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Perdita Durango

Perdita Durango, released as Dance with the Devil in the United States, is a 1997 action-crime-horror film directed by Álex de la Iglesia, based on Barry Gifford's 1992 novel 59° and Raining: The Story of Perdita Durango. It stars Rosie Perez as the title character and Javier Bardem. Harley Cross, Aimee Graham, James Gandolfini, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins appear in supporting roles. It is a Spain–United States–Mexico coproduction.

In the film, an imposter Santeria priest resorts to bank robbery to pay his debts. Afterwards, he finds a new partner in a woman he randomly met. She convinces him to include human cannibalism in his ceremonies, and to kidnap gringo college students with her. The priest heads to Las Vegas with his new companions, to meet with a gangster. Unfortunately for the priest, his supposed business associate wants him dead and has already hired a hit man for the job.

Perdita Durango has gone to Mexico to scatter the ashes of her dead sister. There, she is picked up by bank-robbing drug dealer Romeo Dolorosa. Dolorosa had robbed the bank to pay off his debt to loan shark "Catalina". He also engages in scams in which he pretends to be a Santeria priest and hacks up corpses while snorting cocaine.

Romeo's latest scam is working for gangster Mr. Santos transporting refrigerated human fetuses to Las Vegas where they will be used to make cosmetic moisturizer.

Perdita devises a plan that they should capture a gringo and eat him as part of Romeo's ceremonies. They kidnap randomly chosen geeky college student Duane and his girlfriend Estelle. First, Perdita rapes Duane while Romeo rapes Estelle. They hold a ceremony to sacrifice Estelle while they force Duane to watch. Before the girl can be killed, the sacrifice is interrupted by a gang of men led by Shorty Dee, a betrayed former partner of Romeo.

Romeo and Perdita escape with Duane and Estelle still their captives. The four go to the meeting with Santos' people to pick up the truckload of fetuses. However, the hand-off is interrupted by drug enforcement agent Woody Dumas. Santos' men are all killed. Romeo escapes and drives to Vegas with Duane, while Perdita follows with Estelle.

On the trip, Romeo finds out his grandmother's house was raided by some of Catalina's men as punishment for Romeo's unpaid debt. Romeo visits Catalina in a club, pretending to offer Estelle as payment. When he gets Catalina alone, Romeo kills him.

Romeo, Perdita, Duane and Estelle finally get to Vegas. However, Dumas has been following them all the way. Moreover, the drop has become a trap for Romeo; Santos is upset about all the deaths at the pickup so he has hired Romeo's cousin Reggie to kill Romeo.

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