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In Spanish with English subtitles. Also known as The Black Vampire. Note: There is an on-screen logo present throughout the film.
For decades one of the great “missing” films in the Noir canon had been
Joseph Losey’s 1951 remake of Fritz Lang’s classic 1931 German masterpiece
M, which transposed the tale of a Dusseldorf child killer to Los Angeles. Argentine beauty Olga Zubarry stars as a cabaret performer trying to protect her young daughter from the mysterious murderer while parrying the advances of the investigator in charge (Roberto Escalada). Popular character actor Nathán Pinzón gives an against-type performance as the disturbed pedophile hiding in plain sight. Sensational cinematography by Anibal González Paz helps make this film every bit as worthy as Losey’s American remake, and the script’s inventive proto-feminist re-imaging of the storyline confirms
El Vampiro Negro as a major rediscovery.
