Juan López Moctezuma
Personal information
- Known for
- Directing
- Known credits
- 12
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- January 1, 1932
- Died
- August 2, 1995
- Place of birth
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Also known as
- 胡安·洛佩兹·莫克特祖马
Biography
Juan López Moctezuma (1929 – August 2, 1995) was a Mexican film director and actor. He was born in Mexico City in 1929.[1] During his career he directed five films, all in the genres of Gothic horror and suspense: The Mansion of Madness (1972), Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1974), To Kill a Stranger (1983), El Alimento del Miedo (1994), and his most recognized and controversial work, Alucarda (1978), which tells the story of a satanic possession in a Catholic convent.
In 1993 he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Mexico City because of Alzheimer's disease. He died on August 2, 1995.
