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1957 | B/N | 84:00

Marta is going to Sierra Negra to visit her ailing aunt. Enrique, a travel agent on same train, offers to accompany her. When they reach the station, the couple agrees to continue their journey in a rickety carriage that is transporting a mysterious box from Hungary. Once they arrive at her relatives’ place, Marta finds find out that her aunt is dead. She decides to stay – not realizing that she is now at the mercy of vampires.


Country: México
Direction: Méndez; Fernando
Script: Obón; Ramón
Production: Salazar; Abel
Photography: Solano; Rosalío
Sound: Rodríguez; Enríque, Ruiz Esparza; Rafael
Music: Carrión; Gustavo César
Cast:Jiménez; José Luis, Montejo; Carmen, Robles; Germán, Salazar; Abel, Welter; Ariadna
Art direction: Gerszo; Gunther
Participation year at FICM: 2015

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