Blacker Than the Night

Más Negro que la Noche
Blacker Than the Night
Más Negro que la Noche; Blacker Than the Night
	DVD cover
Directed by	Carlos Enrique Taboada
Written by	Carlos Enrique Taboada
Starring	Claudia Islas; Lucía Méndez; Susana Dosamantes; Helena Rojo
Release date	1975;
Running time	96 minutes
Language	Spanish

Más Negro que la Noche (Blacker Than Night) is a 1975 Mexican supernatural horror film, written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada.^[1]

Plot

The film is about four women that move to a creepy house, inherited by one of them from an old aunt; as a condition, they must take care of the aunt's pet, a black cat. One day they find the cat dead. Soon after, Aurora's dead body is found hanging upside down in the library by Ofelia due to a heart attack. One night, a half drunken Pilar comes to the house. As she is walking to the steps she sees the ghost of Susana and falls to her death on the floor breaking her neck. Now Ofelia and Marta are the only ones left in the house. Marta tells Ofelia that Aurora had killed the cat along with her and Pilar, and that she knows that she is next. Ofelia tells her to get away from the house and she runs to open the gate for her boyfriend. They find Marta impaled with several knitting needles on her chest. As a sobbing Ofelia and her boyfriend are leaving the house, the cat's meowing is heard in house.

Cast

Claudia Islas - Ofelia
Susana Dosamantes - Aurora
Lucía Méndez - Marta
Helena Rojo - Pilar
Julián Pastor - Pedro
Alicia Palacios - Sofia
Pedro Armendáriz Jr. - Roberto
Tamara Garina [es] - Tia Susana

Release

The film premiered on December 25, 1975 in Mexico^[2] and was released in the late 1970s as Blacker Than the Night.^[3]

Remake

In 2014, Henry Bedwell directed a remake of the film, this time with an English release title of Darker Than Night.^[4]

Notes

^ "Mas negro que la noche". 23 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2019-11-17. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
^ Cinefania Review
^ Revista Fantastique Review Archived April 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
^ "Darker than the Night". 23 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2019-11-15. Retrieved 2019-11-15.

External links

Blacker Than the Night at IMDb

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[1] "Mas negro que la noche". 23 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2019-11-17. Retrieved 2019-11-15.

[2] Cinefania Review

[3] Revista Fantastique Review Archived April 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine

[4] "Darker than the Night". 23 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2019-11-15. Retrieved 2019-11-15.

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