Pure Blood

Pura Sangre is a 1982 Colombian drama thriller horror film directed by Luis Ospina starring Gilberto Forero, Carlos Mayolo, Florina Lemaitre, Humberto Arango and Luis Alberto García. The story was based in a real true story about the 'Monster of the Mangones'; apparently Adolfo Aristizabal, a sadist, psychopath who murdered 30 children between the ages of 8 and 13 and an unsolved case in the Colombian justice system. They were mostly street dwellers or young people who walked near the Mangones; an area of Cali where there were unbuilt spaces and buildings are isolated from each other, making it easy to capture anyone in the dark of night. To this was added the myth that the person presumed responsible for these deaths was a wealthy man who suffered from leukemia and the appearance of him was dying and cadaverous. So, to survive, the alleged man would have hired people to kill young people and survive on his blood, either with transfusions or by drinking it. Is considered a classic horror Colombian film, dedicated to Andrés Caicedo. Plot The film opens with some people who have been murdered in a house, one of them apparently raped. The killer, named Perfecto, had taken crime photos of him and during the opening credits, reveals them. The narrative moves to an airport where a charter lands and from the interior Roberto Hurtado, a wealthy but weak and ill old man, gets off, accompanied by his son, Adolfo, and Dr. Hughes, his family doctor. Hurtado is taken by ambulance to a luxurious penthouse by his drivers Perfecto and Ever, accompanied by Florencia, a nurse and their friend. At the office, Dr. Hughes explains to Adolfo that his father suffers from a rare blood disease which is poisoning him and has given him a monstrous appearance (which would alter his sanity) as well as Thrombocytopenic purpura. The only treatment is the constant transfusion of blood while it is young and healthy men.