Mexican Film

After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region.

The novelist who wrote The Grapes of Wrath and the director who produced Crisis and Lights Out in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but The Forgotten Village is unique among them in that the text was written before a single picture was shot.

Nerdy Ned is now one of the most popular adult film stars in the country. In his latest role he is costarring alongside the sexy Latina actress Angel Lopez, filming a spicy hotel maid scene. Read his story here. Room Service is book 5 of the Confessions of an Adult Film Star erotica series. This standalone interracial LWBM short story can be read with or without reading the other stories in the series. It is 2,800 words long and is for mature readers only.

Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. She's all-but-invisible to her best friend Tristán. Then Tristán discovers his new neighbour is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he has a way to change their lives - even if his tales of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed.

A review of the horror western film in Mexican cinema, with reference to specific series and recurring casts and production staffers. Why did these films succeed in finding an audience when similar films produced in Hollywood generally proved be less effective in both their scripting and at the box office?