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And this is Joe McCormick. And in today's episode of Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb. And this is Joe McCormick.

And in today's episode of Weird House Cinema, we're going to return once more to the wild world of Mexican horror to consider a film and a filmmaker often celebrated as one of its true greats.

We'll be discussing the 1977 cult classic Alucarda, also known as Alucarda, the Daughter of Darkness,

directed by Juan Lopez Montezuma.

While not well received by mainstream Mexican audiences at the time, it has become an obvious cult classic, a midnight movie.

It's been championed by the likes of Guillermo del de torro david j scall uh michael weldon

uh just to name a few uh this is this is one you poke around online and you can see folks are

constantly discovering and rediscovering alucarda and uh and everyone seems to be blown away by it

when they encounter it i think it's exactly the kind of film ripe for this sort of rediscovery and, I don't know,

late positive reception because of the different textures that it gets into.

A part of it feels like an art film, you know, it has some really interesting writing that's not a writing and performance that is, you know, not just going through the standard horror tropes.

But then there is also a lot of just standard horror exploitation content.

And the way they blend together is unusual and interesting.

It's almost an intellectual film, but then it's also

just a, you know, frenzied, getting naked with the devil kind of thing. Yeah, yeah. This film,

it's a lot of things. As we'll discuss, there's definitely a strong European Gothic horror

element to it, though, to be clear, it is European Gothic horror element to it.

Though, to be clear, it is set and filmed in Mexico.

And then there is also a strong avant-garde surrealist element to it.

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