Starring Manuel Ojeda, Jimmy (Jaime Huitrón), Marco Antonio Orozco, Julieta Carpinteiro, Iñaqui Goci, Yolanda Castañeda, Hilda Gonzalez, Yahayra Barba
Directed by Enrique Martinez
Expectations: High. For me, this is one of the most exciting moments in the history of this site.
On the general scale:
On the B-Movie scale:
Some background must be given before I start my review. About six or seven years ago, on a lazy weekend afternoon I flipped the channels around in hopes of finding something worth watching. Nothing caught my interest until I happened upon a nighttime desert scene where a guy shot electricity out of his staff, frying his enemy to a charred crisp. I immediately sat up to take notice. Telemundo was showing one hell of a film!
I watched in awe for the next twenty or thirty minutes, but I became bored and changed the channel when the film slowed down and moved into more dialogue-heavy sections. Despite taking two years of Spanish in high school, I don’t understand a lot of the language, and I convinced myself that the rest of the film wouldn’t contain anything as spectacular as the stunning FX-filled intro sequence. As the years passed, I regretted this decision more and more, and I found myself doing Internet searches for the film. They all returned almost no results, apparently no one else shared my fervor for Mictlan. One day I decided to check out my local library’s resources, wondering if perhaps they could acquire me a copy from another library through the magic of Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Three libraries in the country admitted to owning copies of the film: two on DVD, one on VHS. After multiple requests over the course of about a year, I finally managed to get the VHS copy sent to me and miraculously my multi-year search was over. The film built up a mystical vibe as my memories faded… How the fuck can any ultra low-budget film withstand this kind of unrealistic hype? With a shitload of electricity, flying kids and people morphing into animals, that’s how!