Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar was a Castilian knight and ruler in medieval Spain. Fighting both with Christian and Muslim armies during his lifetime, he earned the Arabic honorific as-Sayyid, which would evolve into El Çid, and the Spanish honorific El Campeador. He was born in Vivar, a village near the city of Burgos.
La Llorona is a vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned in a jealous rage after discovering her husband was unfaithful to her. Whoever hears her crying either suffers misfortune or death and their life becomes unsuccessful in every field.
Horror films in Mexico form part of cinematic arts and culture of Mexico.
Carlos Cores was an Argentine film actor, and film director.
El Internado, also known as El Internado: Laguna Negra is a Spanish teen drama thriller television series produced by Globomedia for the Spanish network Antena 3. The series was originally broadcast in Spain from 24 May 2007 to 13 October 2010. The series began airing on Netflix on 15 July 2015, and it stopped airing on 20 December 2017. Then, the series was reaired on 16 October 2018.
El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Téllez for Televisa in 1988. It is an unusual example of a telenovela which addresses supernatural topics. The telenovela first begins in Zacatecas, New Spain in 1640 and later transitions to Mexico City in 1988, in which a woman accused of witchcraft and burned by the Holy Inquisition, reincarnates into a young girl who seeks to find the reason for her constant nightmare of being burned at the stake. The series stars Lucía Méndez, Jorge Martínez, Alejandro Camacho and Alma Muriel.
La Llorona is a 1960 Mexican film directed by René Cardona. Based on the tale of La Llorona, it tells of a family that is cursed by the evil spirit of Luisa, this story's "weeping woman". The film was filmed on location in Guanajuato, Mexico.
Fernando de Fuentes Carrau was a Mexican film director, considered a pioneer in the film industry worldwide. He is perhaps best known for directing the films El prisionero trece, El compadre Mendoza, and Vámonos con Pancho Villa, all part of his Revolution Trilogy on the Mexican Revolution.
There are extensive and varied beliefs in ghosts in Mexican culture. In Mexico, the beliefs of the Maya, Nahua, Purépecha; and other indigenous groups in a supernatural world has survived and evolved, combined with the Catholic beliefs of the Spanish. The Day of the Dead incorporates pre-Columbian beliefs with Christian elements. Mexican literature and cinema include many stories of ghosts interacting with the living.
The Curse of the Aztec Mummy is a 1957 Mexican horror film directed by Rafael Portillo. It is the second film in the Aztec Mummy series which began with The Aztec Mummy which was released earlier that year.
Vicente Parra Collado was a Spanish actor.
El Dandy is a crime drama television series produced by Teleset for Sony Pictures Television and Televisa. It is based on the film Donnie Brasco directed by Mike Newell in 1997.
La Llorona is a 1933 Mexican supernatural horror film directed by Ramón Peón, written by Fernando de Fuentes and Carlos Noriega Hope, and stars Ramón Pereda, Virginia Zurí, Adriana Lamar and Carlos Orellana. It was the first Mexican horror film with sound.
La ciudad no es para mí is a 1966 Spanish comedy film directed by Pedro Lazaga and based on the play of the same name by Fernando Lázaro Carreter published under the pen name Fernando Ángel Lozano. It stars Paco Martínez Soria as Agustín Valverde, an old widower peasant from the Aragonese village of Calacierva who decides to go to Madrid to live with his son and daughter-in-law.
Legend Quest: The Legend of Chupacabras is a 2016 Mexican animated comedy horror film directed by Alberto Rodríguez. Produced by Ánima Estudios, the film is the fourth installment to the Leyenda film series and its story is inspired by the chupacabras legend.
Two Monks is a 1934 Mexican expressionist melodrama film directed and co-written by Juan Bustillo Oro and starring Víctor Urruchúa and Carlos Villatoro.
Legend Quest is an animated horror-comedy film franchise created by Ricardo Arnaiz and produced by Mexican animation studio Ánima Estudios. It is loosely based on The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame. It consists of seven films, a digital television series, and a mobile game. It centers on Leo San Juan, a heroic preteen boy who can communicate with ghosts and monsters; Theodora, a sassy and quirky preteen ghost girl with a know-it-all personality; Sir Andrés, an amicable but loony old knight; Alebrije, a mild-mannered mythological creature; and Finney and Morybetta, two silent calavera children. Set in the early nineteenth century, each of the films is based upon a different Mexican legend.
El final del camino is an adventure television series set in 11th-and 12th-century Iberia, with the construction of the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral as backdrop. It aired in 2017 on La 1 and TVG.
Stories to Stay Awake is a Spanish horror anthology television series consisting of a reboot of the series of the same name created by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador and broadcast on TVE from 1966 to 1982. It was released on Amazon Prime Video on 5 November 2021 and it is slated to air on RTVE in the future. The four parts are directed by Rodrigo Cortés, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Paco Plaza and Paula Ortiz.
