Luis Enrique Vergara
| Luis Enrique Vergara | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Luis Enrique Vergara Cabrera May 13, 1922 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Died |
16 December 1969 (aged 47) New York City, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Resting place | Mexico City |
| Religion | Catholic |
| Spouse(s) | Leonor Aguado |
| Children | Luis Enrique Vergara Aguado |
Luis Enrique Vergara was a prolific master of making low budget horror and monster movies from 1950 to 1971. In attempt to please all film goers, he created an uncanny mixture of monsters and horror with action, sex, science fiction, and comedy. To save money, he often wrote the screenplay as well as producing the films from his Filmica Vergara Cinecomisiones, a film production company he founded in 1952.
During the two decades that Vergara wrote and produced films he worked with many actors and actress that included, Susana Dosamantes, Macaria, Altia Michel, Isela Vega, John Carradine, and Boris Karloff. He produced the last four films in which Boris Karloff appeared: The Snake People, The Incredible Invasion, Fear Chamber, and House of Evil. Bill Warren, the science-fiction historian, was on the set during the filming; he reported that Vergara forced the director of the American sequences Jack Hill to tie down with a rope “an early portable video camera to the top of the 35mm Mitchell he was using as his principal camera.” Vergara knew a visionary idea when he saw one because “video assist” is currently a standard in film making. Due to his unexpected death, the release of the Karloff films was held up due to ownership rights of inheritance under Mexican law.
As a Screenwriter
- 1953
- El jugador credited as Luis Enrique Vergara Cabrera
- 1959
- El Anima del Ahorcado contra el Latigo Negro 3rd film in a series of 3; Luis Enrique Vergara credited with the story[1]
- 1967
- El imperio de Drácula credited as L.E. Vergara C.
- 1968
- La sombra del murciélago credited as L.E. Vergara C.
- House of Evil
- Fear Chamber
- Arañas infernales original idea; credited as L.E. Vergara
- 1971
- The Incredible Invasion
- La muerte viviente
Films Produced
- 1949
- Tierra muerta
- 1952
- Traigo mi 45 credited as Luis Enrique Vergara Cabrera
- 1953
- El jugador credited as Luis Enrique Cabrera
- 1958
- El misterio del látigo
- El Latigo Negro credited as Luis Enrique Cabrera, production company: Películas Rodríguez, series of 3 movies
- El Látigo
- 1959
- El ánima del ahorcado contra el latigo
- 1965
- El hacha diabólica as Luis Enrique Vergara C.
- Demonio azul
- 1962
- El misterio de Huracan Ramirez starring Pedro Vargas
- 1966
- Profanadores de tumbas
- Blue Demon vs. el poder satánico as Luis Enrique Vergara Cabrera
- 1967
- El imperio de Drácula as Luis Enrique Vergara C.
- El barón Brakola as Luis Enrique Vergara C.
- Demonios sobre ruedas
- 1968
- Noches prohibidas
- Atacan las brujas as Luis Enrique Vergara C.
- Arañas infernales as Luis Enrique Vergara C.
- Los canallas
- Los Asesinos Filmica Vergara, 85 min. Nick Adams last film starred.,[2]
- La sombra del murciélago Luis Enrique Vergara G.
- House of Evil
- Fear Chamber
- The Snake People
- The Incredible Invasion
- El satánico
- 1969
- Super Colt 38
- Paula
- Pacto diabólico
- Mil máscaras
- Las vampiras as Luis Enrique Vergara C.
- La señora Muerte as Luis Enrique Vergara C.
- Enigma de muerte as Luis Enrique Vergara C.
- 1970
- Matrimonio y Sexo
- 1971
- La muerte viviente as Henry Verg
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References
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns, by Paul Green, forward by Mike Hoffman, 2009, McFarland & Company, Inc, Publishers, North Carolina, p.22 El Latigo Negro fights the spirit of a man hanged for a crime he may have not committed.
- ↑ Michael R. Pitts, Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films, 2nd. ed. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2013, p. 16. Nick Adams, Carlos East, Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., Two bandits with distrust for one another vie for control of a small border town.