Curandero

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Audience Member Curandero (2005) Eduardo Rodriguez's bloody Mexican horror movie starring Carlos Gallardo (who was in Robert Rodriguez's "El Mariachi" from 1992). Robert Rodriguez is the producer. This movie mixes Mexican black magic, Mexican cartels, and the police. Rodriguez plays it as a perfect B movie. There's lots of flashes of blood, gore, violence (and a flash of T & A) in the same washed-out color. Don Carlos (Gallardo) is a young man in a small Mexican village. His late father by the same name (Jose Carlos Ruiz) was one of the Curanderos, a type of folk healer or medicine man; sort of a shaman. Although the young Don Carlos doesn't exactly share his Father's beliefs, he does seem to share his visions of evil around him. A Mexico City police detective, Magdalena (Gizeht Galatea) is looking for Don Carlos to help her cleanse the jail and police station that has been left in a bloody unholy mess when a mass murderer/gangster escapes. Everyone seems to doubt the existence while at the same time fearfully believing in all of this evil, including Don Carlos himself. If you're a big fan of horror and the crazy pacing of a Robert Rodriguez style movie, then you'll have good time with this one. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie was great. A slightly confusing plot. It's a foreign film, Mexican. Full subtitles. The biggest issue with the film is literally the simplest, the subtitles are yellow on black which are difficult to read in the daytime segments. The plot US pretty solid and good. Acting good. Dialogue is fine. It's a different film, feels kind of original. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member 79% Mexicans and Satanism, I was crappin' my pants. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member 31 Days of Horror (2013): #12 Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Eduardo Rodriguez is a Venezuelan horror filmmaker, whose movie Curandero (loosely: a healer) is a telltalle about the deepest bowels of Mexican superstition and black magic. Based on Roberto Rodriguez's (not related) story, Curandero: Rise of the demon is an imaginative, creatively powerful, beautifully filmed and extremely gory account of a travel through the dark parts of a suggestively godly soul. Well worth a watch, but the biggest problems are the slow pacing and chaotic genre mixing. Excellent art production and score. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member I can see why this sat on the shelf for a few years before going straight-to-dvd, because it's not that good. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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