'' Más Negro que la Noche'' (Blacker Than Night) is a 1975 Mexican

supernatural horror film Supernatural horror film is a film genre that combines aspects of supernatural film and horror film. Supernatural occurrences in such films often include ghosts and demons, and many supernatural horror films have elements of religion. Common them ...

, written and directed by

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 la ...

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 boyfriend are leaving the house, the cat's meowing is heard in house.

Cast

* Claudia Islas - Ofelia *

Susana Dosamantes María del Perpetuo Socorro Guadalupe Susana Dosamantes Rul Riestra (9 January 1948 – 2 July 2022), known professionally as Susana Dosamantes (), was a Mexican actress. She won the 1990 TVyNovelas Best Antagonist Actress award for her role ...

- Aurora *

Lucía Méndez Lucía Leticia Méndez Pérez (born January 26, 1955) is a Mexican telenovela and film actress, top model and singer. Méndez was born in León, Guanajuato, Mexico. Career Her first work in television was in the telenovela “Muchacha itali ...

- Marta *

Helena Rojo María Elena Enríquez Ruiz (18 August 1944 – 3 February 2024), known as Helena Rojo, was a Mexican actress and model. Biography Born in Mexico City, Mexico, she began her career as a model in 1961. Toward the end of the decade, she studied ...

- Pilar *

Julián Pastor Julián Pastor (18October 194324August 2015) was a Mexican actor and film director. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1973 to 2008. Filmography References External links * 1943 births 2015 deaths Mexican male film actors ...

- Pedro * Alicia Palacios - Sofia * Pedro Armendáriz Jr. - Roberto * - Tia Susana

Release

The film premiered on December 25, 1975, in

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

and was released in the late 1970s as ''Blacker Than the Night''.

Remake

In 2014, Henry Bedwell directed a

remake A remake is a film, television series, video game, song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story of an earlier production in the same medium—e.g., a "new version of an existing film". A remake tells the same s ...

of the film, this time with an English release title of '' Darker Than Night''.

Notes

External links

* 1975 films 1975 horror films Mexican supernatural horror films Films directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada Films set in country houses 1970s Mexican films 1970s slasher films {{1970s-horror-film-stub