Join Cult of the Living Dead as we plunge headfirst into the sun-scorched highways, occult bravado, and lawless excess of Álex de la Iglesia’s Perdita Durango (1997). In this episode, The Dale, Cea, and Twan unpack the film’s feral cult reputation, tracing the violent road trip of Perdita and her unhinged lover Romeo Dolorosa as a botched kidnapping, and a Santería-fueled scheme spirals into ritual murder, borderland chaos, and reckless erotic power games. We explore how Perdita Durango collides crime thriller, dark comedy, and exploitation spectacle into a savage satire of American pop mythology, spiritual grifting, and outlaw romance. Nearly thirty years later, it endures as one of the most abrasive and confrontational cult films of the late 1990s.
