Poison for the Fairies
1986 · Movie · 90 min · ★ 7.7 · 74% critics
In 1965 Mexico City, a lonely schoolgirl falls under the spell of a new friend who claims to practice witchcraft. What begins as eerie play and childish fantasy slowly turns into a tense, controlling bond with increasingly unsettling consequences.
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Details
- Original title
- Veneno para las hadas
- Years
- 1986
- Release date
- 1986-10-02
- Language
- Spanish
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 74/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.7/10 (138 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy unsettling childhood stories, dark fairy-tale moods, and patient psychological tension in the vein of The Devil's Backbone; Not for you if you want fast pacing, gore, or constant scares.
Pros: eerie childlike atmosphere; strong central performances; haunting slow-burn tension | Cons: very slow pace; few traditional scares; uneven horror expectations
Themes
- mexico
- cinema on cinema
Cast & crew
Ana Patricia Rojo
as Veronica
- EG
Elsa Maria Gutierrez
as Flavia
Leonor Llausás
as La Bruja
- CS
Carmela Stein
as Nana
- MS
Maria Santander
as Miss Aragon
- ES
Ernesto Schwartz
as Tono
Lilia Aragón
as Flavia's Mother (voice)
- HC
Hilda Perez Carbajal
as Madame Rickard (voice)
- MP
Marcela Paez
as Grandmother (voice)
- AL
Araceli de Leon
as Nana (voice)
Directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada