Two Monks (Dos Monjes), Juan Bustillo Oro, 1934 (1 hr 25 mins). Restored by Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation.
In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them. Stylistic and structural experiment abounds in this early example of Mexican Gothic.
Margarita Vargas, Romance Languages and Literatures, UB