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El barón del terror

  • 1962
  • Approved
  • 1h 17min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
5,0/10
1437
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
El barón del terror (1962)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaIn 1661 Mexico, Baron Vitelius is executed for witchcraft. 300 years later, during a comet's return, he resurfaces as a brain-eating monster seeking revenge on the Inquisitors' descendants.In 1661 Mexico, Baron Vitelius is executed for witchcraft. 300 years later, during a comet's return, he resurfaces as a brain-eating monster seeking revenge on the Inquisitors' descendants.In 1661 Mexico, Baron Vitelius is executed for witchcraft. 300 years later, during a comet's return, he resurfaces as a brain-eating monster seeking revenge on the Inquisitors' descendants.

  • Regia
    • Chano Urueta
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Federico Curiel
    • Adolfo López Portillo
    • Antonio Orellana
  • Star
    • Abel Salazar
    • Ariadne Welter
    • David Silva
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    5,0/10
    1437
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Chano Urueta
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Federico Curiel
      • Adolfo López Portillo
      • Antonio Orellana
    • Star
      • Abel Salazar
      • Ariadne Welter
      • David Silva
    • 47Recensioni degli utenti
    • 38Recensioni della critica
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    Interpreti principali25

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    Abel Salazar
    Abel Salazar
    • Baron Vitelius d'Estera
    Ariadne Welter
    Ariadne Welter
    • Chica asesinada en restaurant…
    David Silva
    David Silva
    • Comandante…
    Germán Robles
    Germán Robles
    • Indalecio Pantoja
    • (as German Robles)
    • …
    Luis Aragón
    • Prof. Saturnino Millán
    • (as Luis Aragon)
    Mauricio Garcés
    Mauricio Garcés
    • Médico forense
    • (as Mauricio Garces)
    • …
    Ofelia Guilmáin
    Ofelia Guilmáin
    • Señora Meneses
    • (as Ofelia Guilmain)
    René Cardona
    René Cardona
    • Baltasar de Meneses
    • (as Rene Cardona)
    • …
    Rubén Rojo
    Rubén Rojo
    • Reynaldo Miranda
    • (as Ruben Rojo)
    • …
    Carlos Nieto
    • Lic. Francisco Coria
    Carlota Solares
    • Espectadora hoguera…
    Federico Curiel
    Federico Curiel
    • Detective
    Magda Donato
    Magda Donato
    • Doña Mariquita…
    Magda Urvizu
    • Ana Luisa del Vivar
    • (as Magda Urbizu)
    Miguel Brillas
    • Bibliotecario
    Rosa María Gallardo
    • Victoria Contreras
    • (as Rosa Ma. Gallardo)
    Roxana Bellini
    • María de Pantoja
    Susana Cora
    • Prostituta asesinada…
    • Regia
      • Chano Urueta
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Federico Curiel
      • Adolfo López Portillo
      • Antonio Orellana
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    Recensioni degli utenti47

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    7Coventry

    What a sexy looking fella!

    For once, the outrageous image displayed on the DVD-cover isn't an exaggeration, as the titular Terror-Baron for some reason really does occasionally mutate into a hideous creature with the long split tongue of a lizard, the big pointy ears of a bat and tiny trunks for hands! I don't know why the Mexican film crew opted for this peculiar monster-design, but it sure is original and a very welcome change from all the usual vampires, witches, werewolves and masked serial killers. The movie atmospherically opens in the year 1661, with the extended and relentless trial against Baron Vitelius d'Estera, who's condemned for sorcery, necromancy and a whole shopping list of other vile crimes against humanity. As a comet passes on the night of his execution, the Baron swears he'll reincarnate within 300 years and extract his bloody vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors who burned him alive at the stake. Punctually three centuries later, a comet falls onto earth and the Baron lives again. Introducing himself as a charming and eloquent man, he seeks contact with the kin of his executioners and ingeniously sucks the brains out of their skull whilst they're hypnotized. "Brainiac" doesn't play in the same quality league as some other contemporary Mexican horror films (like "Curse of the Crying Woman" and "The Black Pit of Dr. M"), but it's a tremendously entertaining and competently made black & white chiller. The film is fast-paced and obviously borrowing a lot of style-elements from fellow Gothic classics. The film is also stuffed with ludicrous twists and tacky special effects, yet for some reason the tone remains serious. Even when the screenplay reverts to dreadful clichés and stereotypes, the actors speak their lines straight faced and without blinking. The idea of vengeance against descendants isn't exactly groundbreaking either, but at least the film never gets dull or repetitive! Probably thanks to the incredibly cool-looking Baron, whose appearance is indescribably far-out! "Brainiac" is one bizarre horror film - albeit not THE most bizarre ever, like the tagline proudly announces – and the hardcore cult fanatics among us definitely should purchase it.
    gortx

