English (99 min) and Spanish Version [with optional English subtitles] (110 min)!
Original Mexican
Title: EL VAMPIRO SANRIENTO
director: Miguel Morayta (Spanish Version) and Manuel San Fernando (English
Version)
starring: Begona Palacios · Erna Martha Bauman · Raoul
Farell · Betha Moss · Charles Agosti
According to Mexican
lore (at least according to this motion picture), a vampire can survive
the usual wooden stake to the heart. To truly kill a vampire, Clammic
acid (distilled from the black Mandragora flower which grows only in the
ground where someone had been hanged) must be injected into the body.
Eliminating vampires is the job for Dr. Ulysses Albaran, student of Wizard
Cagliostro, and he is off to stop Count Siegried von Frankenhausen and
his vampire horde. Of course, Frankenhausen has other plans and those
include turning the whole world into vampires with him as their ruler.
Generally considered
one of the best Mexican vampire films, this project from Miguel Morayta
also features an amazing soundtrack, creepy cinematography and a shockingly
good opening. He helmed 75 motion pictures from 1944 until his retirement
in 1978. Mr Morayta died from natural causes in June 2013 at age 105.
Charles Agosti (sometimes
Carlos Agosti), who plays evil Count von Frankenhausen here, starred in
150+ Mexican projects including the erotic thrillers SANTO:
THE VAMPIRE AND THE SEX and DR
SATAN AND BLACK MAGIC. Mr Agosti died at age 80, December 2002,
in Los Angeles.
Two
versions of a Mexican film: English Language and Spanish (with optional English subtitles) Prints;
fullscreen format,
uncut (99 and 110 minutes) DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT;
extra include original trailer.
Violence/Sexual
Brutality
Recommended for Mature Audiences
