Freak obsessed with terror narratives’ paradoxical beauty. After a long history of entrapment in different film-industry and university teaching tentacles, the artist his given his life over to studying, promoting and exhibiting fantasy and horror movies. He holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. From 2010 to 2021 Castillo Flores served as the Mórbido Fest’s programming director. His curation México Maleficarum: Resurrecting 20th-Century Mexican Horror Cinema played in 2023 at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris and in 2022 at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles.

El testamento de la Momia Mexicana, 2024
90 min.

This performative conference excavates Mexican horror cinema. It guides us through the audiovisual folklore of a genre in which mythology, legend, imagination, history, the unusual, and, of course, sad and absurd realities all coexist. Castillo Flores’ discourse intertwines the two primary threads of Mexico’s cinematographic mummies: indigenous ones suffering from a terrible curse of (lack of)love and those from the Saint Paula Cemetery in Guanajuato that cry for revenge. By revealing and exploring these stories, the film honors the artists, important figures, and events behind the myths that bring Mexican cinema’s mummies to life.