    Compellingly weird

    A lot of films have taken on the "cult film" mantle in the past couple of decades. Many of them (i.e. BATTLEFIELD EARTH) are not the joyous exercise in pure "so bad it's good" glee that its followers claim. But, let us stake a claim that THE BRAINIAC deserves a place in that hall of fame.

    Torture, the Inquisition, Comets, Astronomers, Barons, falling meteorites, serial stalking, a head-pulsing 300 year-old demon, and brains! Yup, that's a brief overview of the topics covered in the deliriously entertaining THE BRAINIAC! I had a chance to actually witness the indescribable movie on the big screen yesterday, and the audicence went wild. And hey, we get to see an evil serial killer munching on a plate of fresh brains 4 DECADES before Anthony Hopkins had his hors d'oevres in HANNIBAL!
    5claudio_carvalho

    Brain Eater Monster

    In 1661, in Mexico, the Inquisition sentences the Baron Vitelius d'Estera (Abel Salazar) to be burned at the stake for witchcraft, necromancy and seduction of wives and damsels of the lords. He is unsuccessfully defended by the noble Marcos Miranda (Rubén Rojo). The Baron curses the descendants of the four Inquisitors - Indalecio Pantoja (Germán Robles), Baltasar de Meneses (René Cardona), Reinaldo Miranda (Rubén Rojo) and Contreras (Miguel Brillas) - promising that he will return in three hundred years to eliminate them while a comet passes in the sky.

    In 1961, the astronomer Prof. Saturnino Millán (Luis Aragón) sees the passage of a comet with his assistants Reinaldo Miranda and Victoria Contreras (Rosa Maria Gallardo) in the sky of Mexico. The comet brings Baron Vitelius d'Estera in the form of a brain eater monster. When the baron finds Sebastián de Pantoja, Luis Meneses, Marcos Miranda and Victoria Contreras, who are descendants of the Inquisitors, his vengeance begins.

    "El barón del terror", a.k.a. "The Brainiac", is a trash Mexican horror movie directed by the unknown Chano Urueta. The story is non-sense, with a man returning to Mexico in a comet in the form of a cheesy monster and inviting prominent people that do not know him to a party. There are also two police inspectors that are investigating the death of the monster's victims and are also invited to the same party. Therefore the Baron intends to kill the descendants of the Inquisitors and brings the police to his house that he has apparently rented with a butler. Anyway, if you enjoy trash movie, forget the logic, shutdown your brain and enjoy this flick. My vote is five.

