Juan López Moctezuma

Juan López Moctezuma (1929 – August 2, 1995) was a Mexican film director and actor. He was born in Mexico City in 1929.{{cite web|last1=Gutiérrez|first1=Vicente|title=López Moctezuma: la historia de un genio maldito|journal=El Economista|date=28 February 2011|url=http://eleconomista.com.mx/entretenimiento/2011/02/28/lopez-moctezuma-historia-genio-maldito|accessdate=30 October 2017|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110304145319/http://eleconomista.com.mx/entretenimiento/2011/02/28/lopez-moctezuma-historia-genio-maldito|archivedate=4 March 2011|language=es}} During his career he directed five films, all in the genres of supernatural horror and suspense: The Mansion of Madness (1973), Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975), To Kill a Stranger (1984), El Alimento del Miedo (1994), and his most recognized and controversial work, Alucarda (1977), which tells the story of a satanic possession in a Catholic convent.

In 1993 he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Mexico City because of Alzheimer's disease. He died on August 2, 1995.