• Rating:
• Genre: Horror
• Movie Type: Gothic Film
• Director: Juan Ibañez
• Release Year: 1968
• Country: MX
• Run Time: 89 minutes

Plot

One of four low-budget Mexican horror productions to star an ailing Boris Karloff in a supporting (but top-billed) role, this odd little number features the horror legend as the dying forebear of an eccentric family, whose heirs descend like vultures on his palatial home when they learn of his impending demise... which apparently occurs shortly after their arrival. Little do they realize that their plucky patriarch has laid some elaborate traps for them, employing his collection of life-size automatons. The cast wanders about through dimly-lit sets for what seems like an eternity before being slain by the wind-up robots in a variety of gory ways, but the violent, bloody climax comes far too late to rescue viewers from the endless drudgery. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide

Cast

Manuel Alvarado - Morgenstern Morteval
Arturo Fernandez - Fodor
Julissa
Boris Karloff
Angel Espinosa
Beatriz Baz - Cordelia Rash
Quintin Bulnes - Ivar Morteval
Andrés García
Jack Hill

Credit

Raul Dominguez - Cinematographer; Juan Ibañez - Director; Juan Ibañez - Producer; Austin McKinney - Cinematographer; Luis Enrique Vergara - Producer; Luis Enrique Vergara - Screenwriter; Alice Uretta - Composer (Music Score); Jack Hill - Director; Jack Hill - Screenwriter; August Strindberg - Play Author

Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave
  Synonym: danse macabre

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