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4 unusual facts about Luis Enrique Vergara


Isle of the Snake People

Isle of the Snake People is one of four low-budget Mexican horror films Karloff made in a package deal with Mexican producer Luis Enrique Vergara, the others being The Incredible Invasion, The Fear Chamber, and House of Evil.

Luis Enrique Vergara

During the two decades that Vergara wrote and produced films he worked with many actors and actress that included, Susana Dosamantes, Macaria, Altia Michel, Isela Vega, John Carradine, and Boris Karloff.

Bill Warren, the science-fiction historian, was on the set during the filming; he reported that Vergara forced the director of the American sequences Jack Hill to tie down with a rope “an early portable video camera to the top of the 35mm Mitchell he was using as his principal camera.”

The Incredible Invasion

The Incredible Invasion is one of four low-budget Mexican horror films Karloff made in a package deal with Mexican producer Luis Enrique Vergara.



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