René Cardona, Jr. Filmography

Didn't Do it for Love

Actors: Jan Baracz, René Cardona, Jr., Jose-Luis Cuevas, Nicolas Echevarria, Juan Ferrara

Synopsis: In this low-budget German documentary, filmmaker Monika Treut profiles Norwegian-born actress-sex therapist Eva Norvind. Born in 1944 as Eva Johanne Chegodayeva Sakonskaya, daughter of a Russian prince and a Finnish sculptress, she studied in New York and was penniless when she traveled to Mexico Read More

La Fuga del Caro

Actors: Rolando Fernandez, Rosa Gloria Chagoyan, Diana Ferreti, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Frank Moro

Synopsis: In this routine adventure feature, Ramiro Caro (Rolando Fernandez) is an accused cocaine dealer who escapes from police after his capture. He is chased through cities and jungles by the lawmen who fall one by one at the hands of the wily Caro. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

La Buenota Risa

Crew: Director

Actors: Pedro, Pablo, Paco, Rebeca Mankita, Paty Alvarez

Beaks: The Movie

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Christopher Atkins, Michelle Johnson, Sonia Infante

Synopsis: Spanish hack Rene Cardona, Jr. (of Aztec Mummy fame) directed this gory rip-off of The Birds (not a parody as its goofy title suggests) which follows a reporter/photographer team (Michelle Johnson & Christopher Atkins) as they investigate frequent reports of lethal bird attacks on humans. They Read More

El Mercado De Humildes

Crew: Director

Actors: Rafael Inclán, Maribel Fernandez, Leticia Perdigón, Lilia Prado, Pedro "Chatanuga" Weber

Synopsis: In this comedy that's heavy with one-liners, the work ethic takes a drubbing and family values are touted as the true source of happiness, even for crooks. "El Multiple" (Rafael Inclan) is a devoted father and husband who loads up on stolen goods, smuggles his family and the loot into the United Read More

Rock 'n' Roll Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy

Crew: Director

Fiebre De Amor

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Luis Miguel, Lucerito, Guillermo Murray, Monica Sandoz Navarro

Synopsis: This routine music-filled drama is aimed directly at younger teen and pre-teen audiences willing to ignore flaws in directing and acting for the fun of seeing their idol, the 16-year-old Luis Miguel perform his songs. One of Luis's fans dreams of him night and day, and when the two finally meet on Read More

Greed

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Greed was originally released as Treasure of the Amazon, the literal translation of its Spanish-language title. Ostensibly based on a true story, the film stars Stuart Whitman as Gringo, an aging but still virile soldier of fortune. Right now, Gringo is foraging deep into headhunter country in Read More

The Treasure of the Amazon

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Emilio Fernández, Donald Pleasence, Bradford Dillman, John Ireland

Synopsis: An action adventure about a group of fortune hunters who search for gold and jewels in the jungles of South America. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Chile Picante

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Rojas "El Caballo", Héctor Suárez, Angélica Chaín, Lalo "El Mimo"

Fabricantes de Panico

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Guyana, Cult of the Damned

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Gene Barry, John Ireland, Joseph Cotten, Bradford Dillman

Synopsis: "Names have been changed to protect the innocent" in this infamous fictionalization of the tragic mass suicide of 914 followers of Jim Jones' "People's Temple" in Guyana in the fall of 1978. Rev. James Johnson (Stuart Whitman) is a charismatic but deeply paranoid man of the cloth who moves his Read More

The Bermuda Triangle

Crew: Director

Actors: John Huston, Andrés García, Gloria Guida, Hugo Stiglitz, Claudine Auger, Carlos East

Synopsis: This 1978 horror-lite opus was the work of René Cardona Jr., who was a creative force behind other tabloid-inspired efforts like Survive! and Guyana, Cult of the Damned. This less-exploitative entry in his filmography utilizes the infamous legends revolving around the many disappearances in the Read More

Tintorera

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Essentially a gory knock-off of Jaws, this watery horror outing follows the exploits of two adventuresome shark hunters vying for the love of several bathing beauties. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

El Ciclon

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The disaster genre gets the exploitation treatment in this gruesome tale of survival at sea from director René Cardona Jr. In the wake of a violent cyclone, the remaining passengers of a downed airplane find refuge on a passing boat carrying the survivors of a shipwreck. Without a clue where in Read More

Survive!

