Emilio Portes

Directing

Emilio Portes

Mexico City, Mexico

As a Mexico City ́s survivor PORTES has developed an unique style with a dark sense of humor, with unforgettable characters who live on the edge of horror and comedy films. In 2025 his 6th film DON’T LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE premiered at the 54th Rotterdam Film Festival and awarded at Film Festivals as Macabro, Fertaum, Fantasmagoria, Grimmfest, Brooklyn Horror, ScreamFest L.A. ScreamFest New Orleans, Sitges 2025. And in Gerardmer and Fantsporto 2026 too. In 2019 his disturbing tale about possessed religious icons BELZEBUTH won 2 ARIEL AWARDS from the Mexican Film Academy and was the 5th most watched premier at SHUDDER horror streaming. In AMAZON PRIME MX the film remained for 5 years until 2023, when it moved on to NETFLIX LATAM, to continue haunting subscribers. In 2015 his oddball and homage to Mexican movies, THE POPCORN CHRONICLES (Ana de la Reguera adn Andres Bustamante) was the 8th most watched Mexican film of the year. In 2019, his Christmas Carol about Cops vs. Exorcists titled PASTORELA won 7 Ariel Awards and soon became a mexican winter classic. In 2009, his circus extravaganza MEET THE HEAD OF JUAN PÉREZ won 4 Ariel Awards and Best First Picture at Guadalajara ́s Film Festival. Currently he directs and writes for hire, while looking for the financing for his next film adventure.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Belzebuth poster
7.2

While leading a police investigation of a massacre in a public school at the border of Mexico and U.S.A, special Agent Emanuel Ritter links this strange case to the coming and rising of the ancient demon Belzebuth. But in order to stop the trail of upcoming infanticides, Ritter shall have to confront himself before dealing with the forces of good and evil.

Belzebuth

2019

Belzebuth poster
7.2

While leading a police investigation of a massacre in a public school at the border of Mexico and U.S.A, special Agent Emanuel Ritter links this strange case to the coming and rising of the ancient demon Belzebuth. But in order to stop the trail of upcoming infanticides, Ritter shall have to confront himself before dealing with the forces of good and evil.

Belzebuth

2019

Pastorela poster
7.1

Agent Jesus Juarez (aka Chucho) has always played the Devil in his town's Nativity Play. This Christmas, when the new pastor of the church recasts the role, the two men engage in a battle between good and evil.

Pastorela

2011

The Crime of Cacaro Gumaro poster
4.4

After their fathers death, two brothers dispute the inheritance: the local movie theater known as Linterna Mújica. Their dispute may or not bring the town to its apocalypse, but it will for sure turn it upside-down.

The Crime of Cacaro Gumaro

2014

The Crime of Cacaro Gumaro poster
4.4

After their fathers death, two brothers dispute the inheritance: the local movie theater known as Linterna Mújica. Their dispute may or not bring the town to its apocalypse, but it will for sure turn it upside-down.

The Crime of Cacaro Gumaro

2014

El precio de educarlos poster
7.0

When the Rebolledo accountants' children finally leave their home, their lonely parents, feeling abandoned, come up with the crazy plan to win the lottery in order to regain the interest of Pali and Marcelo. Posing as millionaires works wonders, so much so that their children give up their personal ventures in order to be close to them. But things get out of control when they demand the same luxuries.

El precio de educarlos

2024

El precio de educarlos poster
7.0

When the Rebolledo accountants' children finally leave their home, their lonely parents, feeling abandoned, come up with the crazy plan to win the lottery in order to regain the interest of Pali and Marcelo. Posing as millionaires works wonders, so much so that their children give up their personal ventures in order to be close to them. But things get out of control when they demand the same luxuries.

El precio de educarlos

2024

Don't Leave the Kids Alone poster
6.5

A mother moves into a new house with her two children. One night she must leave the siblings home alone. What begins as a blast of carefree play soon turns into a claustrophobic horror story.

Don't Leave the Kids Alone

2026

Don't Leave the Kids Alone poster
6.5

A mother moves into a new house with her two children. One night she must leave the siblings home alone. What begins as a blast of carefree play soon turns into a claustrophobic horror story.

Don't Leave the Kids Alone

2026

Don't Leave the Kids Alone poster
6.5

A mother moves into a new house with her two children. One night she must leave the siblings home alone. What begins as a blast of carefree play soon turns into a claustrophobic horror story.

Don't Leave the Kids Alone

2026

Divine Intervention poster
7.9

Checo and Chuma decide to use their criminal skills to do good and help people. Along the way, they learn that friendship and love are more than just clichés.

Divine Intervention

2023

Conozca la cabeza de Juan Pérez poster
7.3

Juan Perez is a wizard who begins to remember how he lost his head, after an economic crisis in the Circus where he works, he promises to mount a spectacular act of beheading that it could again return it to its glory years. But without any fifth in the bag and with time running out to build a machine is forced to rob a real guillotine without this weighs a terrible curse.

Conozca la cabeza de Juan Pérez

2009

Conozca la cabeza de Juan Pérez poster
7.3

Juan Perez is a wizard who begins to remember how he lost his head, after an economic crisis in the Circus where he works, he promises to mount a spectacular act of beheading that it could again return it to its glory years. But without any fifth in the bag and with time running out to build a machine is forced to rob a real guillotine without this weighs a terrible curse.

Conozca la cabeza de Juan Pérez

2009

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hugooool

2004

12 mujeres en pugna poster
5.0

Mexican feature film

12 mujeres en pugna

2006