This is a good movie by many reasons. The movie is about witchcraft and a passion thriller around it. It was written by a very known Mexican writer Hugo Argüelles in conjunction with Vega herself. Great actors appear in the movie including Emilio "indio" Fernandez and the always enigmatic Irma Serrano who is already celebrity of its own. This film passed unnoticed in Mexico, where I saw it. In part thanks to the lousy distribution system of that time, which used to privilege the foreign movies. Nowdays there are no longer Mexican movies so the distributors no longer have the concern of programming Mexican movies. I personally believe the movie could had turn into a cult movie. It has a good plot, good intentions, interesting actors and low budget.
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Mexican folk horror
BandSAboutMovies7 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Lovers of the Lord of the Night was directed and written by one of its stars, Isela Vega. She's probably best known for playing Elita in Sam Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. This was the only movie she directed, which is a shame, because this is the kind of movie that movie people should be celebrating, particularly with the reborn love for folk horror as of late. She wrote this movie with Hugo Argüelles.
Venusita (Elena de Haro) has fallen in love with the scion of a wealthy family of merchants named the Venustianos. Her lover's mother and father want better for their son, so they decide to send him to the United States, far away from Venusita.
She turns to black magic, visiting a bruja named Saurina (Irma Serrano, known as La Tigresa de la Canción Ranchera (The Tigress of Ranchera Music) who once starred in a movie opposite El Santo, El Santo y La Tigresa). She casts a spell that brings her young man back to Mexico, but also kills his father.
The horror elements of this film come in with the idea that when you get what you want out of magic, you must always pay it back.
I figure people will pay attention to this once it gets a fancy slipcase and they don't have to hunt it out on Russian darkweb sites.
Venusita (Elena de Haro) has fallen in love with the scion of a wealthy family of merchants named the Venustianos. Her lover's mother and father want better for their son, so they decide to send him to the United States, far away from Venusita.
She turns to black magic, visiting a bruja named Saurina (Irma Serrano, known as La Tigresa de la Canción Ranchera (The Tigress of Ranchera Music) who once starred in a movie opposite El Santo, El Santo y La Tigresa). She casts a spell that brings her young man back to Mexico, but also kills his father.
The horror elements of this film come in with the idea that when you get what you want out of magic, you must always pay it back.
I figure people will pay attention to this once it gets a fancy slipcase and they don't have to hunt it out on Russian darkweb sites.
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