Download or read book The Mexican Cinema of Darkness written by Doyle Greene and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-05-16 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following social upheaval and tragedy in 1968, Mexican horror cinema shifted away from masked wrester flicks and toward darker, more explicit films, which can be called avant-exploitation. This work covers six of those films, from 1968s El Topo to 1988s Santa Sangre.