MEXSORCISMO: Death, Blood, and Identity
When we think of Mexican culture, it’s often filtered through clichés—Day of the Dead, mariachis, tequila, and tacos. But beyond the familiar lies a much deeper landscape: one shaped by colonial legacy, religious fervor, social inequality, magical thinking, and the shadow of everyday violence.
Mexsorcismo is a cinematic ritual—an exorcism of stereotypes. Through five provocative films, this series unearths the demons that haunt Mexican identity. Horror becomes the perfect vessel to explore cultural trauma, faith, folklore, family, and the dark corners of modern life in Mexico. From vampiric devices and unholy nuns to spectral motherhood and journalistic nightmares, these films present a Mexico both real and imagined—where horror is not just entertainment, but truth made myth.
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Art by Harbin Harrison.
Series Films
CRONOS (1992)
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
July 3, 2025
Guillermo del Toro’s visually lush debut reimagines the vampire myth through the story of an aging antiques dealer who discovers a golden scarab that grants eternal life—at a terrible cost. Cronos blends Catholic imagery, family devotion, and alchemical horror into something wholly original.
ALUCARDA (1977)
Directed by Juan López Moctezuma
July 10, 2025
A fiery, hallucinatory vision of demonic possession, Alucarda follows two orphaned girls in a convent who fall under a satanic influence. What begins as friendship descends into hysteria, blood rituals, and exorcism. Alucarda plunges into Mexico’s tangled relationship with Catholicism—its repression, spectacle, and violence—while offering a radical take on female agency.
HUESERA: THE BONE WOMAN (2022)
Directed by Michelle Garza Cervera
July 17, 2025
A crime photojournalist develops a mysterious illness that makes him vanish piece by piece—physically and spiritually. His journey into Mexico City’s underworld becomes a descent into madness and mortality. This film exposes the cost of witnessing horror for a living.
SANTA SANGRE (1989)
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
July 31, 2025
A former circus boy—now an asylum inmate—relives his traumatic childhood under the spell of his fanatical, armless mother. Santa Sangre is a dreamlike explosion of violence, religion, and Freudian nightmare. Jodorowsky’s cult classic explores madness, control, and identity through surreal horror.
