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El Fantasma del Convento (1934)

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El Fantasma del Convento

Fernando de Fuentes | Mexico | 1934 | Unclassified (15+)
Film

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.

Format: DCP
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Source: Mexican Film Archive
Courtesy: Permanencia Voluntaria
Runtime: 85 mins

Event duration

85 mins

Rating

Unclassified (15+)

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

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