Case Number 09622   Casa Negra // 1960 // 75 Minutes // Not
Rated Reviewed by Chief Counsel Rob Lineberger (Retired) // July
5th, 2006  The Charge  Black magic vengeance!  Opening Statement
Let's start with a gross baseline assumption: you're probably
most familiar with recent, mainstream Hollywood films. You know
Steven Spielberg's films better than Chano Urueta's. Isabella
Rossellini is more recognizable to you than Isabela Corona. If
that is true for you, then The Witch's Mirror is pretty darn
obscure. Instead of recent, Hollywood, and mainstream, it is
1960s-era Mexican horror. Set almost entirely in a dusty castle
filled with candelabras, señoritas, and phantasmagorias, The
Witch's Mirror is a riotous romp through every horror cliché in
the book.  Facts of the Case  Sara (Isabela Corona, A Man of
Principle), faithful servant of the dark Elohim, Santayana,
Lucifer, or whatever else sounds really scary, watches an
enchanted mirror with her goddaughter Elena (Dina de Marco,
Esmeralda). Mirror, mirror, on t