Se los chupó la bruja is a 1958 Mexican horror

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

-comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 film

Film

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 directed by Jaime Salvador and starring Viruta y Capulina

Viruta y Capulina

Marco Antonio Campos and Gaspar Henaine performed together as Viruta y Capulina, a Mexican comedy duo in film that first appeared in the movie Se los Chupó la bruja, in 1958....

, Sonia Furió and Octávio Arias. It is the first film where Marco Antonio Campos and Gaspar Henaine are billed and paired together as Viruta y Capulina.

Plot

Viruta and Capulina are two brothers who are trying to convert water into combustible for vehicles. Don Caritino, their landlord, has tried to get their due rent. Viruta and Capulina refuse to pay their due rent, so Don Caritin proposes them to convince their goddaughter Gloria to have a date him, and he'll let them live rent-free. But Viruta and Capulina are surprised when they are told they have inherited, along with their cousin Reynaldo, their great uncle's monetary estate and mansion in "El callejón de las ánimas". There is a hidden treasure in the mansion that their great uncle tried to find. The mansion's butler and his wife, urgingly tying to find the treasure, scare Viruta, Capulina, Gloria, and Reynaldo out of the house so that their plan they can go on with their searching. Their luck turns around when Reynaldo calls the sheriff to arrest the butler and his wife. Viruta and Capulina show their water-energy invention to the sheriff in the butler's car, but the butler had poured gasoline into the gas compartment a few moments before. So Capulina lights a match and pours it in, and an explosion occurs. The explosion cracked a column where the treasure was hidden, Viruta and Capulina found the treasure and gives some to the sheriff But Reynaldo's greatest treasure is Gloria (Viruta and Capulina's goddaughter), who has developed a romantic relationship with him.

Cast

• Marco Antonio Campos - Viruta
• Gaspar Henaine - Capulina
• Sonia Furió - Gloria
• Octávio Arias - Reynaldo
• Yerye Beirute - Butler
• José Jasso - Sheriff
• Armando Arriola - Don Caritino
• Lupe Carriles
  Lupe Carriles
  Lupe Carriles was a Mexican character actress who was mainly cast as maids, sometimes uncredited. One of her many memorable roles is "La Trompeta", in La Cucaracha , starring María Félix...
  
   - Housemaid
• Alberto Catalá - Lawyer
• Felipe de Flores - Policeman
• Armando Espinosa - Policeman
• Mario García 'Harapos' - Sheriff's assistant
• Elia Mendéz - Sonia's servant