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The Black Vampire (1953 Argentina) aka El vampiro negro (1 of 2)

This “feminist” reworking of Fritz Lang’s classic M focuses on the mothers of children stalked by a deranged pedophile. (IMDB)

Gogó

Roberto Escalada

Nathán Pinzón

Olga Zubarry

Pascual Pelliciota

Olga Zubarry

Olga Zubarry and Nelly Panizza

Olga Zubarry

Nathán Pinzón

Nelly Panizza, Olga Zubarry and Pascual Pelliciota

Olga Zubarry and Pascual Pelliciota

Nelly Panizza

Roberto Escalada and Mariano Vidal Molina

Character - Jaime

Nathán Pinzón

Emma Bernal

Olga Zubarry

Pascual Pelliciota

Roberto Escalada and Gloria Castilla

Leda Zanda

Mariano Vidal Molina

Olga Zubarry

Nathan Pinzón

The Black Vampire (1953 Argentina) aka El vampiro negro (2 of 2)

A man is on trial as being the serial killer of adolescent girls in Buenos Aires, the question not whether he is the killer which is a given, but whether he should be held responsible for his actions which would dictate how the justice system would deal with him. Flashbacks then show the events around the killings primarily from three different but intersecting perspectives. One is the official investigation led by prosecutor, Dr. Bernard. On evidence, he believes the killer is like a vampire, leading to the perpetrator being referred to as the Black Vampire within the public mindset: compelled, for whatever reason, to kill girls, but feeling remorse after the fact in being unable to control those urges. Dr. Bernard's lonely home life which entails caring for his invalid wife colors the way he approaches the investigation. Two is the killer himself, milquetoast Teodoro Ulber, a private English teacher whose feelings of inadequacies as a man are a result of being ridiculed his entire life by women. And three is Amalia Keitel, a singer working under the stage name Rita at a seedy nightclub which is frequented by Ulber as a "friend" of Amalia's colleague Cora, and which is already on the authorities' radar as being a drug den. Through the window just outside her dressing room, Amalia caught a brief glimpse of the killer dumping the body of the first victim, Amalia initially reluctant to report what she saw, despite it affecting her emotionally, in the primary goal of protecting her own adolescent daughter from publicly being connected to someone like "Rita". (IMDB Huggo)