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El Monstruo Resucitado (lit. The Revived Monster) is a 1953 Mexican horror film directed by Chano Urueta and starring Miroslava, Carlos Navarro and José María Linares-Rivas. [1] Plot. A reporter, Nora (Miroslava), investigates the mysterious advertisement placed by Dr. Ling (Linares-Rivas), a plastic surgeon.
The first major medical sci/fi movie in Mexico, loosely based on the Frankenstein story but injecting gory surgical motifs into it, laying the foundations of the genres that came to dominate Hispanic Science Fictionin the 60's and 70's, as exempified by the work of Jesus Franco f... Read all.
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- Horror, Sci-Fi
- Chano Urueta
- 1955
El monstruo resucitado es una película de terror mexicana de 1953 dirigida por Chano Urueta y protagonizada por Miroslava, Carlos Navarro y José María Linares Rivas. [1]
Mar 23, 2021 · El monstruo resucitado has been called (on Wikipedia, no less) Mexico’s first serious take on the Frankenstein mythos, and it is more inspired by James Whale’s 1931 movie than the novel. Claims of “firsts” are always fraught with danger.
Summaries. The first major medical sci/fi movie in Mexico, loosely based on the Frankenstein story but injecting gory surgical motifs into it, laying the foundations of the genres that came to dominate Hispanic Science Fictionin the 60's and 70's, as exempified by the work of Jesus Franco from 'Gritos en la Noche' (1962) onwards.
"el monstruo resucitado" aka "il mostruoso dottor crimen" aka "the monstrous dr. crimen" aka "the revived monster" is a surprisingly atmospheric and effective horror film showing strong influences from the classic universal horror canon.
Set in the Balkans, this story concerns a bored journalist, Nora who is ordered by her boss to follow up a mysterious advertisement placed by Dr Ling. Ling turns out to be a misshapen creature who, rejected by his peers, has become the stereotypical mad scientist, here specializing in plastic surgery.
