Narciso Ibáñez Menta

The Dracula Saga

Count Dracula's pregnant granddaughter arrives at his castle, along with her husband, who is not a vampire. While she prepares to give birth to a new member of the Dracula line, her husband secretly launches into a series of affairs with the Count's resident "brides."

La calle junto a la luna

The life of the famous poet Evaristo Carriego (1883-1912), who lived in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo and who painted the customs of the people of those years like no one else.

Cult of Terror

A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of cinephilia, in search of genre specialists, fans and filmmakers who speak of their shared passion for fantastic cinema; a whole international spiritual community united under the cathartic shadow of horror.

I Hate My Body

The brain of a male engineer is transplanted into a female’s body. He soon finds it very frustrating to cope with the daily sexist discrimination most women deal with. For example, he is surprised when no one will hire a female engineer. When he is faced with dealing with female sexuality, he quickly begins exhibiting lesbian tendencies.

Night of the Werewolf

An evil witch brings back to life the infamous Elizabeth Bathory, who was executed several hundred years previously for murdering young women and bathing in their blood.

Derecho viejo

Tango musician moves to France to put an unhappy love affair behind him. Inspired by the life of tango composer Eduardo Arolas.

Pantalones Cortos

After learning that his widowed father will remarry, a boy escapes home.

Berenice

Edgar Allan Poe's short story adapted as a TV-Movie in Argentina

Ligeia

Edgar Allan Poe's short story adapted as a TV-Movie in Argentina.

Un hombre cualquiera

A humble man pretends to be a millionaire. When a young man arrives in town asking for his help, he will try to hide the truth.

Masterworks of Terror

Three extraordinary tales written by Edgar Allan Poe, the Master of the Grotesque: a man who is dead but is not; a cask of wine and a meditated revenge; and a heart that refuses to stop beating.

Piantadino

An insurance broker and his misadventures for trying to finalize a policy.

Twice a Judas

Luke Barrett, having lost his memory due to an accident, does not realize that Dingus had killed his wife and brother to take possession of the Barretts' land and money. At first Luke trusts him, but while looking for his forgotten identity he discovers the truth.

Another Cursed Movie

A history of Argentine horror cinema, from its beginnings in 1934 to present day. It is a path of defeat, dead-end streets and triumphs, where the protagonists will lead us through the lesser known hallways of local horror.

Yo hice a Roque III

Third Roque Gonzalez is a freeloader who lives with his friend Federico, famous ex-jockey who is now racing in hours after low fat. Federico can not shake off Roque, as it constantly reminds that when they were seven, saved his life. The thing is that Frederic attends a gym with the hope of returning to thin enough to ride again, and learns that there Botija Kid, the champion of Spain in the welterweights, need to stake his title to qualify for the European Championship boxing. But of course, nobody wants to take a beating the champion, despite offering her coach bag. Among Paco, the owner of the gym, and Frederick, Roque to get rolling, deceived, you agree to fight the champion ... Parody of the popular movie "Rocky."

Journey to the Beyond

A doctor in parapsychology invites some people to their mansion. They all have lived some kind of paranormal experiences.

El guión

A lonely writer one day meets a prostitute to whom he offers his money in exchange for her time and friendship. However, she begins to tire of him when his economy declines, so he must get money at all costs. Pilot episode of a series that was not broadcast at the time by TVE.

Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic

Mara Ordaz, a former film star who lives in an isolated mansion with her husband, her doctor and her money manager, decides to sell the house and return to Buenos Aires; but the three men do not agree with her decision.

Psychophobia

A woman recovering from the death of her husband suspects that her house has been invaded by demonic spirits. She summons a paranormal expert to help her get rid of them.

Terror en el cine argentino

Short documentary about horror films in Argentina.

Dracula must be Killed

Argentinian television horror movie from 1968.

The Monkey’s Paw

Mr.White, their wife and son, receive the visit of a person that possesses a monkey's paw with magic powers: it grants three desires. But the monkey's paw has the power of demonstrating that the destination governs the life of the men and that nobody can oppose without receiving a hideous punishment.

Préstamela esta noche

Manolo is the trusted servant of a famous tenor, Riccardi, an international opera singer. Although his life is overshadowed by the fame of his master, one day his luck changes. In a short time, two unusual events occur: he falls in love and an eccentric inventor offers him the deal of a lifetime...

Mi novia es un fantasma

A humble maid is confused with a millionaire from a misunderstanding in the hotel that works and a journalist falls madly in love with her.

Beyond Death

A Nazi scientist carries out secret experiments.

The Beast Must Die

A crime writer searching for the truth about a personal tragedy becomes involved in a murder investigation.

Coarse Salt

A famous composer creative in crisis and must compose a new album, but is going through a painful separation that prevents him from concentrating. In this situation, your manager will provide a time extension

El hombre que volvió de la muerte

A man is falsely accused and executed. He is brought back from the dead but suffers terrible burns on his face. He uses multiple different masks to get revenge on the people who wronged him.

