Pura sangre (film)

Pura Sangre
Directed byLuis Ospina
Written byLuis Ospina
Alberto Quiroga
Screenplay byLuis Ospina
Based onReal events on 1960-1970 [1]
Produced byLuis Ospina
Rodrigo Castaño
Rocío Obregón
StarringGilberto Forero
Carlos Mayolo
Florina Lemaitre
Humberto Arango
Luis Alberto García
CinematographyRamón Suárez
Music byBernardo Ossa
Gabriel Ossa¸ Enrique Gaviria
Production
companies
Producciones Luis Ospina
Icaic (Cuba)
Distributed byFocine
Release dates
  • 1982 (1982) (Festival de cine de Cartagena)
  • 11 May 1983 (1983-05-11) (Bogotá and other cities, Colombia)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryColombia
LanguageSpanish

Pura Sangre (Spanish: Pure blood) is a 1982 Colombian drama thriller horror film directed by Luis Ospina starring Gilberto Forero, Carlos Mayolo, Florina Lemaitre, Humberto Arango and Luis Alberto García. The film is based on true events about the 'Monster of the Mangones'; apparently Adolfo Aristizabal,[2][3] a sadist, psychopath who murdered 30 children between the ages of 8 and 13 and an unsolved case in the Colombian justice system. They were mostly street dwellers or young people who walked near the Mangones; an area of Cali where there were unbuilt spaces and buildings are isolated from each other, making it easy to capture anyone in the dark of night. To this was added the myth that the person presumed responsible for these deaths was a wealthy man who suffered from leukemia and the appearance of him was dying and cadaverous. So, to survive, the alleged man would have hired people to kill young people and survive on his blood, either with transfusions or by drinking it.[1][4]

Is considered a classic horror Colombian film, dedicated to Andrés Caicedo.

  1. ^ a b "'Pura Sangre' y el terror de Luis Ospina". Señal Colombia.
  2. ^ "ENTRE MANGONES Y ASESINOS EN SERIE". utopicos.com.co.
  3. ^ González, Julián (October 31, 2017). "La sangre se despierta". Medium.
  4. ^ "El Monstruo de los Mangones". April 20, 2019.