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Trampa Infernal
''Trampa Infernal'' is a 1989 Mexican horror film written and directed by Pedro Galindo III, and co-written by Santiago Galindo. Plot A group of teenagers intend to hunt a bear and are stalked by a masked madman Vietnam veteran. Cast * Pedro Fernández as Nacho * Edith González as Alejandra * Toño Mauri as Mauricio * Charly Valentino as Charly * Marisol Santacruz as Carlota * Adriana Vega Antonia López Arroyo, known as Adriana Vega (born 25 February 1960) is a former Spanish actress. In 1978 she appeared in the TV program ''Destino Argentina'' as a flight-attendant, and in December she appeared in ''Sumarísimo'' as a police wom ... as Viviana * Alfredo Gutiérrez as Mr. Jeremías * Alberto Mejia Baron as Jesse * Armando Galván as Javier Reception Dread Central's Steve Barton had a positive response to the film, calling it "pure unadulterated grade-B entertainment" with deaths that "pack an interesting punch." Brett Gallman of Oh, the Horror! found that while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Savage
Carlos Savage (1919-2000) was a Mexican film editor and actor. He is also one of the descendants of Benito Juarez. His father, Carlos Savage Juarez, is the grandson of former Mexican President Benito Juarez, who was also a cadet in Mexico's Heroic Military Academy, where he participated in the famous " Marcha de la Lealtad" or "March of Loyalty" of the Mexican ex-president Francisco I. Madero. Selected filmography * '' Rosalinda'' (1945) * '' The Shack'' (1945) * ''Ramona'' (1946) * '' The Thief'' (1947) * ''The Private Life of Mark Antony and Cleopatra'' (1947) * ''Adventure in the Night'' (1948) * ''Jalisco Fair'' (1948) * '' A Family Like Many Others'' (1949) * ''The Great Madcap'' (1949) * ''Confessions of a Taxi Driver'' (1949) * '' Angels of the Arrabal'' (1949) * '' Desired'' (1951) * '' Acapulco'' (1952) * ''Snow White'' (1952) * ''Chucho the Mended'' (1952) * ''The Beautiful Dreamer'' (1952) * '' The Vagabond'' (1953) * ''The Sword of Granada'' (1953) * '' Made for Each O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Videocine
Videocine Entretenimiento is a Mexican film company, created and owned by TelevisaUnivision under its Televisa Cine brand. It is focused mainly on distributing and producing films for the Mexican market, while also distributing international films to the country. Videocine has released over 400 films, the majority of which are produced in Mexico, several being among the country's highest-grossing produced films. It has continually been releasing its films theatrically amidst competition with streaming companies and major Hollywood releases in Mexico. History Televisa has launched a then-unnamed film division on May 12, 1971, with its first film at the time being ''La Celestina'', released in 1976. It wasn't officially commenced until January 24, 1978, as Televicine. Its first film produced under the new name was ''El Chanfle'', released in 1979. Videocine was founded as the second film division of Televisa at the time. In 1999, both Televicine and Videocine have merged into a si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apocalyptic events, and religious or folk beliefs. Cinematic techniques used in horror films have been shown to provoke psychological reactions in an audience. Horror films have existed for more than a century. Early inspirations from before the development of film include folklore, religious beliefs and superstitions of different cultures, and the Gothic and horror literature of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley. From origins in silent films and German Expressionism, horror only became a codified genre after the release of ''Dracula'' (1931). Many sub-genres emerged in subsequent decades, including body horror, comedy horror, slasher films, supernatural horror and psychological horror. The genre has been produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The north was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist states, while the south was United States in the Vietnam War, supported by the United States and other anti-communism, anti-communist Free World Military Forces, allies. The war is widely considered to be a Cold War-era proxy war. It lasted almost 20 years, with direct U.S. involvement ending in 1973. The conflict also spilled over into neighboring states, exacerbating the Laotian Civil War and the Cambodian Civil War, which ended with all three countries becoming communist states by 1975. After the French 1954 Geneva Conference, military withdrawal from Indochina in 1954 – following their defeat in the First Indochina War – the Viet Minh to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Fernández (singer)
José Martín Cuevas Cobos (born September 28, 1969), known by his stage name Pedro Fernández, is a Mexican singer, songwriter, actor, and television host. Fernández began his international career as ''Pedrito'' Fernández at the age of seven. Fernández has recorded thirty-nine albums, acted in seven soap operas, and twenty five films. He has won 4 Latin Grammy Awards. His stage name is composed of the names of two of his favorite singers, (Pedro) Infante and Vicente (Fernandez). Early life His first album, '' La de la Mochila Azul'', named after the single, was released in 1978. His starring role in the film '' La niña de la mochila azul'' (''The Girl with the Blue Backpack'') was released in 1979 and led to a lifetime career of recording and film contracts. Career In 2001, his album Yo No Fui won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Ranchero Album. His album ''De Corazón'' was nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Best Ranchero/Mariachi Album at the 2003 Latin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith González
