Juan López Moctezuma
- Directing
- January 1, 1932 · Mexico City, Mexico
- August 2, 1995
Biography
Juan López Moctezuma (1929 – August 2, 1995) was a Mexican film director and actor. He was born in Mexico City in 1929.[1] During his career he directed five films, all in the genres of Gothic horror and suspense: The Mansion of Madness (1972), Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1974), To Kill a Stranger (1983), El Alimento del Miedo (1994), and his most recognized and controversial work, Alucarda (1978), which tells the story of a satanic possession in a Catholic convent. In 1993 he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Mexico City because of Alzheimer's disease. He died on August 2, 1995.
Known for
Filmography
- Alucardos: Portrait of a Vampire · Self
- The Food of Fear · Don Ramón, Writer
- The Stork's Mistake · Cura
- Welcome Maria · Director, Writer
- To Kill a Stranger · Albert Morell, Screenplay
- Alucarda · Writer, Director
- Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary · Director
- Adios, amor...
- The Mansion of Madness · Director, Writer
- Fando and Lis · Producer
- El Topo · Associate Producer
- Someone Wants to Kill Us!