CEREBRO DEL MAL (Brain of Evil)

CEREBRO DEL MAL
(Brain of Evil)(Agrupación de Técnicos de la Industria Cinematográfica Cubana y Auxiliares, 1958*) Exec Prod: Enrique J. Zambrano; Co-Prod: Lic. Jorge García Besne, Dr. Carlos Garduño G., Jesús Alvariño; Dir: Joselito Rodríguez; Scr: Enrique J. Zambrano, Fernando Osés; Photo: Carlos Nájera; Music Adapt: Salvador Espinosa; Prod Mgr: Oscar G. Dulzaidez; Supv: Huberto Varela; Co-Dir: Enrique J. Zambrano; Film Ed: Jesús Echeverría; Camera Op: Minervino Rojas; Makeup: Israel Fernández; Sound: Modesto Corvisón
*[this film was released in Mexico in 1961; most sources credit it as having been produced in 1958, but a newspaper in the film appears to bear a July 1959

Night Tide (1961)

Night Tide (1961)

Dennis Hopper stars as a beguiled sailor, convinced that sideshow sweetie Linda Lawson is a real live mermaid. Cult director Curtis Harrington (Queen of Blood) fashioned this atmospheric chiller out of meager ingredients and came up with a moody, if slow-moving fantasy. The seamy seaside setting is well-utilized and the offbeat premise has helped the film accrue a cult following. But it's the quirky cast that brings life to the thing: Dennis Hopper, nuttily engaging, as always, Luana (Dementia 13) Anders, everyone's favorite "heavy," Bruno Ve Sota, and sultry lounge chanteuse Linda Lawson as the chick 'o the sea.