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De Los spooky movie guide: 13 scary movies Latines love
1 year, 2 months ago

De Los spooky movie guide: 13 scary movies Latines love

LA Times  

With Halloween and Día de Muertos just around the corner, you’re probably in the mood for a scary movie marathon. Where to Watch: Hulu, ROW8, Amazon Prime Video, Vudu, Apple TV ‘Satanic Hispanics’ “Satanic Hispanics” Trailer Five Latine Filmmakers Mike Mendez, Alejandro Brugués, Eduardo Sánchez, Gigi Saul Guerrero and Demián Rugna come together to create “Satanic Hispanics,” an anthology of …

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Traitor, ghost, feminist icon: Reclaiming the stories of La Llorona
1 year, 2 months ago

Traitor, ghost, feminist icon: Reclaiming the stories of La Llorona

LA Times  

La Llorona seeps into memories and households across countries, emerging from rough terrains, desolate roads and hollow creeks. The phantom appeared nearly 100 years later onscreen in the 1960s in “La Llorona,” which travels back to New Spain and to the present time in Guanajuato, Mexico. Literary writer Octavio Paz’s 1950 essay, “The Labyrinth of Solitude,” defines Mexican national identity …

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Universal Horror Nights is bringing the spooky tales of Latin America to life
1 year, 3 months ago

Universal Horror Nights is bringing the spooky tales of Latin America to life

LA Times  

The mythical creatures from Latin American horror stories are haunting visitors at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights. A new maze, “Monstruos: The Monsters of Latin America,” is giving life to popular Latin American legends like Tlahuelpuchi, La Lechuza and El Silbón. “We’ve basically created like a mini land within Halloween Horror Nights in Universal Studios Hollywood that’s fully dedicated to …

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How Latin American horror films highlight femicides, political corruption and other human rights abuses
4 years, 4 months ago

How Latin American horror films highlight femicides, political corruption and other human rights abuses

Firstpost  

Guillermo Del Toro’s genre-bending and -blending approach to filmmaking allows him to reach a large and varied audience while also providing sharp social and historical commentary on Spain’s fraught past. Del Toro’s genre-bending and -blending approach to filmmaking allows him to reach a large and varied audience while also providing sharp social and historical commentary on Spain’s fraught past. Despite …

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‘La Llorona’ es más aterradora que nunca en esta reinvención con matices sociales
4 years, 5 months ago

‘La Llorona’ es más aterradora que nunca en esta reinvención con matices sociales

LA Times  

“La Llorona”, que se puede ver desde este fin de semana en la plataforma Shudder, es el tercer largometraje de Jayro Bustamente y su primera incursión en el género del terror. Y es que, bajo el disfraz de la escuela de los sustos y de una popular leyenda latinoamericana, el cineasta ha construido una poderosa cinta de denuncia en la …

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Selections from Cheech Marin’s personal art collection return to Muzeo in Anaheim
5 years, 7 months ago

Selections from Cheech Marin’s personal art collection return to Muzeo in Anaheim

LA Times  

For Muzeo, a publicly funded museum in downtown Anaheim, and for actor and art collector Cheech Marin, it’s a take two. “Papel Chicano Dos” represents the second time Cheech’s Chicano art collection — with a specific focus on works on paper — has been shown at Muzeo. For the veteran actor, whose initial claim to fame was the “Cheech & …

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The Curse of La Llorona rules the box office, maintains top spot in opening weekend
5 years, 8 months ago

The Curse of La Llorona rules the box office, maintains top spot in opening weekend

India TV News  

The Warner Bros. horror film based on a Mexican legend about a woman who murdered her children and wanders the world looking for them brought in $26.5 million according to studio estimates Sunday, putting it in the top spot on its opening weekend — the last before "Avengers: Endgame" arrives to dominate. The inspirational "Breakthrough," the first release from 20th …

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Review: ‘The Curse of La Llorona’ reduces horror legend to silly jumps and scares
5 years, 8 months ago

Review: ‘The Curse of La Llorona’ reduces horror legend to silly jumps and scares

LA Times  

What we call the Conjuring Universe has become a sprawling franchise of big-budget horror-lite spookfests that pull from every urban legend, folk tale and ghost story one can imagine, usually involving vengeful feminine spirits and the women with whom they do battle. We’ve got hauntings, possessions, creepy dolls, demonic nuns and now, the ancient ghost of a murderous mother in …

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