CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1961
The Curse of the Doll People posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

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MOVIE1961 1h 22m MEX

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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Movie / 1962 / Fantasy / Horror

The Witch's Mirror

Why this pick

A compact, lurid Mexican supernatural revenge tale with occult rituals, cursed objects, and the same macabre melodramatic mood as The Curse of the Doll People.

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Black Pit of Dr. M

Why this pick

Its elegant black-and-white Mexican Gothic style, fatalistic atmosphere, and encounters with the uncanny make it a strong match for the earlier film’s spooky old-school texture.

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Why this pick

This delirious Mexican horror favorite pairs a centuries-old curse with vivid practical grotesquerie and brisk, pulp-driven revenge plotting.

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Movie / 1969 / Horror / Thriller / Drama / Fantasy

The Book of Stone

Why this pick

A quieter but deeply eerie Mexican chiller centered on a child’s unsettling imaginary world, building dread through suggestion rather than spectacle.

Even the Wind Is Afraid poster 05

Movie / 1968 / Fantasy / Drama / Horror / Thriller

Even the Wind Is Afraid

Why this pick

It shares the shadowy, classically composed Mexican horror sensibility, using a haunted setting and mounting supernatural menace with great restraint.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

The story surrounds four men who are cursed by a Haitian Vodou priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon after being surrounded, evil 'doll' people begin to kill their family members.

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