Barbarous Mexico

2014 [SPANISH]

Action / Horror

3
IMDb Rating 4.7/10 10 1142 1.1K

mexico legend urban legend mexica (aztec) woman director

Plot summary

Eight tales based on the most brutally terrifying Mexican traditions and legends, an anthology of haunting stories woven into the fabric of the Mexican culture, some told through the centuries and some new, but all equally frightening. Bogeymen, trolls, ghosts, monsters, all brought to life. Time for Aztec sacrifices. This is the Day of the Dead.

Director

Jorge Michel Grau Photo
Jorge Michel Grau

Top cast

Harold Torres Photo
Harold Torres as José
Ken Dresen Photo
Ken Dresen as Greg
Mathias Retamal Photo
Mathias Retamal as Greasy Man
Dave Walden Photo
Dave Walden as Carlos
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.03 GB
1280*544
Spanish 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 54 min
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2.12 GB
1920*816
Spanish 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 54 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by GreyHunter 4 / 10

To be fair...

The quality of most of these shorts is actually pretty good in terms of camera-work and cinematography. The quality of the acting ios decent too, mostly. There's really nothing to earn a low rating on those grounds. If these are representative of current Mexican cinema, they're actually pretty good exemplars to praise.Now...the stories and approaches to horror...well, that's another issue. A couple of them weren't bad, primarily the 2nd one, set in a haunted hacienda. But somewhere along the line, Mexican horror filmmaking seems to have equated horror with disgusting and off-putting. And that's a huge problem. When you leave your audience more queasy than scared, you've failed at horror. There;s a reason the genre is called 'horror movies' rather than 'disgusting movies'. Your core audience might be somewhat jaded to gore, but that's not really the reason why (most of them) watch.Just on filmmaking grounds alone, there's a lot of promise for Mexican cinema on display here. If these filmmakers manage to substitute real horror for excessive viscera, I'd certainly love to watch what they put out.(Also, several of them drag out shots and scenes for far too long. But that's an easily correctable issue.)
Reviewed by dcarsonhagy 5 / 10

A Little Too Savage

"Barbarous Mexico" sure does live up to its name. Found this little known movie On-Demand, and thought I would check it out. I thought its cinematography was way above most movies of this genre. However, I also thought the directors needed to pull back on the reins just a little."Barbarous Mexico" is a horror anthology from south of the border. It tells different stories--some better than others. What I was in complete shock over was its rating. It is amazing this movie received the rating it did. On-Demand listed it as an "R" rating; I thought it should have received an NC-17 rating. Its savagery throughout had me turning away from my television on more than one occasion. And its nightmarish stories do not spare anyone-- including children. Another reviewer apparently saw a lot more in this compilation than I did, but to each his own. WARNING: There have been few movies I have reviewed which I deemed needed to come with this label, but this is one of them. This movie contains full nudity of both sexes, a savage rape, simulated oral rape by a demon (complete with "member"), cannibalism of a child, graphic sexual couplings, and graphic violence. It should not be viewed by anyone UNDER 18.I do not recommend it and I strongly caution all parents before allowing a minor to watch it.
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