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Carlos Enrique Taboada
Carlos Enrique Taboada Walker (July 18, 1929 - April 15, 1997) was a Mexican screenwriter and director. He is best known for his supernatural Terror and suspense films including Hasta el viento tiene miedo, Más negro que la noche, Veneno para las hadas, and El Libro de piedra. He won two Ariel Awards (Mexican film academy awards) for Best Picture and Best Director for his 1984 film ''Poison for the Fairies''. Career Carlos Enrique Taboada was the son of the actors Julio Taboada and Aurora Walker. He began his career in 1950 as an scriptwriter and director on Mexican television. In 1954, disappointed by reception of his first screenplay, Taboada retired from screenwriting for five years. This would happen again towards the end of his career, during which time his work began to receive international critical acclaim. Filmography As screenwriter * ''Kid Tabaco'' (1954) * ''El pandillero'' (1959) * ''Chucho el Roto'' * ''Aventuras de Chucho el Roto'' * ''La captura de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supernatural Terror
Supernatural refers to phenomena or entities that are beyond the laws of nature. The term is derived from Medieval Latin , from Latin (above, beyond, or outside of) + (nature) Though the corollary term "nature", has had multiple meanings since the ancient world, the term "supernatural" emerged in the Middle Ages and did not exist in the ancient world. The supernatural is featured in folklore and religious contexts, but can also feature as an explanation in more secular contexts, as in the cases of superstitions or belief in the paranormal. The term is attributed to non-physical entities, such as angels, demons, gods, and spirits. It also includes claimed abilities embodied in or provided by such beings, including magic, telekinesis, levitation, precognition, and extrasensory perception. The philosophy of naturalism contends that nothing exists beyond the natural world, and as such approaches supernatural claims with skepticism. Etymology and history of the concept Occurr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suspense Films
Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. Tension is created by delaying what the audience sees as inevitable, and is built through situations that are menacing or where escape seems impossible. The cover-up of important information from the viewer, and fight and chase scenes are common methods. Life is typically threatened in a thriller film, such as when the protagonist does not realize that they are entering a dangerous situation. Thriller films' characters conflict with each other or with an outside force, which can sometimes be abstract. The protagonist is usually set against a problem, such as an escape, a goal, mission, or a mystery. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identifies thriller films as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, screenwrite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasta El Viento Tiene Miedo
'' Hasta el viento tiene miedo'', known in English as ''Even the Wind is Afraid'' and ''The Wind of Fear'', is a 1968 (1967 according to the ITESM) Mexican Gothic fiction, gothic supernatural horror film, written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada. It is considered a cult movie in México and has been credited as having revitalized the Mexican horror genre. A remake was released in 2007. Plot The film is about a group of students in an exclusive college for women, led by Claudia (Alicia Bonet) who decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing and recurring dreams Claudia has been having. The dream also features a hanged woman's body. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before, and that the teacher has seen their ghost. Andrea, the young woman who committed suicide in the tower, haunts the women's college seek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Más Negro Que La Noche
'' Más Negro que la Noche'' (Blacker Than Night) is a 1975 Mexican supernatural horror film, written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada. Plot The film is about four women that move to a creepy house, inherited by one of them from an old aunt; as a condition, they must take care of the aunt's pet, a black cat. One day they find the cat dead. Soon after, Aurora's dead body is found hanging upside down in the library by Ofelia due to a heart attack. One night, a half drunken Pilar comes to the house. As she is walking to the steps she sees the ghost of Susana and falls to her death on the floor breaking her neck. Now Ofelia and Marta are the only ones left in the house. Marta tells Ofelia that Aurora had killed the cat along with her and Pilar, and that she knows that she is next. Ofelia tells her to get away from the house and she runs to open the gate for her boyfriend. They find Marta impaled with several knitting needles on her chest. As a sobbing Ofelia and her boyfri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veneno Para Las Hadas
'' Veneno para las hadas'' (''Poison for the Fairies'') is a 1984 Mexican supernatural horror film that was written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada. Plot Veronica is a young orphan living alone in a dilapidated villa with her invalid grandmother and her superstitious nanny. The nanny fills Veronica's mind with sinister tales of witches, which she insists are real. Rather than being frightened, Veronica often comforts herself with these stories to feel more powerful than the girls at her parochial school, who mock and ostracize her for her strangeness. Shy, lonely Flavia, who comes from a very wealthy family, arrives as a new student. Veronica envies Flavia's material wealth, as well as her doting parents. Hoping to impress Flavia, Veronica boasts about being a real witch who can make anything she wants happen. Flavia, who was raised an atheist, is skeptical of Veronica's claims, but also fearful. To convince her, Veronica takes credit for a series of strange coincidenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Libro De Piedra
