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The Projection Booth Podcast

Episode 768: Alucarda, la hija de las tiniebla (1977)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8686 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Shocktober 2025 spirals into demonic delirium with Juan López Moctezuma’s Alucarda (1977). This feverish blast of Mexican Gothic horror follows Justine (Susana Kamini), a sheltered orphan who finds herself drawn to the wild, otherworldly Alucarda (Tina Romero) within the stone walls of a convent that’s anything but holy. What begins as innocent friendship erupts into a blood-soaked storm of possession, blasphemy, and ecstatic madness.

Ryan Luis Rodriguez and Mark Begley join Mike to dissect Moctezuma’s infernal masterpiece — its ties to Jodorowsky’s surrealism, its place in the “nunsploitation” subgenre, and its bold feminist undercurrents that still scorch the screen nearly fifty years later.

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0:00.0

Hello, this is Chris Haskell from They Live by Film.

0:04.0

For those that don't know us, Adam, Zach and I, we built a podcast over the last two years that's a combination of film discussion from three very different perspectives,

0:13.0

as well as industry interviews with the leaders in Boutique Blu-ray and 4K community.

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We started with Dev Crocodile, but over time we've been lucky enough to speak

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with Aero Video, Severin, Mondo Macabro, Vinegar Syndrome, Radiance Indicator, most of the OCEN

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partner labels, it's been a blast. You can find us wherever you podcast, and also actually

0:34.0

recently as part of someone's favorite production podcast network. We hope to see you online.

0:38.3

Hello, this is Aaron West. I am the author of the A24 New Wave.

0:50.3

In this book, I look at A24's output, and I make the argument that we are in a new wave movement

0:55.3

right now. A24 plays a major role. This book has a supplemental podcast where each episode

1:01.9

is a brief conversation about an A24 related topic, whether an actor, director, or even a genre.

1:09.2

As I continue research for the book and conduct interviews,

1:12.3

I expect to record podcast episodes with people involved with the company.

1:16.6

You can find the podcast at senda journeys.com or wherever you find podcasts,

1:21.3

and we are proud to be members of the someone's favorite productions podcast network.

1:28.8

Hello and welcome to Tumbleweeds and TV Cowboys.

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My name is Hunter.

1:33.0

In this podcast, I'll be joined by a different guest each week to discuss a classic

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western movie or TV show.

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I've been a fan of classic westerns for as long as I can remember, and in recent years,

1:41.8

they've become very nostalgic for me.

1:43.7

I love the aesthetic, the tropes, and I love seeing different filmmakers' takes on them. At their best, they're incredibly entertaining, rewatchable, and some of my all-time favorite movies are westerns. We'll mostly focus on Western movies made in Hollywood, but we'll also be covering spaghetti westerns, and one thing I'm very excited to get into our Western TV shows. I've got some amazing guests coming on the show, film professors, historians, and podcasters, and tumbleweeds and TV Cowboys is part of the Someone's Favorite Productions podcast network, and many guests on the show will be from other shows on the network. Thanks for listening. The Projection Booth podcast is sponsored by Scarecrow video.

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