''Un baúl lleno de miedo'' ("A Trunk Full of Fear" in English) is a Mexican comedy film directed by Joaquín Bissner, written by Danilo Cuéllar and produced by

Roberto Gómez Bolaños Roberto Gómez Bolaños (21 February 1929 – 28 November 2014), more commonly known by his stage name Chespirito, or "Little William Shakespeare, Shakespeare", was a Mexican actor, comedian, screenwriter, humorist, director, producer, and au ...

. Released in 1997, it stars

Diana Bracho Diana Bracho (born Diana Guadalupe Bracho y Bordes Mangel; 12 December 1944, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress. Early life Diana Bracho is the daughter of actor/director Julio Bracho, the niece of actress Andrea Palma and the aunt of ...

and

Julián Pastor Julián Pastor (18 October 1943 - 24 August 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 ac ...

Plot

Esteban Estévez, a mystery novel writer, must finish his new work, so in search of inspiration, he moves to an isolated cabin in the woods with his wife, Cristina, and his assistant, Federico. Secretly, Federico had been renting the cabin to a mysterious woman whom he urges to leave the house before Esteban and Cristina arrive. While leaving, the woman decides to keep an uncomfortable thing inside the house: a trunk containing a corpse.

Cast

as Cristina de Estévez *

as Esteban Estévez *

Carlos Espejel Carlos Espejel Leguizano (born April 21, 1972) is a Mexican telenovela actor and comedian, best known for his roles as "Chiquidrácula" (1982–1987) and "Carlinflas" (1982–2006). Biography Espejel started his acting career at an early age. ...

as Federico *

Patricia Llaca Patricia Llaca is a Mexican actress who has participated both in films, soap operas and TV shows. She is also sometimes credited as Patricia De Llaca. She is best known for her role as Andrea in the film '' La Habitación Azul''. Since 2005, Ll ...

as Laura Toledo *

Maya Mishalska Maya Mishalska (born Miroslawa Maja Miszalska Harasymowicz on December 8, 1971, in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-born Mexican actress, violinist and TV presenter. Biography She began playing the violin at the age of six. Through ten years of stu ...

as Emilia *

Miguel Ángel Fuentes Miguel Ángel Fuentes Azpiroz (born 6 August 1964) is a Spanish retired footballer who played mainly as a right-back. He spent his entire professional career with Real Sociedad, appearing in nearly 500 competitive matches, among the highest t ...

as the Black Vampire * Arturo Amor as Dead Man

Production

Diana Bracho made the film two years after having made ''

Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman ''Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman'' ( es, Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda) is a 1996 Mexican comedy film directed by Sabina Berman and Isabelle Tardán. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film ...

''. In his autobiography ''Sin querer queriendo'', Roberto Gómez Bolaños affirmed that the film suffered from a "very poor promotion", and as a result "it did not achieve the expected success", with Gómez Bolaños stating that the same had happened with the previous film he produced, ''¡Que vivan los muertos!''.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baul lleno de miedo, Un 1997 films 1990s Spanish-language films 1997 comedy films Mexican comedy films 1990s Mexican films