Adriana Roel, Claudio Brook, David Silva

On the heels of her parents' deaths, Justine (Susana Kamini) enters a convent and strikes up an intense friendship with her enigmatic roommate, Alucarda (Tina Romero). When the duo's outing into the n...( read more  read more... )earby forest brings an unearthly, malevolent presence into the nunnery, can anyone drive out the invading evil?

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R, 91 min.

Directed by: Juan López Moctezuma

Release Date: January 26, 1978

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DVD Release Date: March 29, 2005

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  • September 3, 2009
    Alucarda is one of the more striking and shocking Mexican gothic fests from the golden age of cinematic sleaze. Complete with nuns, devil worship, blood baths, and sadistic religious fanaticism, this is one destined for late night viewing. Fans of Alejandro Jodorowsky will be ab...( read more)le to really enjoy some of the shocking beauty in its ugliness.

    Alucarda is extremely original in its delivery and was also quite an influential film as well. One scene that stands out will seem oddly familiar to those who have seen the film Firestarter, and even more so DePalma's Carrie. Both of which were made AFTER Alucarda. One gains a true appreciation for the craft of filmmaking seeing these familiar scenes presented here for the first time.
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  • March 17, 2008
    I can't honestly remember much about this, but I know I didn't like it. I seem to recall a lot of hysterical screaming and some interesting art direction. The women are not attractive enough to make the nudity titillating, but that doesn't necessarily mean that this is art rather...( read more) than exploitation.
  • October 16, 2008
    This film is insane.
    It's also creepy, angry, confused, only half makes sense, and may actually be brilliant.
    This little ditty about possesion and all the fun stuff that goes along with it is really unlike anything you've ever seen. One can not argue that the set design is amazi...( read more)ng, as well as Moctezuma's shot and sequence composition being impeccable.
    The story has it's weaknesses and it's laughable moment, but what it doesn't do is bore you. It get right into it, in spite of logic, and as long as you allow yourself to go along with it, gives you one hell of an experience.
    If anything this film makes me want to watch the hell out of Juan L. Moctezuma's cannon and as well check out some other Mexican horror selections of the 70s.
  • January 4, 2008
    Another awesome Mondo Macabro release. Young girls are tempted by Satan in a nunnery... just don't read the title backwards if you don't want to know what happens.
  • September 4, 2009
    A Mexican entry in the nunsploitation genre that was on its way out by the time of this release. A couple of orphan girls (who are supposed to be 15 but are probably 10 years older than that) who have a lesbian relationship live at a convent and are playing one day when they come...( read more) upon some gypsies in the forest. They buy some trinkets from the gyps and return to convent to study the bible. In bible study they start saying some cool shit, so they are subjected to an exorcism. One of the girls dies during the ceremony as a doctor arrives who admonishes the nuns for reacting so primitively. Then all hell breaks loose. Worth a watch, but don't worry if you miss this one.
  • September 3, 2009
    If you are a gore hound you will love this. Plus there are lots of nudity and is very funny. I enjoyed the hell out of this one. I did have a verry strange dream because of this movie. Evoking the name of satan can be very eerie especially when it's so casual.
  • September 3, 2009
    I really cannot say what made me like this. I think it was the atmosphere I was in when i saw it first, so I'll have to see it again on my own time to give it a proper opinion.
  • September 3, 2009
    Lots of female screams?....Check!
    Buckets of Fake Blood?.....Check!
    Nudity...lots?...Check!
    Satan in goat outfit?...Check!
    Orphanage/Convent?...Check!

    This movie has passed the "Jesus Garcia Badass Validation" and is certified as 'Badass World Cinema Cult Classic". Please sit b...( read more)ack, turn the volume wayyyy up and yell "Bee--ahhh--lzebub, Beeeellllphegor, Azraaaagtawwwwth"..with a deliciously 'witchy' 18 year old Alucarda..

    Watch closely and you will see a very young Edith Gonzalez among the girls in the church.
  • September 3, 2009
    Quieres vender tu alma?
  • September 3, 2009
    When justine's mother and father dies, she is sent of to an orphanage in a convent.
    As soon as she sets foot in the place things start to go wrong.
    First of she befriends the only person in the convent wearing nothing but black.
    You can tell right away that that is someone to sta...( read more)y the fuck away from, but no.
    Before day one is over, the girls has already rolled in the gras togheter, defiled a grave, confesed their love for each other, met the devil and submited to a blood-pact.
    This is a scream-fest, with lots of blood and nudity.

    My babygirl will be named Alucarda(in her face)

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