a good idea. When perpetrators of such sacrilege start dying under mysterious circumstances, a scholar and a medical doctor trying to unravel this enigma come face to face with Zandor, a powerful voodoo warlock and his band of harrowing doll-men assassins. While politics and cultural appropriation might be muddled in this creepy tale, in all fairness, Zandor’s revenge has a very solid point.

This film is part of The Permanencia Voluntaria Archives, whose main objective is to rescue, preserve, and restore the popular cinema of Mexico's cinematographic history.

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Main credits

Alazraki, Benito (film director)
Calderón Stell, Guillermo (film producer)
Quintana, Elvira (actor)
Gay, Ramón (actor)
Rivera, Roberto G. (actor)

Other credits

Cinematography, Enrique Wallace; editing, Alfredo Rosas Priego; music, Antonio Díaz Conde.


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Festivals

Academy Film Museum; Mexico Maleficarum

DIRECTOR: Benito Alazraki

NATIONALITY: Mexico

YEAR: 1961

GENRE: Fiction, Thriller, Science Fiction, Classic

LANGUAGE: Spanish

COLOR / B&W: Black and white

GRADE LEVEL: High School, College, Adult

SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE

AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE

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