Juan López Moctezuma

Born: 1932-01-01, Mexico City, Mexico

Died: 1995-08-02

Biography

Juan López Moctezuma (1929 – August 2, 1995) was a Mexican film director and actor. He was born in Mexico City in 1929.[1] During his career he directed five films, all in the genres of Gothic horror and suspense: The Mansion of Madness (1972), Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1974), To Kill a Stranger (1983), El Alimento del Miedo (1994), and his most recognized and controversial work, Alucarda (1978), which tells the story of a satanic possession in a Catholic convent. In 1993 he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Mexico City because of Alzheimer's disease. He died on August 2, 1995.

Filmography

• Welcome Maria (1986)
• Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas (1977)
• Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975)
• To Kill a Stranger (1986)
• To Kill a Stranger (1986)
• La mansión de la locura (1973)
• Alguien nos quiere matar (1970)
• El alimento del miedo (1994)
• El alimento del miedo (1994)
• Se equivocó la cigüeña (1993)
• Adios, amor... (1973)