Trash-Mex Podcast season 2, episode 11 “ Es Un “Giallo”?: El Profeta Mimi (1973) A discussion with Jim Branscome of Cinematic Void is now streaming on ALL of your preferred podcast platforms: RSS ,  Spotify ,  Apple Podcasts ,  YouTube ,  Amazon Music ,  Podcast Index ,  Podbean ,  Audacy   It is January Giallo and apparently a lot of people like to claim the renowned Ignacio Lopez Tarso film El Profeta Mimi (1973) is a Mexican “Giallo” film, but is it really? Hosts Joey &

It was a promise a man had made to his dying mother. What would have just been a long quest to the La Villa De Guadalupe , ended up becoming a dangerous run for his own survival!  After the death of his mother— Pancracio (Agustin Bernal) is to fulfill her dying wish which is to bring her big portrait of La Virgen De Guadalupe to La Villa in Mexico City. Pancracio makes his journey solely by walking and sometimes jogging like a Nintendo 64 video game character. When Pancraci

Claudia (Edna Bolkan)  suffers from Schizophrenia. Her illness has ruined her marriage because it has lead her to believe that her husband has cheating on her with other women, but in reality he wasn't at all. Claudia files for divorce and takes the kids with her, but they get to see their father every little while. When Claudia is alone at home, she begins to see a creepy woman in black creeping up on her. This creepy woman in black wants to kill Claudia & even leads Claudia

During a Solar Eclipse, an ill pregnant woman  (Alicia Encinas)  gives birth to twin boys that are conjoined. The woman dies after the painful & unusual birth. 7 years later, the twin boys  Fred  and Eric (Luis Mario Quiroz in dual roles)  are kept away hidden from the town by their father,  Sheriff Frederick Jackson (Eric Del Castillo) . After keeping them away for so long, Sheriff Jackson convinces the town doctor  (Mario Almada)  to separate them so they can all live a nor

In Mexico City's  Cine Opera , lives a strange man named  Erick (Gerardo Vigil)   who wanders around the theatre and reads  Oscar Wilde  poems. No one seems to know that Erick lives in the theatre except a young boy who accompanies his mother while she rehearses a dance routine for an upcoming stage show. While Erick reads his poems and while the dancers rehearse, a psychopath is on the loose in the theatre. His victims are the female dancers who prepare to go home after rehe

Greed. Lust. Lycanthropy. Blood. Welcome to  Colmillos: El Hombre Lobo  (aka "Fangs: The Werewolf") . A man named  Cristobal (Miguel Angel Rodriguez)  longs to be wealthy and to be with the beautiful  Susana (Olivia Collins) . Of course, he feels he has no chance at getting with her since he is no rich man like his rival  Roman   (Jose Elias Romano) . After finishing up working at the horse stable, Cristobal runs into a mysterious woman called  Tara (Julieta Rosen)  who hands

Gym class was always the worst. You have to run first thing every morning, play a sport or do an exercise that you weren’t even good at, the cute as hell girl you like in the class wouldn’t give you the time of day & the more athletic boys were annoyingly competitive at everything in the class. That’s pretty much what  Resucitare Para Matarlos   (aka "Resurrected To Kill")  is all about, except someone dies and they come back... For revenge. Meet  Juan Carlos   (Andreas Pears

You know who's gorgeous & awesome?  Lina Santos ! You know what makes Lina Santos more gorgeous & awesome? Getting possessed by an evil witch in  Seduccion Sangrienta ! In  Seduccion Sangrienta  (aka "Bloody Seduction") , the gorgeous & awesome  Lina Santos  plays  Martha , a wife to a rich man. Martha's birthday is coming up, so her husband searches high & low for a really special gift to give her. He then finds an antique shop which carries lots of wonderful things Martha w

After witnessing a priest being murdered with a pointy silver & gold crucifix, little  Pedro  swears in the House of God that he will kill the assassins and all sinners in town. Years later, Pedro grows up. He helps around at a new church, and dresses up as a Sacristan   at night to kill sinners with that old silver & gold crucifix. People around town are being killed by this fake Sacristan. The cops search hard for clues leading to the identity of the killer Sacristan. El Sa

I learned a few things from watching  A Golpe De Hacha : First, pizza in Mexico is pronounced  "pisa" . If your cat gets chopped up with a hatchet, then you will automatically receive $20,000 pesos in your checking account the following day. If your best friend, the local priest, and your boss get killed with a hatchet, then you will also receive $20,000 pesos for each dead person. Also, if a guy with big hands starts flirting with you at work, then he clearly wants to date y

