Chano Urueta
Santiago Eduardo Urueta Sierra Rodríguez (Mineral de Cusihuiriachi, Chihuahua, Mexico, February 24, 1895-Mexico City, March 23, 1979), better known as Chano Urueta, was a film director, actor and writer who stood out since the first half of the 1930s as one of the most gifted... Read full bio →
El espejo de la bruja
A husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch's mirror to take her revenge.
El barón del terror
In 1661 Mexico, Baron Vitelius is executed for witchcraft. 300 years later, during a comet's return, he resurfaces as a brain-eating monster seeking revenge on the Inquisitors' descendants.
La cabeza viviente
A group of archaeologists break into the tomb of an ancient Aztec general, arousing the warrior's head and sending his undead servant out to take revenge on the careless scientists.
El monstruo resucitado
The first major medical sci/fi movie in Mexico, loosely based on the Frankenstein story but injecting gory surgical motifs into it, laying the foundations of the genres that came to dominate Hispanic Science Fictionin the 60's and 70's, as exemplified by the work of Jesus Franco from 'Gritos en la Noche' (1962) onwards.
La feria de Jalisco
This lighthearted 1 hour and forty minute musical-comedy was written by its Director, Chano Urueta and was first released on May 20, 1948. Its female lead, is a Cuban-born beauty with the stage name of Ninion Seviilla.
El signo de la muerte
Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. The investigation leads the reporters to a museum, whose director is the famous Doctor Gallardo.