Super obscure "MGS Film Inc." release in pristine condition!
Uncut
version of aka 'Mortal Lock/El Castillo De La Pureza/The Castle of Purity' the extremely obscure 1972 Mexican
thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.
In
this disturbing thriller, a father (a disciplined and sexually driven
man) seeks to protect his family from the evils of the outside world
and locks them away in his ancestral home for eighteen years.
This
movie is based in a true story where a man that is afraid to
contaminate his family with the evils of the world (and actually he is
already "contaminated") decides to lock them inside their house for
years, avoiding them any kind of contact with the outside world, even
through the windows. When he married his wife, the arrangement seemed
to be that the only one who ever was to set a foot out of the house was
the man. Not his wife, not his children (the eldest is 18 and hasn't
been outside of the house once). The only living daylight the children
(Utopia, Porvenir and Voluntad) see, is via the atrium in the center of
the old house. The only thing that 'window on the world' seems to have
to offer is, rain, rain, rain.
Not happy just with this, he makes the kids work in the family business that is making poison to kill rats.
Only
a few times do we get to see the sun shine, and most of the times it's
in the scenes where the man goes out of the house. When he does, he
mostly is about to sell the raticide his children manufacture. The rest
of their time, they spend playing old games, with old toys. Or they get
punished for something their father doesn't really like. Sometimes it
seems he even locks them up for fun.
This film is a must see for
anyone who likes a powerful film that has a lot to tell, but do
acknowledge you're up for one Hell of a depressing experience.
In Spanish dialog (never available in English spoken).
Starring
Claudio Brook, Rita Macedo, Arturo Beristain, Diana Bracho, Gladys
Bermejo, Maria Barber, Mario Castillon Bracho, Maria Guadalupe Delgado,
Andrea del Llano, Alejandra Jimenez, Cecilia Leger and Ines Murillo.
A very obscure Vhs release that you will not find elsewhere.
In pristine condition with flawless playback.
PRODUCT TYPE: VHS videotape
VIDEO LABEL: MGS Film Inc.
VIDEO FORMAT: NTSC
LANGUAGE: Spanish
SUBTITLES: none
SCREEN RATIO: Fullscreen
RUNNING TIME: 107 minutes 41 seconds (exact)
TAPE CONDITION: Excellent
COVER CONDITION: Excellent
NOTE: This tape is in the NTSC (USA) video format.
Make sure you are able to play the NTSC video format in your VCR before buying.
