Carlos Valdemar Movies
As two families clash in a long-running land dispute, notorious gunman "El Gallo de Sinaloa" arrives on the scene to avenge the murder of his father in this south of the border action film starring Salvador Salinas and Rebeca Silva. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
The tense, Spanish-language drama Sangre de Valientes witnesses the tempestuous relationship between two families, The Altamirano and The Perez, driven to the absolute breaking point by the death of matriarch Señora Perez. This chain of events sends both families spiraling headfirst into an onslaught of bloody violence against one another; the only hope for a peaceful relationship may lie in the enduring friendship between the patriarchs, Señor Alfredo Altamirano and Señor Jose Guadalupe Perez. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- 2002
A ruthless criminal takes over an entire city, only to find his reign of power threatened by a special police force tasked with cleaning up the streets. In Peralvillo, Rudy the Devil is respected by few, but feared by all. No one in Peralvillo dares cross Rudy the Devil, and anyone who questions him is sure to suffer dire consequences. But as the citizens of Peralvillo resign themselves to the fact that Rudy the Devil is here to stay, a special task force arrives in town on a mission capture the criminals, and restore the peace. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 1988
In this routine adventure feature, Ramiro Caro (Rolando Fernandez) is an accused cocaine dealer who escapes from police after his capture. He is chased through cities and jungles by the lawmen who fall one by one at the hands of the wily Caro. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rolando Fernandez, Rosa Gloria Chagoyan, (more)
- 1987
In this action story, "Gatillo" ("Trigger") is a fast-on-the-draw agent of the U.S. anti-drug forces who has made a lifelong enemy in the person of a female drug-runner who has an underground den in Texas. Accompanied by his buddy Chato, he hunts down the bad guys. It turns out that the lady drug lord is the mother of Gatillo's son: she was forced to leave her pleasant life as a housewife when her husband found out about the affair, and she has nurtured a grudge against him ever since. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alvaro Zermeno, Ana Luisa Peluffo, (more)
When the daughter of a prominent politician becomes a kidnap victim, her cousins try to retrieve her and seek vengeance. The two heroes take action separate from the police operation to free the hostage in this routine crime drama. The shootout scene surprisingly lacks cinematic firepower. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sergio Goyri, Edgardo Gazcon, (more)
- 1987
In the U.S.-made films starring Charles Bronson, he is invariably an innocent and ordinary man who is forced by circumstances into fighting back against brutal thugs and official indifference. Many Mexican-made movies starring Eduardo Yanez cover much the same territory. In the story, Roca (Duran) is blithely making plans for his upcoming marriage and has gone to consult with his father about something. He discovers that his father, a banker, has been turning a blind (but knowledgeable) eye to Mafia doings for many years. He was willing to do this until the mob got involved in the drug trade, and now he must find some way to disappear. As it happens, the gangs get wind of the situation, and both men must go into hiding. When the Mafia kills the father, the son embarks on a one-man war. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Eduardo Yañez, Alfredo Leal, (more)
This action film is about drug dealers whose personalities are not that different than the police officers and narcotics agents out to get them. Yet the message, delivered repeatedly, is that drugs are bad and dealing in drugs is worse. Chief drug boss Ernesto Castro (Sergio Goyri) and his minions are the objects of one car chase after another, alternating with shoot-outs on a regular basis. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sergio Goyri, Rebeca Silva, (more)
- 1986
This vigilante flick features Eduardo Yanez as Yako and Diane Ferretti as his wife Diana. They are a honeymoon couple camping out in the woods alone, until a band of mountain brigands attacks them. The outlaws tie Yako to a tree and then gang-rape and murder his wife. After they leave, Yako exhibits more ingenuity than is usual for a soft city-dweller. He fashions his own weapons out of what he finds in the forest, and then he begins to methodically disarm the rapist-killers and wreak his revenge. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Eduardo Yañez, Diane Ferretti, (more)
- 1986
As a sequel to the popular Lola la Trailer, an action film about a female trucker, this tale focuses on Lola's (Rosa Gloria Chagoyan) drug-fighting, tough persona. The film is split between James Bond-style adventures that call for derring-do and hookers or homosexuals who provide the fodder for derisive comedy. Famed Mexican actor and director Emilio Fernandez, known as "El Indio," made his last cinematic appearance in this film, in the role of a police chief. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rosa Gloria Chagoyan, Rolando Fernandez, (more)