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    6ferbs54

    Absolute Lysergic Surrealism

    It turns out that all the word of mouth about the Mexican horror flick "The Brainiac" (1961) is absolutely correct: It IS one wild and loopy film experience! This picture tells the story of the necromancer Baron Vitelius Destera (played by the film's handsome producer, Abel Salazar), who is burned at the stake in 1661 by the Inquisition in Mexico City and swears vengeance on the descendants of his tormentors. Good to his word, the Baron falls to Earth in 1961 on a comet (the phoniest-looking comet ever shown on film, perhaps) to begin his homicidal agenda. Destera has the ability to transform himself into a giant-headed, pointy-nosed, fork-tongued monster, and his ability to hypnotize with a glance and bend others to his mental will makes his nefarious plans that much simpler. Oh...did I mention that the Baron uses his Gene Simmons-like tongue to suck his victims' brains out? Oh, man! Sounds pretty cool, right? Truth to tell, though, this film has been made on the cheap, with loads of ersatz-looking backdrops, lousy FX, and reams of unexplained happenings. Why, for example, does the Baron need to keep a stemmed dish of brains around for snacking purposes? How do the film's detectives ultimately crack the case of all these homicides? Why is fire able to harm the Baron in 1961 but not in 1661? Where DID that blasted comet disappear to? This movie has so many head-scratching moments, so many outrageous situations, so many admittedly cool murder scenes, such egregiously artificial backdrops and such strange humor (brain tacos, anyone?) that the net result is one of absolute lysergic surrealism. So yes, the movie is a hoot, and features a monster you won't soon forget. Unlike the Baron himself, the film is NOT a brain-drainer, but a genuinely exhilarating cult item. I, for one, was sufficiently impressed to check out director Chano Urueta's next effort, 1962's "The Witch's Mirror"...
    4BA_Harrison

    He's a maniac who eats brains!

    Mexico, 1661: Baron Vitelius of Astara (Abel Salazar) is sentenced to death by the Mexican Inquisition for acts of heresy, witchcraft, necromancy and generally being annoying. As he is burnt alive and a comet passes overhead, the baron vows to return in 300 years to take revenge by killing Inquisitors' descendants. Sure enough, three centuries later the comet reappears, bringing with it the baron, who is able to change from human form into a hideous brainsucking monster.

    The Brainiac features one of the goofiest movie monsters you're ever likely to see in a horror film, Mexican or otherwise, the wholly unconvincing creature having tubular quivering pincers, a pulsating hairy head, pointy rubber ears and nose, extra large fangs, and a forked tongue with which to suck out its victims' brains. But as hilarious as this monster is, it cannot make up for the film's dull plot, lifeless direction and cheap production values: printed backdrops stand in for real locations, the comet looks like a cut-out piece of paper stuck to a sheet of glass, and the baron's hypnotic gaze is achieved by shining a light into his eyes.

    The film's best moment is the shocking discovery of a body suspended upside down in a bath-tub (the man's head underwater), although any scene featuring the voluptuous Rosa María Gallardo as astronomer Victoria Contreras is worth a look (she can calibrate my telescope any day of the week!); worst (and consequently funniest) moments include the arrival of the creature inside a rock, the baron sneaking off to tuck into his bowlful of brains, and the wide-eyed expressions on the faces of his mesmerized victims.

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      This movie was referred to in the Frank Zappa/Captain Beefheart song Debra Kadabra from the album Bongo Fury.
    • Blooper
      After the Baron kills the professor and his daughter, he sets fire to their house. As they lay dead, their eyelids move.
    • Citazioni

      Bennie: I've gotta examine them to find out who drilled those holes in their skulls. It probably was some maniac who thought he was cracking a safe!

    • Versioni alternative
      In the director's cut version, there's a scene where the Garces character ask to his reflection in the mirror: "Where's my god, where's my last love and my last reward for be crying to the night? Perhaps the legs of my diseased mother expels more energy than your love, God".
    • Connessioni
      Edited from El espejo de la bruja (1962)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 9 novembre 1962 (Messico)
    • Paese di origine
      • Messico
    • Sito ufficiale
      • Official Site
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      • Spagnolo
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Estudios Churubusco - C. Atletas 2, Country Club Churubusco, Coyoacán, Città del Messico, Distretto Federale, Messico(Studio, as Churubusco-Azteca)
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Cinematográfica ABSA
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      • Black and White
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      • 1.37 : 1

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