Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of all the occupants killed in the accident.
Direction
Taboada's patient, unblinking eye—no score, no mercy
Acting
López Tarso's descent from everyman to something worse
Cinematography
Fog-drenched mountains that feel cursed by God
Director
Carlos Enrique Taboada
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Taboada is Mexico's forgotten horror master—this predates The Texas Chain Saw Massacre's rural dread by months, yet remains virtually unknown outside Latin America.
The film strips horror of supernatural comfort; the real terror is watching poverty transform ordinary men into something biblical and terrible.
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