Edith González Fuentes (; 10 December 1964 – 13 June 2019) was a Mexican actress. She is best remembered for working on multiple telenovelas produced by three different multimedia companies, which included Televisa, TV Azteca and Telemundo. González made her acting debut on the telenovela produced by Televisa ''Cosa juzgada'' in 1970. She would later start a prominent career on multiple telenovelas produced by the same company, with her most famous works including ''Los ricos también lloran'' (1979–1980), ''Bianca Vidal'' (1982–1983), ''Corazón salvaje (1993 TV series), Corazón salvaje'' (1993–1994), ''Salomé (TV series), Salomé'' (2001–2002), ''Mundo de fieras (Mexican TV series), Mundo de fieras'' (2006–2007), ''Palabra de mujer (TV series), Palabra de mujer'' (2007–2008) and ''Camaleones'' (2009–2010). In 2011, she moved to TV Azteca, the second best-known multimedia company in Mexico, where she starred in the telenovelas ''Cielo rojo'' (2011–2012), ''V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toño Mauri
Toño Mauri (born July 29, 1964) is a Mexican singer and actor. He has performed in a number of telenovelas since 1985. He survived a double lung transplant after contracting COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December .... Selected filmography References External links * 1964 births Mexican male film actors Living people Mexican male telenovela actors Mexican people of Italian descent {{Mexico-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriana Vega
Antonia López Arroyo, known as Adriana Vega (born 25 February 1960) is a former Spanish actress. In 1978 she appeared in the TV program ''Destino Argentina'' as a flight-attendant, and in December she appeared in ''Sumarísimo'' as a police woman, along Manolo Codeso, Alfonso del Real, Nené Morales, Silvia Aguilar and Taida Urruzola. Her first three films includes ''El violador y sus mujeres a la sombra de un recuerdo'', ''Venus de fuego'' and ''Trampa sexual'', directed by José Antonio Barrero, Germán Lorente and Manuel Esteba respectively. Then she appeared in ''Historia de S'', ''Las siete magníficas y audaces mujeres'' (1979), ''El liguero mágico'', ''Viciosas al desnudo'' (1980), ''El sexo sentido'', ''La masajista vocacional'' and ''Los liantes'' (1981). ''Una gallina muy ponedora'', ''El Cid cabreador'', '' Juana la Loca... de vez en cuando'' (1983), ''Cuatro mujeres y un lío'' (1985), ''¡¡Esto sí se hace!!'' (1987) and ''Jet Marbella Set'' (1991). In May 1979, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dread Central
Dread Central is an American website founded in 2006 that is dedicated to horror news, interviews, and reviews. It covers horror films, comics, novels, and toys. Dread Central has won the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Website four times and was selected as AMC's Site of the Week in 2008. History Dread Central was founded on July 4, 2006. When a venture to create a horror-themed cable television channel stalled, the web team left and established their own news site. In 2012, a negative review posted by Scott Foy attracted controversy when Foy and the film's director, Jim Wynorski, engaged in a verbal altercation online. On September 30, 2019, Jonathan Barkan announced he was stepping down as editor-in-chief. As of December 2021, Mary Beth McAndrews is now Editor-in-Chief and Josh Korngut is managing editor. Website The site's staff use horror-themed aliases. The website has a broad focus, and it covers both mainstream and fringe topics that range from ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Films
The year 1989 involved many significant films. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1989 by worldwide gross are as follows: Events * Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million. Basinger would lose the town to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech Corp., in 1993 after being forced to file for bankruptcy when a California judge ordered her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the film ''Boxing Helena''. * A director's cut of ''Lawrence of Arabia'' is released with a 227-minute length. The restoration was undertaken by Robert A. Harris under the supervision of director David Lean. * April 23 – ''Field of Dreams'', starring Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, and Burt Lancaster, is released. * May 24 – '' Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' is released. It is the third installment of the Indiana Jones series. * June 13 – The James Bond film ''Licence to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Horror Films
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing a large Exxon Valdez oil spill, oil spill; The Fall of the Berlin Wall begins the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and heralds German reunification; The United States United States invasion of Panama, invades Panama to depose Manuel Noriega; The Singing Revolution led to the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union; The stands of Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, Yorkshire, where the Hillsborough disaster occurred; 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Students demonstrate in Tiananmen Square, Beijing; many are killed by forces of the Chinese Communist Party., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1989 Loma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s Slasher Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
