Fernando Méndez
Directing
Biography
Fernando Méndez (1908–1966) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter. He was active during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. In 1957 he switched from melodramas to focus increasingly on horror films.
Known For

A pretty young Mexican girl returns to her hometown to make funeral arrangements for her beloved aunt, who has just died. Soon she begins to hear disturbing stories about the town being infested by vampires, and she eventually begins to suspect that her remaining aunt and the mysterious next-door neighbor may be involved.
The Vampire

Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.
Rage

Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.
Los hijos de María Morales

A federal policeman arrives in a town ravaged by a cult of hooded men who leave a satanic face on their victims.
Los diablos del terror

Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.
What a Man

After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside, removed from corrupting influences. Fifteen years later...
Fierecilla

Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.
El pueblo sin Dios

Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
The Three Garcías

In Sierra Negra, graverobbers Barraza and Mendoza steal the coffin of Count Karol de Lavud, before heading to a hospital. Barraza sees a medallion upon the coffin's opening and demands more money from Mendoza. Meanwhile, Marta González, recovering from traumatic events, works as a nurse with Dr. Saldívar. When Barraza removes the wooden stake in order to steal Lavud's medallion, the vampire returns to life and begins a crime spree, hunting down Marta to marry her.
The Vampire's Coffin

The three Diablo brothers are effete dandies who love chamber music and afternoon tea... but they also love brawling and whoring and all that wild west stuff. They inherit a ranch, and all hell breaks loose when they go to take ownership of it.
Los hermanos Diablo

Bankrupt millionaire discovers a treasure map belonging to a distant ancestor.
El cofre del pirata

After breaking out of jail, a group of convicts finds a ghost town they can take possession of. They send word out along the grapevine that criminals and marginal people can make a home there... and as the population grows, their self-policing efforts turn the whole town into a model community.
Fugitivos: Pueblo de proscritos

A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...
The Body Snatcher
Four young women facing "crises," mostly centered around the crucially-important issue of preserving their virginity in a variety of purity-oath threatening situations.
Señoritas

Charming but unreliable, Roberto has earned his nickname "El Suavecito" through his constant flirtations and the easy way he moves through life, even when it causes pain to his devoted aging mother and his beautiful neighbor Lupita, who resists his overtures in the hopes he can learn to settle down and behave. When Lupita gains a steady and honest suitor in Carlos, El Suavecito can't resist trying to foul his chances with the help of the unscrupulous gambler "El Nene"--but it all goes badly wrong. This neglected noir asks whether a morally impoverished gangster is capable of redemption.
The Soft One

Three good guys vs a bad dude who sells weapons to the Apaches and provokes a range war between US Cavalry and a splinter group of tribesmen, breaking the standing treaty between their tribe and the invaders. Sequel to Los Hermanos Diablo.
Venganza Apache

A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.
The Naked Woman

A young bureaucrat's career takes off when it's believed he's keeping company with the daughter of a higher-ranking official.
La hija del ministro

Two brothers and their pops end up helping out an orphaned young woman who wants revenge against her father's murderer.
Los aventureros

Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.