Rafael Hernandez Movies

Gregorio is set in Peru, where an impoverished rural family hopes to improve its lot in the big city of Lima. The squalor of ghetto life is hardly relieved by the back-breaking, low-paying jobs open to the family's father. In the tradition of DeSica's Shoeshine, Gregorio, the youngest son, tries to find work in the streets, but this serves only to drive a wedge between himself and his mother. Eventually, Gregorio, cut off from his family and everything he holds dear, descends into juvenile delinquency. Gregorio was a joint effort of the Group Chaski, an aggregation of Peruvian documentary filmmakers: hence, the presence of six names in the director's credits. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Chosen by the leaders of his political party to stand for election, in this satire, Gundisalvo is a building developer with next to no interest in politics. He prefers eating well and making love with his mistress to the hurly-burly of campaigning. Still, duty is duty, and he methodically practices his cliche-filled speeches at home, at first afflicting his maid and butler with them and later reciting them to groups gathered on the street who are paid to listen. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

This Japanese/Spanish co-produced, bizarre mish-mash of genres has hints of everything from The Beguiled to Eating Raoul. Director Jacinto Molina (using the pseudonym "Paul Naschy") plays a mercenary who double-crosses his partner/girlfriend Meiko and gets shot for his troubles. Falling unconscious, he is taken in by a wealthy doctor, Don Simon, who has two beautiful daughters, Alicia and Monica. His recuperation is slow, and in the meantime he is seduced by both daughters and apparently haunted by the ghost of their mother. Then there's a veterinarian who gets bludgeoned by an unseen stalker and eaten alive by pigs. It turns out that Naschy is being fattened up for slaughter by the family, whose members learned cannibalism from their servant Rachel's dad while living in Africa. The ghost turns out not to be a ghost at all, but Don Simon's third daughter, who went mad and would not join the family in their new tastes. She ends up shooting everyone, but not until Naschy has been bled and butchered. This is a very confusing film with some really silly moments, like the jungle drums on the soundtrack whenever there's a close-up of the black Rachel's rear end. It's certainly a change from Molina's usual self-pitying werewolf roles, but whether that's a good thing or not is left to the viewer to decide. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

In this thriller, Actress Carmen Sevilla plays a housewife living in a small apartment building with a bad neighbor problem. Her husband (Fernando Cebrian) has gone off on a trip, as has the husband of her sexy upstairs neighbor (Patty Shepherd). Her landlord (Dean Selmier), who lives downstairs, constantly photographs both women, when he is not fussing over his dogs and pigs. When she hears heavy footsteps in the apartment above her, she is worried. Does her neighbor have a lover? What about her husband, supposedly off on a business trip? When she makes a grisly discovery about her neighbor's husband, her troubles are just beginning. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide