Best Mexican Horror Movies & Films Subgenre

Top 21 must-see best mexican horror movies from mexican horror movies, including Pan's Labyrinth, Huesera, The Devil's Backbone, The Similars, Cronos, We Are What We Are, Under the Salt, Belzebuth, Evil Eye, and Cemetery of Terror ranked and rated by score.


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Mexican Horror Movies List

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1). Pan's Labyrinth (2006) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 9.11/10 | IMDB Rating: 8.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 724,842 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.5/10 | Metascore: 9.8/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $37,646,380
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Plot / Synopsis: In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sad**tic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. Tagline: What happens when make-believe believes it's real?...

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, Ariadna Gil


2). Huesera (2022) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.93/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 6,846 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.7/10 | Metascore: 8.1/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Valeria has long dreamed about becoming a mother. After learning that she's pregnant, she expects to feel happy, yet something's off...

Director: Michelle Garza Cervera
Stars: Alfonso Dosal, Sonia Couoh, Mayra Batalla, Martha Claudia Moreno, Pablo Guisa Koestinger


3). The Devil's Backbone (2001) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.76/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 73,265 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.3/10 | Metascore: 7.8/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $755,249
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Plot / Synopsis: After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets that he must uncover. Tagline: The living will always be more dangerous than the dead...

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés


4). The Similars (2015) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.65/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 4,457 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.5/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: On the rainy night of October 2, 1968, eight characters waiting on a remote bus station for a bus heading to Mexico City start experiencing a strange phenomenon. Tagline: On 2015, we all become the same...

Director: Isaac Ezban
Stars: Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Fernando Becerril, Humberto Busto, Carmen Beato


5). Cronos (1992) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.33/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 35,155 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.8/10 | Metascore: 7.0/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $621,392
Cronos is Streaming on HBO Max
Plot / Synopsis: A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path...

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath


6). We Are What We Are (2010) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 6.47/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 5,174 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.2/10 | Metascore: 6.5/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: When the patriarch of the family passes away, the teenage children must take responsibility for the family chores: the preparation of the rituals, the hunting and putting the all-important meat on the table. These newfound responsibilities are even more daunting, however, when you live in the city and happen to be a family of cannibals. Tagline: Young. Wild. Hungry...

Director: Jorge Michel Grau
Stars: Francisco Barreiro, Paulina Gaitan, Alan Chávez, Carmen Beato, Adrián Aguirre


7). Under the Salt (2008) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 5.52/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,204 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A series of grisly murders lead commander Trujillo (Humberto Zurita) to Santa Rosa de la Sal, a desert town close to a salt mine, where he meets Víctor Zepeda (Ricardo Polanco) - an enigmatic teenager who spends his free time making crude animated horror films - and who may or may not be the killer he is looking for.Tagline:...

Director: Mario Muñoz
Stars: Humberto Zurita, Plutarco Haza, Emilio Guerrero, Irene Azuela, Ricardo Polanco


8). Belzebuth (2017) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 5.2/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 4,663 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: After losing his family in an extremely tragic way, Detective Ritter must investigate a massacre at a school perpetrated by a student. What seemed like a pretty clear case becomes much more dense when a priest of the Vatican appears with another point of view...

Director: Emilio Portes
Stars: Tobin Bell, Joaquín Cosio, Tate Ellington, Giovanna Zacarías, Aurora Gil


9). Evil Eye (2022) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 5.02/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,691 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Nala, a 13-year-old girl from the city, travels with her family to her grandmother's home in the countryside, to try to find a cure for her little sister's mysterious illness - But she'll soon find her granny is not exactly what she seems...

Director: Isaac Ezban
Stars: Ofelia Medina, Paola Miguel, Samantha Castillo, Arap Bethke, Ivanna Sofia Ferro


10). Cemetery of Terror (1985) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 4.93/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,506 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A group of teens decide to pull a Halloween prank and steal a body from the local morgue. Unbeknownst to them, he was a vicious serial killer that worshiped Satan and was promised that he would live again. A professor who is aware of his evil must stop him before it's too late for everyone...

Director: Rubén Galindo Jr.
Stars: Hugo Stiglitz, José Gómez Parcero, Bety Robles, Leo Villanueva, Raúl Meraz


11). Mark of the Devil (2020) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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MPAA Rating: 0
Plot / Synopsis: Karl, a man who suffers a demonic possession, together with Tomás, a priest with addiction problems, embark on a hunt for demons, finding the case of Camila, a girl who attacks her family while controlled by a demon. Karl and Tomás try to save her by starting a battle; Karl has faced many beings from beyond but never one...

Director: Diego Cohen
Stars: Eduardo Noriega, Eivaut Rischen, Arantza Ruiz, Nicolasa Ortíz Monasterio, Lumi Cavazos


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