When police raid a house in El Paso, they find it full of dead Latinos, and only one survivor. He’s known as The Traveler, and when they take him to the station for questioning, he tells them those lands are full of magic and talks about the horrors he’s encountered in his long time on this earth, about portals to other worlds, mythical creatures, demons and the undead. Stories about Latin American legends.
히스패닉 호러 스토리, Байки на Хэллоуин, Historias Satánicas, 拉美异灵, 撒旦邪靈
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South Korea18
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
USAR
Italy
MexicoB-15
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Mexico
South Korea
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Starring - Female 4 Front: El Horror Cabron de Gigi Saul Guerrero
REVIEW FOR NAHUALES
Wrapping up my Gigi’s marathon with another great folklore horror joint with stunning cinematography and creative and pretty repulsive-looking characters bringing evil to the world with their bloody and gory ritual. You got ugly-a**-looking witches ripping their skins off. Gnarly, gnarly stuff. The minimalist outfit is still striking. Performances are all great, especially when our lead man delivers on the gradual madness that evades him. I can’t speak for the whole anthology, but this is one worth checking out.
Starring - Female 4 Front: El Horror Cabron de Gigi Saul Guerrero
TODAY SCHEDULE
Rage and Honor
Rage and Honor II
Nahuales (Satanic Hispanic)
Crash!
Strong collection of cine-vignettes with a Latinx edge.
Feels like it has something tonally for everyone.
Also: Jonah Ray going full Chow Yun Fat may have peaked my 2023.
Well this sure took a while to get from the festival circuit to streaming - and unfortunately not in time for Halloween. Was it worth the wait?
For me, yes and no. Satanic Hispanics is a horror anthology by five Latino filmmakers, and like most anthologies it has its hits and misses. But it saves the best ones for last, and I was smiling when it ended. Segments by appearance:
- “The Traveller” (Directed by Mike Mendez)
This is the wraparound/between segments piece. El Paso Police find a building full of dead Latinos, and one survivor, who calls himself The Traveller of the title (Efren Ramirez). This segment sets the stage well, with a lot of blood coupled with dark…
Everyone knows I adore a good horror anthology and that’s exactly what this is! Not just an anthology but a very 90’s style one with the whole “suspect brought in for questioning” wraparound to tell the stories and lots of fun practical effects.
I’m not going to break down each segment because there are plenty of other reviews that do and also I’m just super lazy. But! I can tell you they were all fun and ranged from very scary to very funny and the creature design in the wraparound story was great. Really works well off the insanely underrated ghost design from The Gravedancers and the more of that we see, the better. That whole segment was giving Tales…
I left the theatre
Amusing; anthological; choppy; low-budget; uneven; unscary.
A horror anthology that actually came out in theaters in the 2020s! Limited release but still, right there at my local Regal on opening weekend. As the title explains, its sense of the macabre is enmeshed in Hispanic culture, its tales directed by vets of that ethnicity (Eduardo "Blair Witch" Sanchez, Mike Mendez of "Big Ass Spider!", Alejandro Brugues, Demian "Terrified" Rugna, and Gigi Saul Guerrero, all of whom have also dabbled in other horror anthologies over the past decade), populated by mostly Latin actors and taking place in Mexico, Central America, etc., dealing with drug cartels, native myth and the like. The hopscotching tones range from bizarre to broadly wacky to intensely serious to cheeky fun. Not as graphic…
Satanic Hispanics is an anthology horror film that's a little uneven and yet ends so spectacularly, it's worth watching just to get to its final ten minutes. Like many anthologies, it has a wrap-around/frame story and then its selection of short films, all created by Hispanic directors and starring a mostly Hispanic cast.
I'll cut to the chase... the frame story feels hand wavingly unnecessary and wildly disconnected from the short stories it sets up. But then it ends in such a bad ass way that I can't imagine why they didn't jettison the short films and just flesh it out into its own movie. It co-stars Greg Grunberg and a guy so charismatic (Efrem Ramirez), my brain short circuited…
Satanic Hispanic is an all Hispanic horror anthology that is a ton of fun. It’s the perfect movie for El Dia De Los Muertos.
It includes a wraparound story and four horror shorts each with a different director. The stories in order are scary, funny, weird, and silly. I really enjoyed the first nightmare. It was was a creative story, and it left me wanting more.
The Hammer of Zanzibar can lay that shit down
Satanic Hispanics was that horror anthology that had some comedic tone and always ready to serve up the blood in every segment.
Here's what was in the anthology:
Tambien Lo Vi - Bloody and gore makes for an interesting reward for solving a Rubik's cube. Directed by Demián Rugna. 3.5/5
El Vampiro - Feeling very What We Do in the Shadows? with this and it worked for the segment at times. Directed by Eduardo Sánchez. 3/5
Nahaules - Quite the wild ritual in every sense of the world. Directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero. 3/5
The Hammer of Zanzibar - Directed by Alejandro Brugués. The story they got from the store owner was something. Take Evil Dead and just sub Ash…
I'm not the biggest fan of anthology movies. But I enjoyed this one quite a bit. It even manages to have a fun wraparound, mainly thanks to Efren Ramirez's performance and a really cool creature design at the end. The other stories are at least minimally a hit too. My favourite probably being the one about a past his prime vampire having a last night on the town directed by Eduardo Sanchez.