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The famous story of the rugby team whose plane crashes in the Andes is exploited in this lurid drama that focuses on the fact that the young men were forced to eat their dead companions to survive. For a much more engrossing, sensitive and suspenseful rendering of the true story, watch the 1992 Read More

Viaje Fantastico en Globo

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Hugo Stiglitz, Jeff Cooper, Carmen Vicarte, Carlos East, Zamorita

Synopsis: In this children's action/adventure movie, a team of Royal Geographical Society scientists, led by professor Fergusson (Hugo Stiglitz) take a balloon trip across Africa in 1862. Along the way, they have adventures with natives, rescue a stranded Englishwoman, and discover a gold mine. ~ Clarke Read More

Robinson Crusoe and the Tiger

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Here's the classic Daniel Defoe tale as told by a narrating tiger that witnesses castaway Robinson Crusoe's struggles to survive the man-eating cannibals on the tropical island. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Noche De Los Mil Gatos

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the Mexican horror film The Night of the Thousand Cats, the villain of the story is a handsome, wealthy playboy (Hugo Stiglitz) who likes to make love to vast numbers of lovely women. For some reason, once he has had his way with them, he decapitates them, preserves their heads in alcohol, and Read More

Departamento de Soltero

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Departamento de Soltero concerns a womanizer who decides to take a wife. Unable to completely stop his wonton ways, the man takes a lover after the wedding. When the wife discovers the tryst, she makes contact with the lover. The two meet and decide on an elaborate plan to give the husband his Read More

La Mula de Cullen Baker

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Cult favorite René Cardona, Jr. (Night of a 1,000 Cats) helms the 1973 Spanish-language western La Mula de Cullen Baker. Proving the old adage that he who laughs last laughs hardest, the film weaves the fable of Cullen Baker, a social pariah relentlessly derided and browbeaten by everyone. Read More

Esperame en Siberia Vida Mia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The black comedy Esperame en Siberia Vida Mia concerns a wealthy man who is manipulated into taking a bride, the daughter of a nefarious doctor. The doctor attempts to get his hands on the fortune by convincing the wealthy man he should end his own life rather than face a terminal disease. Soon Read More

Vanessa

Crew: Director

Actors: Laila Novak, Jacqueline Voltaire, Arthur Hansel, Hugo Stiglitz

La Hermana Trinquete

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: La Hermana Trinquete concerns a professional thief who mares a living ripping off the guests who stay at a five-star hotel in Acapulco. It takes a smart secret agent to figure out that that her persona of being a nun is nothing but a ruse to allow her access to her booty. ~ Perry Seibert, All Read More

Night of the Bloody Apes

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: La Horriplante Bestia Humana is a gory, misogynist exercise in rape, wrestling, and thoracic surgery from Mexico's premier father-son "Z"-movie team René Cardona and René Cardona Jr. Essentially a remake of the elder Cardona's Doctor of Doom, laced with more sex and violence for more tolerant Read More

El Ojo De Vidrio

Crew: Director

Juan Pistolas

Crew: Director

Actors: Javier Solis

Synopsis: Juan Pistolas concerns a hard-living revolutionary who uses every trick at his disposal in order to get what he wants. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Spiritism

Synopsis: In this Mexican supernatural drama, a bereaved mother is granted three wishes after she makes a pact with the devil. Her first wish is to bring her son back from the dead. Unfortunately things don't turn out as well as she'd hoped they would. The story is based on The Monkey's Paw. ~ Sandra Read More

En Peligro de Muerte

Crew: Director

A Tiro Limpio

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A Trio Limpio tells the story of a young lawyer who, for his first job, decides to travel back home and stop his wicked father who has committed many nefarious acts in order to maintain is wealth. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Santa Claus

Crew: Producer

Actors: José Moreno

Synopsis: Yet another oddball Mexican fantasy brought to American audiences by cut-rate exploitation titan K. Gordon Murray, this seasonal tale concerns Santa Claus (Jose Elias Moreno), who we discover doesn't work out of the North Pole after all. Instead, Santa and his friend and associate Merlin the Read More

La Faraona

Crew: Director

El Casto Susano

Crew: Director

Actors: Antonio Aguilar, Joaquin Pardave, Silvia Pinal, Fernando Fernandez, Fanny Schiller

Night of a 1000 Cats

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the tradition of such gruefests as The House of Whipcord and Three on a Meathook comes the 1972 stomach-turner Night of a 1000 Cats, directed by drive-in war horse Rene Cardona, Jr. (Rock 'n' Roll Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy, Horror and Sex). Anjanette Comer, Zulma Faiad, Hugo Stiglitz Read More