Luis Enrique Vergara

Luis Enrique Vergara was a prolific master of making low budget horror and monster movies from 1950 to 1971. In attempt to please all film goers, he created an uncanny mixture of monsters and horror with action, sex, science fiction, and comedy. To save money, he often wrote the screenplay as well as producing the films from his Filmica Vergara Cinecomisiones, a film production company he founded in 1952.

During the two decades that Vergara wrote and produced films he worked with many actors and actress that included, Susana Dosamantes, Macaria, Altia Michel, Isela Vega, John Carradine, and Boris Karloff. He produced the last four films in which Boris Karloff appeared: The Snake People, The Incredible Invasion, Fear Chamber, and House of Evil. Bill Warren, the science-fiction historian, was on the set during the filming; he reported that Vergara forced the director of the American sequences Jack Hill to tie down with a rope “an early portable video camera to the top of the 35mm Mitchell he was using as his principal camera.” Vergara knew a visionary idea when he saw one because “video assist” is currently a standard in film making. Due to his unexpected death, the release of the Karloff films was held up due to ownership rights of inheritance under Mexican law.

As a Screenwriter

1953

• El jugador credited as Luis Enrique Vergara Cabrera

1959

• El Anima del Ahorcado contra el Latigo Negro 3rd film in a series of 3; Luis Enrique Vergara credited with the story^[1]

1967

• El imperio de Drácula credited as L.E. Vergara C.

1968

• La sombra del murciélago credited as L.E. Vergara C.
• House of Evil
• Fear Chamber
• Arañas infernales original idea; credited as L.E. Vergara

1971

• The Incredible Invasion
• La muerte viviente

Films Produced

1949

• Tierra muerta

1952

• Traigo mi 45 credited as Luis Enrique Vergara Cabrera

1953

• El jugador credited as Luis Enrique Cabrera

1958

• El misterio del látigo
• El Latigo Negro credited as Luis Enrique Cabrera, production company: Películas Rodríguez, series of 3 movies
• El Látigo

1959

• El ánima del ahorcado contra el latigo

1965

• El hacha diabólica as Luis Enrique Vergara C.
• Demonio azul

1962

• El misterio de Huracan Ramirez starring Pedro Vargas

1966

• Profanadores de tumbas
• Blue Demon vs. el poder satánico as Luis Enrique Vergara Cabrera

1967

• El imperio de Drácula as Luis Enrique Vergara C.
• El barón Brakola as Luis Enrique Vergara C.
• Demonios sobre ruedas

1968

• Noches prohibidas
• Atacan las brujas as Luis Enrique Vergara C.
• Arañas infernales as Luis Enrique Vergara C.
• Los canallas
• Los Asesinos Filmica Vergara, 85 min. Nick Adams last film starred.,^[2]
• La sombra del murciélago Luis Enrique Vergara G.
• House of Evil
• Fear Chamber
• The Snake People
• The Incredible Invasion
• El satánico

1969

• Super Colt 38
• Paula
• Pacto diabólico
• Mil máscaras
• Las vampiras as Luis Enrique Vergara C.
• La señora Muerte as Luis Enrique Vergara C.
• Enigma de muerte as Luis Enrique Vergara C.

1970

• Matrimonio y Sexo

1971

• La muerte viviente as Henry Verg

External links

• Luis Enrique Vergara at the Internet Movie Database

References