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'''''La Casa del Terror''''' (translation: ''House of Terror'') is a 1960 [[Mexico|Mexican]] [[Monster movie]] starring Mexican comedian [[Tin Tan]] and [[Lon Chaney Jr.]]
'''''La Casa del Terror''''' (translation: ''House of Terror'') is a 1959<ref>Cotter, Robert Michael (2005). "The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography". McFarland and Co. Inc. ISBN 0-7864-2022-7. Page 40</ref><ref>Cotter, Robert Michael (2005). "The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography". McFarland and Co. Inc. {{ISBN|0-7864-2022-7}}. Page 41</ref> [[Mexico|Mexican]] [[Monster movie]] starring Mexican comedian [[Tin Tan]] and [[Lon Chaney Jr.]]


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The film was shot in Mexico in 1959<ref name="auto">Smith, Don G. (1996). "Lon Chaney Jr.". McFarland & Co., Inc. {{ISBN|0-7864-0120-6}}. Page 147</ref>. Lon Chaney Jr. traveled to Mexico in 1959 to star in this Tin-Tan horror/comedy.<ref name="auto"/>. It was directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares (who also wrote the story)<ref name="cotter40" />. Juan García and Fernando de Fuentes co-wrote the screenplay with Solares.<ref name="cotter40" /> It was released on 24 March 1960 in Mexico. <ref>https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/la_casa_del_terror_house_of_terror?</ref>
The film was shot in Mexico in 1959<ref name="auto">Smith, Don G. (1996). "Lon Chaney Jr.". McFarland & Co., Inc. {{ISBN|0-7864-0120-6}}. Page 147</ref>. Lon Chaney Jr. traveled to Mexico in 1959 to star in this Tin-Tan horror/comedy.<ref name="auto"/>. It was directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares (who also wrote the story)<ref name="cotter40" />. Juan García and Fernando de Fuentes co-wrote the screenplay with Solares.<ref name="cotter40" />


The werewolf transformation effects in the film were very similar to those in the Universal Wolf Man movies, with Chaney having to hold his face still while the slow dissolves turn him into a monster.<ref name="auto1">Smith, Don G. (1996). "Lon Chaney Jr.". McFarland & Co., Inc. {{ISBN|0-7864-0120-6}}. Page 148</ref> The special effects were handled by Jorge Benavides<ref name="cotter40" />.
The werewolf transformation effects in the film were very similar to those in the Universal Wolf Man movies, with Chaney having to hold his face still while the slow dissolves turn him into a monster.<ref name="auto1">Smith, Don G. (1996). "Lon Chaney Jr.". McFarland & Co., Inc. {{ISBN|0-7864-0120-6}}. Page 148</ref> The special effects were handled by Jorge Benavides<ref name="cotter40" />.

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La Casa del Terror
Original Mexican theatrical release poster
Directed byGilberto Martínez Solares
Written byFernando de Fuentes
Juan García
Gilberto Martínez Solares
Produced byFernando de Fuentes hijo
StarringTin-Tan
Yolanda Varela
Lon Chaney Jr.
Yerye Beirute
CinematographyRaúl Martínez Solares
Edited byCarlos Savage
Music byLuis Demetrio
Release date
March 24, 1960
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

La Casa del Terror (translation: House of Terror) is a 1959[1][2] Mexican Monster movie starring Mexican comedian Tin Tan and Lon Chaney Jr.

Plot

Casimiro (Tin Tan), the night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, has been napping more frequently on the job because his boss, Professor Sebastian (Yerye Beirute)[3], is secretly draining blood from him while he sleeps to use in his experiments in raising the dead, experiments conducted in his hidden laboratory behind the wax museum. The mad doctor's attempts haven't worked so far, and the bodies of his failures have been covered in wax and placed in the museum to cover his crimes. The professor learns that the mummified body of a man (Lon Chaney Jr.) has been found preserved in an Egyptian sarcophagus. The professor and his two henchmen steal the body of the mummy and take it back to his lab - but after the mummy is unwrapped, they fail to revive him. After the doctor and his men leave the lab that night, a bolt of lightning reactivates the equipment and provides the surge needed to revive the dead man. As he struggles to awareness, the clouds outside part, the full moon shines on his face through a window, and the resurrected corpse transforms into a werewolf! Casimiro sees the creature wandering around the museum, but no one will believe him, not even his girlfriend, Paquita (Yolanda Varela)[3]. When the professor and his men return, the werewolf kills one of his henchmen, and the Wolf Man is imprisoned in a cage inside the lab. He later escapes and lopes off to the nearest park, where he strangles and bites a few innocent people. The werewolf winds up at Paquita's apartment, and Casimiro arrives there just in time to see his girlfriend being abducted. He bravely follows them back to the wax museum and after witnessing the werewolf brutally slay Professor Sebastian, Casimiro gets the jump on the werewolf and beats him to death with a burning torch. The museum and lab catch fire, and the werewolf's body is immolated in the flames.

Cast

  • Tin-Tan as Casimiro
  • Yolanda Varela as Paquita
  • Lon Chaney Jr. as The Mummy/ Werewolf
  • Yerye Beirute as the professor
  • Raymond Gaylord
  • Consuelo Guerrero de Luna
  • Rafael Estrada
  • Mario Sevilla
  • Alfredo Wally Baron
  • Dacia Gonzalez
  • Jose Silva
  • Jose Luis Aguirre[3]

Production

The film was shot in Mexico in 1959[4]. Lon Chaney Jr. traveled to Mexico in 1959 to star in this Tin-Tan horror/comedy.[4]. It was directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares (who also wrote the story)[3]. Juan García and Fernando de Fuentes co-wrote the screenplay with Solares.[3]

The werewolf transformation effects in the film were very similar to those in the Universal Wolf Man movies, with Chaney having to hold his face still while the slow dissolves turn him into a monster.[5] The special effects were handled by Jorge Benavides[3].

Jerry Warren commented (in an interview with Tom Weaver) "He (Chaney) didn't like doing this kind of film. He didn't like being classified as a werewolf at all. ....He wanted to be Lon Chaney, not the sort of character whose faced changed.....but in Hollywood, people do the things they have to do." [6]

In 1965, producer Jerry Warren bought the film and combined footage from La Casa del Terror with footage from another 1950s Mexican film, La Momia Azteca, in order to create a hybrid film which he released as Face of the Screaming Werewolf.[5] He edited out almost all of the Tin-Tan comedy footage from the picture, leaving mostly just the Lon Chaney-related horror footage, then combined that with sequences taken from La Momia Azteca, together with some new footage he filmed himself.[3]

La Casa del Terror was released on DVD in 2007 by Laguna Films.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ Cotter, Robert Michael (2005). "The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography". McFarland and Co. Inc. ISBN 0-7864-2022-7. Page 40
  2. ^ Cotter, Robert Michael (2005). "The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography". McFarland and Co. Inc. ISBN 0-7864-2022-7. Page 41
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Cotter, Robert Michael (2005). "The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography". McFarland and Co. Inc. ISBN 0-7864-2022-7. Page 40
  4. ^ a b Smith, Don G. (1996). "Lon Chaney Jr.". McFarland & Co., Inc. ISBN 0-7864-0120-6. Page 147
  5. ^ a b Smith, Don G. (1996). "Lon Chaney Jr.". McFarland & Co., Inc. ISBN 0-7864-0120-6. Page 148
  6. ^ Weaver,Tom (1988). "Interviews with B science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers". McFarland & Co., Inc. Page 378
  7. ^ "La Casa del Terror at AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
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