Three Days in November

Paralytic Alicia is sent by her father to a bizarre clinic to be cured and soon begins to suspect sinister things are occurring upstairs (which the staff claim is uninhabited).

3 citas con el destino

The story unfolds through the twists and turns of a strange curse attributed to a jewel that, passed from hand to hand, carries a deadly destiny. Its theme spans the three countries where it was filmed (Spain, Mexico, and Argentina), beginning in Spain and then moving to Mexico. The jewel, which takes on the character of another figure in the narrative as it travels through different parts of the world, arrives in Buenos Aires. The film ultimately presents the jewel's final destination in Mexico, where its owner dies, like others who were also marked by its malevolent influence.

El televisor

Enrique buys a color television set just to satisfy a personal pleasure long time deferred but, from that moment on, he becomes obsessed with it in such way that eventually he is incapable to differ reality from fiction.

El último reloj

In 1829, a young man goes to London in search of his uncle, an irate watchmaker, in order to provide him with a home and a job.

Corazón

Each month a school teacher narrates a new story to his students, with a moral in each of them.

Cinco gallinas y el cielo

Five random people accidentally get dosed with an experimental psych-drug that suppresses fear and risk-avoidance.

Vidalita

In 1830, a young orphan lady poses as a man in order to meet the expectations of her uncle.

A Light in the Window

A woman and her two companions get lost in a storm and end up in a creepy house where a mad doctor is conducting experiments in the basement.

Historia de la frivolidad

The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s.

Historia de crímenes

A bank clerk uncovers the manager's criminal behavior and prevents him from carrying out a murder.

Narciso Ibáñez Serrador: historias para recordar

How the Uruguayan-Spanish actor, writer, producer and director Narciso «Chicho» Ibáñez Serrador changed forever the way of producing programs for Spanish television.

Almafuerte

Biography of the Argentine poet Almafuerte.

Lucecita

An innocent girl arrives as a domestic in a house where people are fueled by mutual hatred.

Procesado 1040

Elderly suburban man is imprisoned over a misunderstanding about some garden utensils.

Kuma-Ching

A bellicose Eastern power organizes a complicated plan to obtain the services of Professor Diego de Alcántara, a Spanish atomic scientist and father of Lola, a famous singer.

La muerte está mintiendo

The protagonist commits a crime and abandons his brother, on whom the shadow of suspicion falls, to avoid punishment. In his escape he meets for the first time the emotion of a true love, but fatality takes it upon himself, pushing him back onto the criminal path.

Nadie inquietó más

A peculiar, meticulous, vocationally archeological account of the professional life of the actor, Spanish by birth, Argentinean by adoption, Narciso Ibañez Menta (1912-2004), spiritual disciple of Lon Chaney, the new man of a thousand faces, master of horror, star of Argentinean theater, cinema and television for decades.

Cuando en el cielo pasen lista

The life and work of philanthropist and educator William Case Morris (1864-1932).

Pasto de fieras

The orphan shepherd boy Tino loses his flock to save a lost sheep. After this event, he tries to embark for America.

The Games Men Play

The vicissitudes of six different couples who arrive at a hostel in Buenos Aires called La Cigarra and are quarantined because of a supposed bubonic plague, causing all kinds of inconveniences and entanglements as a result of this forced coexistence.

Milagro de amor

Margarita, the nun of a cloistered convent in charge of handling the lathe, this is a rotating mechanism provided with a small window through which she delivered and received things from the outside without direct visual contact, she is seduced by a Don Juan and induced to escape with him .

The Islanders

Leandro and Carancha inhabit the islands located in the Parana delta. When their son brings home a girlfriend, her presence makes Carancha jealous and dramatic consequences ensue.

Fin de mes

The crushing conformity of a penniless bank teller takes an unexpected turn when he deviates from his honest routine.

Dr. Lazarus

Pilot episode of a never-produced horror short series: In 1870, a group of Argentine landowners founded the Logia del Eterno Retorno, sponsoring the research of Poison, a British veterinarian seeking immortality. However, a yellow fever epidemic interrupted his plans. Before dying, Poison managed to inject his formula into his son, who became Lazarus. This child, condemned to immortality, returned to Argentina in 1995, carrying the fever in his body, forcing him to undergo constant transplants. Now, he seeks the heirs of the lodge to recreate his ancestors' formula.

Freddy

In a second-rate variety company, a strange Hungarian fortune teller, a magician with a criminal record, a ventriloquist who uses a dummy named Freddy, a singer, and a group of girls who can no longer find work in top-tier theaters all live together.

The man who sold his laughter

Arnold Hall (Narciso Ibáñez Menta) is a middle-aged comedian who, betrayed by his wife, decides to murder her and flee using his own show as a cover. From this moment on, he is pursued by a mysterious and strange character who claims to know his crime, and blackmails him to betray him if he does not do what he asks.

Master of Horror

An anthology film of two classic tales from Edgar Allan Poe. A re-edited and dubbed version of Masterworks of Terror (1960) for American cinemas.

Legend of Horror

Two men escape from prison and one start a murder spree.