Juan López Moctezuma

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Juan López Moctezuma (1929 – August 2, 1995) was a Mexican film director and actor. He was born in Mexico City in 1929.[1] During his career he directed five films, all in the genres of Gothic horror and suspense: The Mansion of Madness (1972), Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1974), To Kill a Stranger (1983), El Alimento del Miedo (1994), and his most recognized and controversial work, Alucarda (1978), which tells the story of a satanic possession in a Catholic convent. In 1993 he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Mexico City because of Alzheimer's disease. He died on August 2, 1995.

01-01-1932

Birthday

Capricorn

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Total Films

Also known as (male)

Mexico City, Mexico

Place of Birth

01-01-1932

Birthday

Capricorn

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Also Known As (male)

Mexico City, Mexico

Place of Birth

Popular works

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Creative career

actor

6 Works

producer

3 Works

director

15 Works

writer

6 Works

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Alucardos: Portrait of a Vampire

Terror, transsexualism, and an eternal cult film. What is on the mind of horror film director Juan López Moctezuma and his fans, Manolo and Lalo, who are not only obsessed with the Mexican horror film 'Alucarda', but also believe in their hearts that they are its true characters? After finding the director in a psychiatric hospital, they kidnap him to make him remember his gloriously twisted past. An unclassifiable documentary film that uses interviews, stock shots and recreations of a past that may only have existed in the nightmares of its protagonists.

3.8

Year:

2011

The Food of Fear

The story unfolds in an underclass neighborhood of Mexico City, a place where a unique troupe features a circus act, led by Don Ramón (López Moctezuma himself.) He and his wife Petra (Isaura Espinosa) have to take care of the daughter of a neighbor who has been jailed for drug trafficking. Petra decides that the girl (who is only 5 years old) must earn a living, entrusting her several domestic tasks; the little girl, which he nicknamed "Flea" befriends Pepito, who works as a clown on the street. Things get complicated when somone with satanic tendencies arrives to Ramon's house, and the visitor develops an interest on Petra. A fight between the three adults causes that "lil Flea" suffers a fatal accident, so the solution will be to use her meat for the tamales sold by Petra.

5.0

Year:

1994

The Stork's Mistake

India María raises a kidnapped newborn and is pursued by criminals who want the boy.

7.5

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1993

To Kill a Stranger

Cristina Carver (Angelica Maria) finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time with her TV-reporter husband (Dean Stockwell) who is visiting a Latin American country run by a military dictator. After a car accident one day, Cristina brings the helpful Col. Kostik (Donald Pleasence) home and then kills him in self-defense when he violently attempts to rape and murder her. Terrified, she covers up her act and hides the body, yet in spite of her husband's efforts to protect her, a local police detective starts to figure out what really happened.

5.1

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1986

Adios, amor...

A young man kidnaps a woman and embarks on an energetic crime spree. The reason for his behavior gradually becomes apparent.

5.0

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1973

Someone Wants to Kill Us!

A woman is sent to Mexico to kill the person who presumptly killed her father.

5.6

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1970