Summaries

After fifteen years of being away, a woman returns with her husband to her aunt's hacienda in the Mexican countryside, without realizing that her relative is a sorceress who wants to use her to bring an evil witch back to life.

They say the old woods are haunted. If anyone dares to go through them at night, they will be killed. At night you can hear the screams as if it is a woman crying. Could the one who is committing these horrible murders be the old woman crying in the night?—amscray

On the eve of the twentieth-fifth birthday of the orphan Amelia, she travels to the house of her aunt Selma in the countryside of Mexico with her husband Jaime. Amelia was raised by her aunt but for fifteen they have not seen each other. However, now Selma has just summoned Amelia to visit her, who is newly-wed with Jaime. When they arrive, the coachman tells them that the house is damned. The weird servant Juan receives Amelia and Jaime since Selma is not at home. Soon Amelia overhears a crying woman but Juan forbids Selma to go to the tower of the house. When Selma arrives, Amelia learns that her uncle Dr. Daniel Jaramillo (Enrique Lucero) died. Further, there is a powerful witch in the basement that was murdered with a stake.Amelia shall remove this stake at midnight of her birthday since she is the last relative of the witch bloodline in order that the witch revives and grant power to Selma.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Details

Keywords
  • murder
  • folk horror
  • old dark house
  • apparition
  • murderous dogs
Genres
  • Thriller
  • Mystery
  • Horror
Release date Aug 14, 1963
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Approved
Countries of origin Mexico
Language Spanish
Filming locations Estudios Churubusco - C. Atletas 2, Country Club Churubusco, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Production companies Cinematográfica ABSA

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 20m
Color Black and White
Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1

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