Before you weirdly ask: “is this a slasher?”,  yes this this is a slasher movie.  “How sharp is the weapon? What kind of weapon is it?” , the weapon is a hatchet and it is sharp enough to chop up innocent 80’s Mexican youngsters. The hatchet should hit you next if you keep asking more questions (just kidding, sort of) . Vacaciones Sangrientas  plays out very simply like any other slasher movie from the 80’s. A group of young adults head out to the woods for a nice little vaca

Sergio Goyri is a vampire. It seems like an odd thing to say, huh? Had anyone told me that a while back, I’m not sure what the hell people would've been talking about, but now that I have seen it with my own 2 eyes, I believe it. Fuck. Symphony No. 11 in G Minor, The Year 1905: Eternal Memory plays as the opening credits roll & then we catch a glimpse of a very spooky mansion at night where a vampire named Dracul (Sergio Goyri) shows off his fangs and is ready to attack on

In  Endemoniado  (aka "Demonized") ,   a   psychiatrist meets with a small group of people who claim they have been victims of demonic atrocities. He tells the group he cannot help them with these kinds of things since he can only help them mentally wise, but being the  helpful  person that he is, decides to bring them all to a church for a good ol’ exorcism or two. In this case, 3 of them. El Troll A woman goes to a witch for help with her drunken husband. She wants him to q

A young thug called  El Maya (Alan Ciangherotti)  and his group of goons kidnap women around town for money, but as of lately El Maya has gone super weird since he’s gotten involved in brujería and has been killing the kidnapped women for sacrifices to  “El Maestro” (the devil I guess) . The body count rises up very high and it’s up to a cop named  Rodrigo (Jorge Aldama)  along with his partner (that he’s totally banging) to find the killer before more innocent women are ki

Police detective  Sergio (Sergio Goyri)  and his wife  Cynthia   (Cynthia Torach)  are a married couple on the rocks. Cynthia feels neglected by Sergio because he spends most of his time at work investigating hard cases & hardly ever being home. Sergio’s partner at work  Ramirez (Andres Garcia Jr)  is also having marital problems and it’s gotten so bad that his wife ends up leaving him to go stay at a spiritual haven that promises  "relaxation"  & "peace". The haven is owned

As you know by now  (unless you're a square) , I'm a big fan of  Jorge Reynoso . I've watched many movies of his and seen him face off just about everything and every one. In  Guerreros Diabolicos   (aka "Diabolical Warriors" ) , Jorge Reynoso and your dad with his amazing hair-do investigate bizarre murders & kidnappings done by an evil satanic cult. Apparently this cult goes around kidnapping women and sacrificing them. Most of these murders seem to happen in public places

“I am the new Messiah” says Carlos (Jorge Reynoso) who was in court for the murder of his wife & 2 sons. Carlos is found guilty for the murders but declared legally insane, so he’s sent to a mental institution where he gets electric shock treatment that puts him in a vegetative state. Dr. Veronica Arizmendi (Edith Gonzalez) is assigned to treat Carlos and she sees Carlos as a man with a damaged brain that can actually be fixed—much like a computer that can be repaired. Dr. A

During the era of The Battle of Ciudad Juárez, A yankee colonel wearing an all white outfit & with a lame hat is ready to duel with a masked bandit wearing all black clothing & a cool as fuck Texana that has a silver skull on it. The man in white wins the duel and dons the Texana since that lame hat he was wearing before wasn’t cutting it. A ghostly woman in white covering her face in a vail walks by the winner of the duel and he chases after her. When he takes the vail off,

A little boy named  Pedro  has witnessed his alcoholic hooker mom getting killed by her pimp. Fortunately for Pedro, a rich woman adopts him after what’s happened and raises him in a loving & caring home where he forgets all the bad things he had gone through prior. The now grown Pedro  (Julio Aguirre)  is a successful lawyer and is engaged to be married to a gorgeous wealthy girl  (Claudia Guzman)  and it all seems to be going very well for him up until he witnesses a stage

Trash-Mex Podcast season 2, episode 7: “Oye Bro ¿Es Un Slasher?” Part III is now available to listen on all of your preferred podcast platforms: RSS ,  Spotify ,  Apple Podcasts ,  YouTube ,  Amazon Music ,  Podcast Index ,  Podbean ,  Audacy   Our Mexican slasher episode series: Oye Bro ¿Es Un Slasher? III (part 3) is now available to listen on ALL podcast platforms! From CDMX to San Antonio, Texas! In episode 3 of “Oye Bro ¿Es Un Slasher?”, Joey & Armando cut into: A Garro