The Curse of the Doll People
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1961 Mexican film

Curse of the Doll PeopleDirected byBenito AlazrakiWritten byAlfredo SalazarProduced by

William Calderón Stell

Guillermo Calderón

Starring

Production

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Cinemagrafica Calderón

Release date

Running time

81 minutesCountryMexicoLanguageSpanish

The Curse of the Doll People (Spanish: Muñecos infernales lit. "Infernal Dolls"), or The Devil Doll Men, is a 1961 Mexican horror film directed by Benito Alazraki. It was produced by Cinematográfica Calderón S.A. The screenplay by Alfredo Salazar is an uncredited adaptation of the novel Burn Witch Burn! by A. Merritt.[1]

Plot

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

Cast

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Elvira Quintana as Karina

Ramón Gay as Dr. Armando Valdés

Roberto G. Rivera as Molinar

Quintin Bulnes as Zandor

Alfonso Arnold

Nora Veryán as Marta

Luis Aragón as Daniel

Jorge Mondragón as Luis

Salvador Lozano as Gilberto

Margarita Villegas as María, wife Luis

Norma Navarro as Anita

Xavier Loyá as Juan

Margarito Esparza as Muñeco (uncredited)

Chel López as Agente policía (uncredited)

Esther Martínez Peñate as Sirvienta (uncredited)

Consuelo Molina as Nurse (uncredited)

Gloria Oropeza as Nanny Rita (uncredited)

Release

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K. Gordon Murray imported the film to the US and added several English-language scenes.[2]

Reception

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Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle criticized the American import as incoherent.[2] Glenn Kay, who wrote Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide, called the film "a strictly by-the-numbers exercise that must have elicited more giggles than gasps on its release".[3]

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