El Vampiro

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name = El vampiro


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imdb_id = 0051151
writer = Ramón Obón (Story and adaptation)

starring = Abel Salazar
Germán Robles
Ariadna Welter
Carmen Montejo
José Luis Jiménez

director = Fernando Méndez

producer = Abel Salazar

distributor =
released = 1957
runtime = 95 min.
language = Spanish
music = Gustavo César Carrión
awards =
budget =

" El vampiro" (English: "The Vampire") is a 1957 Mexican horror film, directed by Fernando Méndez. The film is about Marta, a young girl, 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 whose name is the Count Karol de Lavud.It is possibly the first movie to actually show a vampire with elongated canines. F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (Max Schrek) had elongated incisors; Tod Browning's Dracula (Bela Lugosi) did not show his teeth at all.

Also introduced here is the concept of vampires spelling their names backwards as a means of hiding its identity.

This film can therefore be seen as a link between the Universal and the Hammer presentations of vampires.

External links

*imdb title|0051151
* [http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/peliculas/vampiro.html Tecnológico de Monterrey]
* [http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/Reviews/Q-T/el_vampiro.html DVD Maniacs]
* [http://www.cinefania.com/movie.php/137298/ Revista Cinefania]
* [http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=25138&___rd=1 DVD Talk]
* [http://membres.lycos.fr/gimena/santo/vampiro.htm Vampires on the Screen]