Baron of Terror (1962)
aka El barón del terror aka The Brainiac
Genre: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Country: Mexico| Director: Chano Urueta
Language: English | Subtitles: English (Optional, embedded in Mkv file)
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 | Length: 77mn
Dvdrip H264 Mkv - 640x48 - 23.976fps - 1.31gb
1661: Evil and unrepentant sorcerer Baron Vitelius d'Estera (well played with suitably dour relish by Abel Salazar) gets burned at the stake for practicing witchcraft. Before he dies the Baron vows to return 300 years later to kill the descendants of his executioners. In 1961 a passing comet resurrects the Baron as a grotesquely malformed brain-eating humanoid beast with pointy ears, a swollen face, fangs, and a long forked tongue who embarks on a brutal rampage.
Capably directed by Chano Urueta, with a gloomy tone, a novel and inspired script by Federico Curiel and Adolfo Lopez Portillo, a steady pace, a lively ooga-booga shivery score by Gustavo Cesar Carrion, a gloriously hideous monster, several nifty quirky touches (the Baron keeps the cerebrums of his victims in an urn so he can snack on them!), stark, fairly polished black and white cinematography by Jose Ortiz Ramos, and solid acting from a cast that includes familiar south-of-the-border fright feature stalwarts German Robles, Luis Aragon and Ariadna Welter, this truly peculiar item makes for hugely entertaining viewing. The laughably hokey English dubbing and endearingly chintzy (not so) special effects only add to this picture's considerable loopy charm. A pleasingly offbeat one-of-a-kind weirdie.
Baron of Terror (1962)
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