
The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
El Fantasma del Convento
When
Wed 10 Sep 2025
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Praised for its striking imagery and unnerving use of sound design, Fuentes’ haunted monastery tale has been widely lauded as one of the first great Mexican horror films.
Fast-tracked into production to capitalise on the success of a horror film co-scripted by Fuentes, 1933’s cult classic La Llorona, it was heavily inspired by the mummified bodies found in Museo de El Carmen, a former convent in Mexico City, resulting in a hauntingly dreamlike film that delves into the morbid and scandalous aspects of Catholicism, guilt, sin and dark desires.
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Australia's longest-running film society, Melbourne Cinémathèque screens significant works of international cinema in the medium they were created, the way they would have originally screened.
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