El vampiro

El vampiro (English: The Vampire) is a 1957 Mexican horror film, produced by Abel Salazar and directed by Fernando Méndez from an original screenplay by Ramon Obon, and starring German Robles as Count Lavud, the vampire. The film offered an original, Mexican version of the vampire legend and was, in that context, highly popular and influential for the Mexican cinema.

This article is about the film. For the tennis player, see Nicolás Massú.
El vampiro
Directed byFernando Méndez
Produced byAbel Salazar
Written byRamón Obón (Story and adaptation)
StarringAbel Salazar
Germán Robles
Ariadne Welter
Carmen Montejo
José Luis Jiménez
Music byGustavo César Carrión
Release date
  • 1957 (1957)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

Plot

The film is about Marta, a young woman, who travels to her childhood village, only to find that one of her aunts is dead and another is under the influence of Mr. Duval, who later turns out to be a vampire named Count Karol de Lavud.

Cast
  • German Robles as Conde (Count) Karol de Lavud
  • Ariadne Welter as Marta
  • Abel Salazar as Dr. Enrique
  • Carmen Montejo as Eloise
  • Jose Luis Jimenez as Ambrosio
  • Alicia Montejo
  • Mercedes Soler
  • Jose Chavez
  • Julio Daneri
  • Amado Zumaya
  • Guillermo Alvarez Bianchi
  • Margarito Luna
  • Lydia Mellon

Production

It is one of the first movies to show a vampire with elongated canines. Although F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (Max Schrek) had elongated incisors; Tod Browning's Dracula (Bela Lugosi) did not show his teeth at all. This film can therefore be seen as a link between the Universal and the Hammer presentations of vampires.

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