El baúl macabro (1936)

Director
Miguel Zacarías

Main cast
Ramón Pereda; René Cardona; Manuel Noriega; Esther Fernández; Ruperto Batiz

Genres
Mystery, Horror, Sci-Fi

Description
A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.


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