Mexican horror loves to get crazy. While subtlety is nice, there’s nothing quite like an over-the-top, toss all the rules out the window and see what happens kind of movie. Alucarda is a sinister nun movie with the expected satanism, but also some vampirism. Think Robert Rodriguez, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Jodorowsky. Now throw in Paul Verhoeven, Ken Russell’s The Devils and Hausu and you have some idea what to expect from this film. Running just under 80 minutes, Alucarda never runs out of steam. No deep meanings, just an all-out button-pushing blitz on religious imagery, with a gleeful abundance of blood and nudity. Some of the details are hard to follow but the overall hyperactive sensationalism is exciting.
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