Carlos Enrique Taboada Walker (July 18, 1929 - April 15, 1997) was a Mexican screenwriter and director. He is best known for his
supernatural Terror
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and
suspense films
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including
Hasta el viento tiene miedo,
Más negro que la noche
'' Más Negro que la Noche'' (Blacker Than Night) is a 1975 Mexican supernatural horror film, written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada.
Plot
The film is about four women that move to a creepy house, inherited by one of them from an o ...
,
Veneno para las hadas, and
El Libro de piedra
'' El Libro de piedra'' (The Book of Stone) is a 1969 Mexican supernatural horror film, written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada.
This film was remaded in 2009.
Plot
Julia is hired to be the governess of a young girl, Sylvia who has an emo ...
. He won two
Ariel Awards (Mexican film academy awards) for Best Picture and Best Director for his 1984 film ''Poison for the Fairies''.
Career
Carlos Enrique Taboada was the son of the actors Julio Taboada and
Aurora Walker. He began his career in 1950 as an scriptwriter and director on Mexican television. In 1954, disappointed by reception of his first screenplay, Taboada retired from screenwriting for five years. This would happen again towards the end of his career, during which time his work began to receive international critical acclaim.
Filmography
As screenwriter
* ''Kid Tabaco'' (1954)
* ''El pandillero'' (1959)
* ''
Chucho el Roto''
* ''Aventuras de Chucho el Roto''
* ''La captura de Chucho el Roto''(1959)
* ''La maldición de Nostradamus''(1959)
* ''Nostradamus y el destructor de monstruos''(1959)
* ''Nostradamus, el genio de las tinieblas'' (1959)
* ''La sangre de Nostradamus''
erie de tres episodios(1959)
* ''El testamento del vampiro''
erie de tres episodios(1959)
* ''
Los inocentes
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'' (1960)
* ''Tirando a matar'' (1960)
* ''Que me maten en tus brazos'' (1960)
* ''Orlak, el infierno de Frankestein'' (1960)
* ''El malvado Carabel'' (1960)
* ''
Alma llanera
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'' (1965)
* ''Rubí'' (1970)
As director
* ''La recta final'' (1964)
* ''El juicio de Arcadio'' (1967)
* ''
Hasta el viento tiene miedo'' (1968)
* ''
El libro de piedra
'' El Libro de piedra'' (The Book of Stone) is a 1969 Mexican supernatural horror film, written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada.
This film was remaded in 2009.
Plot
Julia is hired to be the governess of a young girl, Sylvia who has an emo ...
'' (1969)
* ''El arte de engañar'' (1970)
* ''El deseo en otoño'' (1970)
* ''¿Quién mató al abuelo?'' (1970)
* ''El negocio del odio'' (1970)
* ''La fuerza inútil'' (1970)
* ''Rapiña'' (1973)
* ''
Más negro que la noche
'' Más Negro que la Noche'' (Blacker Than Night) is a 1975 Mexican supernatural horror film, written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada.
Plot
The film is about four women that move to a creepy house, inherited by one of them from an o ...
'' (1975)
* ''La guerra santa'' (1977)
* ''
Veneno para las hadas'' (1984)
References
1929 births
1997 deaths
Mexican film directors
Horror film directors
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