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The mummies are a notable part of Mexican popular culture, echoing the national holiday "The Day of the Dead" (El Día de los Muertos). A B movie titled Santo vs. The Mummies of Guanajuato (1970) pitted the well-known Mexican professional wrestler Santo and several others against reanimated mummies.
The four sisters known as Las Poquianchis. María Delfina González Valenzuela (1912 – 17 October 1968), María del Carmen González Valenzuela (1918–1969), María Luisa González Valenzuela (1920 – 19 November 1984) and María de Jesús González Valenzuela (1924–1990), known as Las Poquianchis, were four sisters from the central Mexican state of Guanajuato.
La leyenda de las Momias, also known as The Legend of the Mummies of Guanajuato, is a 2014 Mexican animated horror adventure comedy film produced by Ánima Estudios and distributed by Videocine. The third installment of the Leyendas film saga, following Nahuala and Llorona , the story is a fictional take on the origin of the mummies , mainly ...
Mexico's federal archaeology agency on Monday accused the conservative-governed city of Guanajuato of mistreating one of the country’s famous mummified 19th century bodies. The National ...
The Mummies of Guanajuato is a 1978 book which reprints Ray Bradbury's novelette, "The Next in Line", illustrated with photographs, by Archie Lieberman, of the actual mummies discovered in Guanajuato which inspired the story. The story originally appeared in Bradbury's first book, Dark Carnival, in 1947.
The third film, The Legend of the Guanajuato Mummies, or simply The Legend of the Mummies, was released on 30 October 2014 with 700 copies in regular and 4DX formats, a first for a Mexican film. [3] The film is a fictionalization of the origin of the mummies, notably from the Guanajuato region. It follows Leo San Juan and his gang in the city ...
The best known luchador film made outside of Mexico is 1962's Santo vs. Las Mujeres Vampiro ("Samson vs. the Vampire Women"), which was featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Las Luchadoras ("The Wrestling Women") appeared in six films, the most famous being The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy (1964) and Doctor of Doom (1962).
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nine people are dead, including four women, after gunmen burst into a bar and opened fire in the violence-wracked Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities said Thursday.