La Hora Fria: The Living Coffin

El grito de la muerte / The Living Coffin
Dir: Fernando Méndez
72 min, Mexico, 1958
Cast: Gastón Santos, María Duval, Quintín Bulnes, Pedro de Aguillón, Carlos Ancira
 
Gastón and his sidekick Coyote Loco ("Crazy Wolf"), stop at an eerie ranch to learn more about a stone figure they've unearthed that depicts a crying woman. They hear from María Elena, the owner of the ranch, that it was Clotilde, her dead aunt. Clotilde's two children were mysteriously swallowed by the swamp; the ghost of Clotilde - "La Llorona" - haunts the ranch, mourning for her children and keeping visitors away. Gastón and Coyote Loco are pulled into an action-packed, spine-tingling web of supernatural spookery and dangerous criminals out to unearth a secret vein of gold in this eerie atmospheric reinvention of a timeless Mexican legend and Edgar Allen Poe's classic The Premature Burial.
 

La Hora Fria: Classic Mexican Horror runs 10/21-11/6 at the Mexican American Culture Center (MACC) at 600 River Street.  All shows are free and start at 8pm.  For more information go to Cine Las Americas.