The popular brothers Fernando Almada and Mario Almada star in this tequila Western as Fernando and Mateo Trevino. Mateo has had a long rivalry with Texas sheriff Rene (Javier Garcia) over the heartstrings of Rene's wife, even calling into question who actually fathered Rene's young daughter. When a local cantina is attacked and all of its customers killed, the sheriff blames Mateo and throws him in jail. Fernando knows that his brother did not do it, and after a daring escape, the two brothers set out to rope in the real mastermind behind the massacre. Blood and gore flow freely all the way to the end credits. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Fernando Almada
- 1986
Christina Ruiz (Susana Dosamantes) is a psychiatrist who goes off the deep end when her husband and two children are killed after witnessing an armored car robbery by motorcycle thugs. A guilty conscience brings gang member Omar Mendoza (Andres Garcia Jr.) to her office asking for relief from his mental anguish, and Christina goes to a local church to thank God for bringing Omar to her. Without revealing her family were the murder victims, Christina sets out to kill each member for their participation in the crime. A tough veteran policeman (Pedro Armendariz) and a crusading crime reporter (Hugo Stiglitz) clash as they both follow-up on the murders and subsequent revenge. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Susana Dosamantes, Hugo Stiglitz, (more)
- 1985
In a bloody version of Wyatt Earp's shootout at the OK Corral, escalated several times over, this story substitutes a motorcycle gang for the outlaws, and the "Law" is represented not by a U.S. Marshal, but by two antagonistic men. Sheriff Ventura (Mario Almada) counsels his deputy Yunke (Javier Garcia) to ignore the motorcycle gang that just roared into town, because they are only going to shortly roar out of town on their own. Yunke ignores this advice, kills a gang member, and then frames a local citizen for the crime. This sets off a minor war, as the motorcyclists capture a school and a poolhall, and to make matters worse, they kill the young son of one of the town's policemen when the boy tries to escape from the school. What follows is a final and bloody showdown in which Sheriff Ventura and the gang's leader Vikingo (Jorge Reynoso) duel it out to the death.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mario Almada, Jorge Reynoso, (more)
This cheapo Mexican horror outing is set in Texas, filmed in Spanish, and centers upon a doctor who becomes a religious zealot after he dreams about the resurrection of the dead into the real world. He is certain that El Diablo is giving him a sign and that he will appear to bring them back on All Souls' Eve. To thwart Satan's plan, the demented doctor tries to gain custody of a certain corpse. Unbeknownst to him, six teenagers begin experimenting with a book of satanic spells and rituals in an old mansion set beside a cemetery. To enact their wicked mass, they head to the morgue and grab the corpse that the doctor wanted and then begin the ritual. Terror and tragedy follows when they succeed in not only reviving the corpse but every one else in the cemetery! To make matters worse, a group of children have wandered nearby, and the doctor must stop the blood thirsty zombies before it's too late. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hugo Stiglitz, Usi Velasco, (more)
"Names have been changed to protect the innocent" in this infamous fictionalization of the tragic mass suicide of 914 followers of Jim Jones' "People's Temple" in Guyana in the fall of 1978. Rev. James Johnson (Stuart Whitman) is a charismatic but deeply paranoid man of the cloth who moves his flock from Northern California to a settlement in Guyana, where he intends to create an interracial socialist utopia. Addicted to prescription drugs and convinced he is surrounded by enemies, Johnson rules his colony, "Johnsontown," with an iron fist, torturing anyone who violates his rule, seducing both women and men from his congregation, confiscating money and property from his followers, and forcing them to work long hours in the fields for meager rations. Lee O'Brien (Gene Barry), a California congressman who represents the district Johnson and his followers once called home, has received complaints from friends and relatives of the Johnsontown settlers, convinced something is wrong. O'Brien and a team of reporters fly to Guyana to find out the truth about what is happening; Johnson is convinced O'Brien has seen too much, and armed gunmen ambush his party before they can return to the United States (with a number of Johnsontown residents who wish to leave). After a failed attempt to arrange exile in the Soviet Union, Johnson convinced his followers to perform a "final revolutionary act" before authorities arrive. This oddball blend of fact and fiction also features Joseph Cotten and John Ireland as Johnson's lawyers, Yvonne de Carlo as Johnsontown's press officer, and Bradford Dillman as the doctor who mixes the punch for Johnson's final gathering. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Stuart Whitman, Gene Barry, (more)
The disaster genre gets the exploitation treatment in this gruesome tale of survival at sea from director René Cardona Jr. In the wake of a violent cyclone, the remaining passengers of a downed airplane find refuge on a passing boat carrying the survivors of a shipwreck. Without a clue where in the world they are, a shortage of food and water, and the surrounding waters teeming with man-eating sharks, the tensions are soon on the rise. El Ciclon was released in the U.S. as The Cyclone. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
