The Vampire, 1957
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The Vampire's Coffin, 1957
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Blood Of Nostradamus, 1962
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El Vampiro
Directed with verve by Fernando Mendez--one of the more
gifted craftsmen from producer
Abel Salazar's vault of talent--El Vampiro
ultimately would be hailed as Mexico's classic horror film. Christopher
Lee credits Robles' Count Lavud with being the inspiration behind his
version in Hammer's 1958, Horror of Dracula.
Riding high on the success of the original, Salazar quickly produced El
Ataud del Vampiro (The Vampire's Coffin) that same year. Also starring
Robles and Welter, it transported the Count from his eerie hacienda to a
less moody urban environment. Just one of the reasons co-star Welter
believes the sequel to be a less compelling film. The Vampire's Coffin
was German's final vampire film and, aside from a brief role in The
Brainiac, his last project for Salazar.
In 1959 German starred in an episodic television horror soap opera,
Nostradamus. The 24 episode series was subsequently cut into four
feature films and released in the early 1960's:
La Maldicion de
Nostradamus Nostradamus y el Destructor de
Monstruos Nostradamus el Genio de las Tinieblas Sangre de Nostradamus
By the mid-1960's, German had moved away from the horror genre and into
more mainstream film and stage dramas.
German Robles Poster Gallery
Starring German Robles as the blood-lusting Count Lavud, and
his neck-bitten co-star Ariadna Welter, El Vampiro was the first new
international adaptation of the Dracula legend since Lugosi's 1932
incarnation.
(The Curse of Nostradamus)
(The Monster Demolisher)
(The Genie of Darkness)
(Blood of Nostradamus).