The Vampire(Movie, 1957)

Name: The Vampire
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: 1957
Duration: T01:35:00
Rating: 3.4

Original title: "El vampiro" (Spanish/ES)

1h 35min | Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: 3.4/5 (with 16 votes)

El vampiro (English: The Vampire) is a 1957 Mexican horror film, produced by Abel Salazar and directed by Fernando Méndez from an original screenplay by Ramon Obon, and starring German Robles as Count Lavud, the vampire, Abel Salazar as Dr. Enrique, and Ariadna Welter as Marta. The film, which took influence from the canon of Universal horror, is seen as the beginning of the Mexican horror boom of the 1960s. A sequel, El ataud del vampiro (English: The Vampire's Coffin) with the same producer (Salazar), director (Méndez), writer (Obon) and three main actors playing the same roles (Robles, Salazar, and Welter) was released in 1958. ()

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About The Vampire

A pretty young Mexican girl returns to her hometown to make funeral arrangements for her beloved aunt, who has just died. Soon she begins to hear disturbing stories about the town being infested by vampires, and she eventually begins to suspect that her remaining aunt and the mysterious next-door neighbor may be involved.

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Additional Information

Production country: Mexico

Made by: Cinematográfica ABSA

Original language: Spanish (ES)

Spoken languages: Spanish (ES)

Translated into 6 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 10/04/1957

Cast: Abel Salazar, Germán Robles, Ariadna Welter, Carmen Montejo, Mercedes Soler

Director: Fernando Méndez

Producer: Abel Salazar, K. Gordon Murray

Film Editor: Jorge Bustos

Director of Photography: Rosalío Solano

Art Director: Gunther Gerzs

Keywords: vampire, village

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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