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The Invasion of the Vampires (1963)

The Invasion of the Vampires poster
Original title
La invasión de los vampiros
Directed by
Miguel Morayta
Genre
horror film, mystery film, vampire film, thriller film
Country
Mexico
Runtime
1h 32m
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A vampire terrorizes a small Mexican town. A group of people must stop the undead creature before it claims more victims.

darksuspensefulmonochromecreepymoodymysteriousgothicslow-paced

What happens

The Invasion of the Vampires (Spanish: La invasión de los vampiros) is a 1963 Mexican horror mystery thriller film written and directed by Miguel Morayta, and starring Erna Martha Bauman, Rafael del Río, Tito Junco, Fernando Soto "Mantequilla", Bertha Moss and Carlos Agostí. This film is part of a duology of vampire films directed by Morayta, preceded by The Bloody Vampire (1962). An English-language dub version was released in 1965, produced by K. Gordon Murray for American International Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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