El Monstruo Resucitado (1953)

Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database	04.09.09

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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. Set in the Balkans, this story concerns a bored journalist, Nora (miroslava) who is ordered by her boss (Wagner) to follow up a mysterious advertisement placed by Dr Ling (Linares Rivas). Ling turns out to be a misshapen creature who, rejected by his peers, has become the stereotypical mad scientist, here specializing in plastic surgery. He falls in love with Nora but fearing she will betray him he resuscitates a young man who committed suicide, Ariel (Navarro) by transplanting a new brain into him, and order him to fetch Nora so that he can kill her. However, Nora and Ariel fall in love, and the zombiesque youth rebels against the orders of his master, turning on him and kill him, whereupon Wagner saves Nora from the beautiful young zombie. Movie Tagline: The Tragic Limits and Secrets of Dr Crimen! Title: El Monstruo Resucitado Release Date: , 1955 Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Horror All Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi Languages: Spanish Country: Mexico Colors: Black and White Sound: Mono IMDB Rating: 6.9 Brimstone Pit Rating: 7.9 - (Rate This Horror Movie) Category: Horror Movies Starting With E Director(s): Chano Urueta Cast: Miroslava ...Nora Carlos Navarro ...Ariel / Serguei Rostov Jose Maria Linares Rivas ...Hermann Ling Fernando Wagner ...Gherasimos Alberto Mariscal ...Mischa Stefan Berne ...Crommer Remaining Cast: Producer(s): Sergio Kogan Writer(s): Arduino Maiuri Chano Urueta Composer(s): Raul Lavista More Movie Taglines: The Tragic Limits and Secrets of Dr Crimen! Movie Trivia: The movie inverts the usual Frankenstein roles, making the monster attractive and the Doctor a morbid monster. IMDB Links: » User Comments at imdb.com » More information at imdb.com Seen it? Rate it Currently 7.90/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rating: 7.9 out of 10.0 - 50 votes cast total buy movie on dvd del.icio.us  |  digg  |  reddit Enter your zipcode for movie listings: » BACK TO HORROR MOVIES LIST