The Curse of the Doll People

Curse of the Doll People
Curse of the Doll People
Directed by	Benito Alazraki
Written by	Alfredo Salazar
Produced by	Guillermo Calderón Stell; Guillermo Calderón;
Starring	Elvira Quintana; Ramón Gay; Roberto G. Rivera;
Production; company	Cinemagrafica Calderón
Release date	1961;
Running time	81 minutes
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish

The Curse of the Doll People (Spanish: Muñecos infernales lit. "Infernal Dolls"), or The Devil Doll Men, is a 1961 Mexican horror film directed by Benito Alazraki. It was produced by Cinematográfica Calderón S.A. The screenplay by Alfredo Salazar is an uncredited adaptation of the novel Burn Witch Burn! by A. Merritt.^[1]

Plot

The story surrounds four men who are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon after being surrounded, evil 'doll' people begin to kill their family members.

Cast

Elvira Quintana as Karina
Ramón Gay as Dr. Armando Valdés
Roberto G. Rivera as Molinar
Quintin Bulnes as Zandor
Alfonso Arnold
Nora Veryán as Marta
Luis Aragón as Daniel
Jorge Mondragón as Luis
Salvador Lozano as Gilberto
Margarita Villegas as María, wife Luis
Norma Navarro as Anita
Xavier Loyá as Juan
Margarito Esparza as Muñeco (uncredited)
Chel López as Agente policía (uncredited)
Esther Martínez Peñate as Sirvienta (uncredited)
Consuelo Molina as Nurse (uncredited)
Gloria Oropeza as Nanny Rita (uncredited)

Release

K. Gordon Murray imported the film to the US and added several English-language scenes.^[2]

Reception

Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle criticized the American import as incoherent.^[2] Glenn Kay, who wrote Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide, called the film "a strictly by-the-numbers exercise that must have elicited more giggles than gasps on its release".^[3]