Watched: 09/08/2025
Format: Criterion
Viewing: First
Director: Juan Lopez Moctezuma
Now that's how you make a horror movie.
Start with a base of Carmilla, the pre-Dracula vampire story about sapphic vampires (or 1970's The Vampire Lovers), sprinkle in some Dracula, add in some The Exorcist, probably three or four movies I'm not thinking of or aware of, and then a dollop of Carrie for the finale.
A Mexican-produced film, Alucarda (1977) is just batshit from the first scene and then cranks it up to 11. I'm not sure it's in any way scary - any more than a Hammer film ever feels frightening - but it's a crazy spectacle - and never fails to be *interesting*.
