More Mexican horror from CasaNegra!

The Man and the Monster (El Hombre y el Monstruo, 1958, Mexico)
Directed by Rafael Baledón. With Enrique Rambal • Abel Salazar • Marta Roth • Deelia Guilmáin • Laura Baledón • José Chávez • Maricarmen Vela • Carlos Suárez

“One of the very best offerings from the weird world of Mexican horror and worthy of wider recognition." – The Spinning Image

Gothic horror, fun special effects and an inventive re-thinking of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story converge in The Man and The Monster, one of the most chilling and exciting classics in the annals of Mexico’s supernatural thrillers. Enrique Rambal portrays Samuel, a pianist so ambitious that he sells his soul to Satan in exchange for musical greatness. Every time Samuel plays the composition that wins him fame, fortune and adulation, he turns into a hideous beast with a lust for murder. To avoid transforming into a ferocious killer, all Samuel need do is refuse to play his signature song. But is he willing to sacrifice his own status as the world’s most acclaimed pianist?

The Man and the Monster is a one-of-a-kind blend of mature psychological terror and typical ‘50s creature-feature trappings.

Forget the lame, washed-up and unwatchable copy released years ago by Beverly Wilshire; CasaNegra presents this film in the finest form ever available anywhere! Doubt it? Then look at this nice screengrab!

Special Features:

* Original Uncut Version
* Completely Re-Mastered Picture & Sound from Newly Restored Vault Elements
* Bilingual Menus in English & Spanish
* Essay:
* Cast Biographies
* Original Theatrical Release Radio Spot
* Poster and Stills Gallery

Technical Info
85 Mins. B&W. Not Rated. 1:33.1 Original Aspect Ratio
Region 1-NTSC. Spanish Dolby Digital Mono 1.0. Optional English Subtitles

The Living Coffin (El Grito de la Muerte, 1958, Mexico)
Directed by Fernando Méndez. With Gastón Santos • María Duval • Quintín Bulnes • Pedro de Aguillón • Carlos Ancira • Carolina Barret • Antonio Raxel • Hortensia Santoveña

The Living Coffin: the curse of the crying woman wails on!

In this eerie atmospheric reinvention of a timeless Mexican legend and Edgar Allen Poe's classic The Premature Burial, a Cowboy (Gastón Santos) and his sidekick, Crazy Wolf (Pedro de Aguillón), stop at an eerie ranch to learn more of about a stone figure they've unearthed that depicts a crying woman.

The ranch's odd, off-kilter residents tell them that the statue, and another just like it, was created by the now-dead Clotilde (Carolina Barrett), whose ghost has been sighted by local villagers … crying.

Cowboy and Crazy Wolf are then pulled into an action-packed, spine-tingling web of supernatural spookery and desperados out to unearth a secret vein of gold. Along the way, the cross Skeleton Swamp and bodies pile up while, somehow, coffins keep disappearing.

CasaNegra is proud to present this Mexican horror classic uncut and in never-before-available pristine quality - that looks NOTHING AT ALL like the horrid, washed out, VHS-sourced Beverly Wilshire release. Just look at the screengrabs! So crack open the lid to The Living Coffin and settle back for a blast of vintage thrills!

Special Features:

* Original Uncut Version (as opposed to the heavily cut edition released with the K. Gordon Murray Collection)
* Completely Re-Mastered Picture & Sound from Newly Restored Vault Elements
* Bilingual Menus in English & Spanish
* Cast Biographies
* Original Theatrical Release Radio Spot
* Poster and Stills Gallery

Technical info
85 Mins. Color. Not Rated. 1:33.1 Original Aspect Ratio
Region 1-NTSC. Spanish Dolby Digital Mono 1.0. Optional English Subtitles