'' El Libro de piedra'' (The Book of Stone) is a 1969 Mexican supernatural horror film, written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada. This film was remaded in 2009. Plot Julia is hired to be the governess of a young girl, Sylvia who has an emotionally distant father, Eugenio, and a new stepmother, Mariana, since her mother passed away many years ago. Sylvia insists that she plays with a little boy named Hugo and Julia thinks that it might be a neighbor boy and tells Sylvia that she would like to meet him but Sylvia doesn't want her to meet Hugo. When Julia tells Eugenio about Hugo he explains to her that he isn't real and tells her to go by the lake. Over there Julia finds a large stone statue of a boy holding a book. She wasn't sure why Eugenio wanted her to see the statue to which he replies that that statue is Hugo and that Sylvia is mentally ill. He tells Julia that that statue came with the house and ever since Sylvia has been acting strange. Sylvia at first doesn't like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Awards
The Ariel Award ( es, Premio Ariel) is an award that recognizes the best of Mexican cinema. Given annually, since 1946, by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AMACC), the award recognizes artistical and technical excellence in the Mexican film industry. The purpose of the Ariel recognition is to stimulate and increase the excellence of Mexican cinema, favor the growth of the industry, and promote the meeting and strengthening of the national film community. It is regarded as the most prestigious award in the Mexican film industry and considered Mexico's equivalent to the Oscars of the United States. History The statuette is in the image of a man and it was designed by the sculptor Ignacio Asúnsolo. The original statuette is currently found inside Churubusco Studios in Mexico City. The name "Ariel" was inspired by a series of short writings called '' El Ariel'' by Uruguayan writer José Enrique Rodó that inspired generations of young Latin America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurora Walker
Aurora Walker García (1904–1964) was a Mexican film actress. She appeared in more than a hundred and twenty films during her career.Agrasánchez p.159 She was married to Mexican actor Julio Taboada until her death (suicide by electrocution) 2 January 1964. Their son is Mexican movie writer and director Carlos Enrique Taboada Carlos Enrique Taboada Walker (July 18, 1929 - April 15, 1997) was a Mexican screenwriter and director. He is best known for his supernatural Terror and suspense films including Hasta el viento tiene miedo, Más negro que la noche, Veneno par .... References * 1904 births 1964 deaths Mexican film actresses 20th-century Mexican actresses Actresses from Mexico City {{Mexico-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chucho El Roto
Jesus Arriaga, better known as Chucho el Roto (1858–1885), was a Mexican bandit active in the late 19th century, whose life story has been the basis of number of books, plays and other media since before his death. His real name was Jesús Arriaga; the nickname ''Chucho'' (literally "mutt") is a common diminutive of Jesús in Spanish, and ''roto'' (literally, "broken") can be translated as "discarded" or "ragged". Arriaga was born in the state of Tlaxcala in 1858. After being forced to abandon his family, Chucho became a bandit, becoming famous in the late 1870s and the first half of the 1880s. His fame came from his ability to cross Mexico's strong socioeconomic circles and use this ability to rob from the wealthy. His legend also includes the love of fine clothes and the theater despite his humble birth and the sharing of at least some of his gains with the poor. The last aspect has prompted comparisons between him and Robin Hood. Chucho was last arrested in 1884 and died in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Inocentes
''The Innocents'' ( es, Los inocentes) is a 1963 Argentine-Spanish drama film written and directed by Juan Antonio Bardem. It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was shot in the Argentinian city of Mar del Plata, and tells the love story of a young, innocent woman, Elena Ezzquelia, and an older, brokenhearted man, Guido Santroti. Young Elena comes from a rich family, who immediately refused to her having a relationship with Guido, who was just a middle-class man, according to them. Cast * Alfredo Alcón as Guido Santrori * Paloma Valdés as Elena Ezzquellia * Enrique Fava Enrique Fava (1920 – 13 June 1994) was an Argentine actor. He appeared in 32 films and television shows between 1948 and 1986. He starred in the film ''Los dioses ajenos'', which was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival. ... as Ignazio Fuentes * Zelmar Gueñol as Leiva Fuentes * Lía Casanova as Natalia Ezzquellia * Eduardo Muñoz as Dionisio Ez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma Llanera (film)
''Alma llanera'' (English: "Soul of the Plains") is a 1965 Mexican Western drama film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares and starring Antonio Aguilar, Flor Silvestre and Manuel Capetillo. It features Aguilar portraying his characteristic film hero. Plot Two childhood friends, Juan Pablo (Antonio Aguilar) and Ramiro (Manuel Capetillo) meet again, but when a difficult situation arises, the friends are slowly turned into rivals. Complicating matters is Juan Pablo's love for Lucía (Flor Silvestre). Cast *Antonio Aguilar as Juan Pablo Ureña * Flor Silvestre as Lucía *Manuel Capetillo as Ramiro Leyva * Manuel Dondé as El tuerto * Juan José Laboriel as Zampayo *Augusto Monterroso Augusto Monterroso Bonilla (December 21, 1921 - February 7, 2003) was a Honduran writer who adopted Guatemalan nationality, known for the ironical and humorous style of his short stories. He is considered an important figure in the Latin Americ ... as Doctor Ramos * Claudio Lanuza (as Claudio L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Libro De Piedra
'' El Libro de piedra'' (The Book of Stone) is a 1969 Mexican supernatural horror film, written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada. This film was remaded in 2009. Plot Julia is hired to be the governess of a young girl, Sylvia who has an emotionally distant father, Eugenio, and a new stepmother, Mariana, since her mother passed away many years ago. Sylvia insists that she plays with a little boy named Hugo and Julia thinks that it might be a neighbor boy and tells Sylvia that she would like to meet him but Sylvia doesn't want her to meet Hugo. When Julia tells Eugenio about Hugo he explains to her that he isn't real and tells her to go by the lake. Over there Julia finds a large stone statue of a boy holding a book. She wasn't sure why Eugenio wanted her to see the statue to which he replies that that statue is Hugo and that Sylvia is mentally ill. He tells Julia that that statue came with the house and ever since Sylvia has been acting strange. Sylvia at first doesn't like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
