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Juan López Moctezuma

Juan López Moctezuma

Director · Born 1932-01-01 · Mexico City, Mexico

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Biography

Juan López Moctezuma (1929 – August 2, 1995) was a Mexican film director and actor. He was born in Mexico City in 1929.[1] During his career he directed five films, all in the genres of Gothic horror and suspense: The Mansion of Madness (1972), Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1974), To Kill a Stranger (1983), El Alimento del Miedo (1994), and his most recognized and controversial work, Alucarda (1978), which tells the story of a satanic possession in a Catholic convent. In 1993 he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Mexico City because of Alzheimer's disease. He died on August 2, 1995.

Directed

  1. Alucarda (1977) — Director
  2. The Mansion of Madness (1973) — Director
  3. Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975) — Director
  4. To Kill a Stranger (1986) — Director
  5. The Food of Fear (1994) — Director
  6. Welcome Maria (1986) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. The Stork's Mistake (1993) — Cura
  2. To Kill a Stranger (1986) — Albert Morell
  3. Alucardos: Portrait of a Vampire (2011) — Self (Archive footage)
  4. Someone Wants to Kill Us! (1970)
  5. Adios, amor... (1973)
  6. The Food of Fear (1994) — Don Ramón