I honestly can't fathom why this gem is completely unknown. The Mexican oddity "The Sheriff's Strange Son" sits in this category, sadly. There are some horror pearls out there that are quite good, but for equally incomprehensible reasons, nobody has ever heard of them, and you must really seek intensively if you want to see them. There are horror movies that are not at all good, but for some incomprehensible reason they are world famous and extremely popular. This is the first film of Fernando Duran Rojas I've seen, but it won't be the last. That job complete, he decides to go after his brother too. On the day of the hanging, the ghost of Erick appears with glowing eyes and demands that only he can kill his father. Jackson was a pretty crappy cop - go figure - so he's finally caught for a murder that he covered up.
Things would have worked out great for Jackson except Fred won't stop telling people how his father killed him, as he believes that he's really the dead one. Despite the protests of the old surgeon, the surgery happens and Erick pays the price, ending up buried in an unmarked grave. Years later, as the boys near puberty, Jackson kidnaps the doctor and forces him to split the boys at gunpoint. But the lawman is too busy blaming the doctor for his wife dying and the fact that he has to raise these kids all by himself. There's also the matter of some prophecy that the plague and the twins being joined as they are signals the birth of the Antichrist. The wife - not so coincidentally named Mary - dies as she gives birth to a set of conjoined twins named Fred and Erick. On the night that Sheriff Frederick Jackson's wife goes into labor, the doctor is nowhere to be found, as he's tending to the numerous victims of the plague that is decimating the denizens of the small town of Santa Rosa. The Sheriff's Strange Son is the translation of this film's title and it lives up to those words. I recommend it for fans of Mexican Horror and demonic possession movies. This is a Western with Supernatural/Horror elements. Also, the execution scene and the "exorcism" sequence look really creepy with evil sounds in the background and a ghostly atmosphere.
El hijo del sheriff movie#
The direction is not that bad because at some points, it looks like the movie was inspired by "The Evil Dead" (specially in the scene where the surgery is taking place and a demon wind enters the cabin and beats the sheriff and the doctor). The twins (Only played by a boy!) deliver good performances but I didn't buy the "evil" inside one of them. The movie has good acting specially by Erick del Castillo and Mario Almada. So the evil one takes the soul of the woman who took care of them and tells his brother that finally they will be together. But he made a mistake and suddenly in a super cheesy scene, he spells the good one. The doctor who is haunted by the event decides to apply science and through hypnosis he spells the evil twin out of the good twin's body and soul. Then the movie gets somehow dull as some scenes do not get anywhere but we get lousy dialogs and inept scenes involving the dead twin making apparitions and threatening the people that had to do with his surgery. People is convinced that the other twin never died and that he's roaming on earth with diabolical purposes. The day of his execution, Erick (the believed dead twin) makes a demonic appearance that scares the hell out of people and by himself kills his father (he was hung up).
El hijo del sheriff trial#
Local town's people hear about the murder of the other twin and decide to make a trial against the father who gets the death penalty condemn. until his brother comes from the dead and seeks revenge against his father, the doctor, and anyone else who comes into the way.
The other one stays alive and lives a normal life. A hell of an effective doctor! In consequence, one of the twins tragically dies. He hires the town's doctor and through a graphic but not grotesque scene, they get separated only by a scalpel. Years after, he decides that it's time to get his sons separated. So the sheriff decides to tie with chains his twins in the house attic. The movie deals with the town's sheriff's twins that were born with an abnormal physical feature : they were born glued. "El Extraño." has a very interesting plot that deals with medicine, science, religion, and of course, evil.
Filmed in Durango and supported big time by the government of the state, "El Extraño Hijo del Sheriff" is the Mexican "Basket Case" version but with a few differences that I will explain later.
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