{"id":35885,"date":"2021-10-01T00:02:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T04:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=35885"},"modified":"2021-10-01T00:01:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T04:01:27","slug":"five-more-great-latinx-horror-movie-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/01\/five-more-great-latinx-horror-movie-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Five More Great Latinx Horror Movie Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>October is my favorite month of the year. While it is the month where we get to celebrate Halloween, it\u2019s also National Hispanic Heritage Month<\/a>. I\u2019ve been on a quest lately to find Hispanic and or Latin heroes and heroines from various movies and I thought it just the right time to introduce part two of my original list of Five Great Latinx Horror Movie Heroes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was tough to find some great characters in a genre mostly reserved for Caucasian characters, but overall I think it’s a great way to ring in both occasions.<\/p>\n

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El Santo \u2013 Santo Movie Series
\n<\/strong>Despite not being Mexican, El Santo is a superhero I\u2019d always heard about since I was a child. Though he fought Bad guys he also fought monsters, vampires, and demons. Rodolfo Guzm\u00e1n Huerta, known professionally as El Santo was a Mexican Luchador enmascarado, actor and folk hero. El Santo is one of the most famous and iconic Mexican luchadores, and has been referred to as one of “the greatest legends in Mexican sports.” \u201cEl Santo\u201d became a big screen superhero who fought off zombies, Martians, Witches, Mummies, and oh so much more. He\u2019s a legend.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Pablo \u2013 Ash vs. Evil Dead
\n<\/strong>Pablo is a bit of a cheat here since he\u2019s basically from a TV series, but he\u2019s from a TV Series based on a bitchin\u2019 series of horror movies. So I think it counts. Pablo begins his life as a fan boy for Ash Williams, and quickly becomes his ally in fighting the deadites over the course of the TV series. Along the way he discovers his own powers for fighting the demonic hordes, and even becomes a hero in his own right.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Rondo \u2013 The Devil\u2019s Rejects
\n<\/strong>Rondo is a great anti-hero (Despite being cheaply and lazily killed off in \u201c3 from Hell\u201d) who is introduced in \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Rejects.\u201d Part of the Unholy Two, he\u2019s hired as a bounty hunter tasked with stalking and capturing the Firefly Trio. With their ability to pretty much cut through their bullshit and overpower them, they swiftly cut them at their knees and catch them without fail. I wish we\u2019d seen a lot more of him.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jake \u2013 Quarantine
\n<\/strong>I\u2019m not a huge fan of the remake of \u201c[REC]\u201d but I do enjoy how much more emphases that they put on the side characters this time out. With \u201cQuarantine,\u201d the firefighters given a tad more screen time, including Jay Hernandez\u2019s character Jake. Jake is a firefighter who takes a liking to Jennifer Carpenter\u2019s protagonist, and ends up sticking with her until the end where he\u2019s taken down by the demon horde within the tenement. Tis a sad fate for an interesting hero.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Phoebe \u2013 The Babysitter: Killer Queen
\n<\/strong>After the first \u201cThe Babysitter,\u201d young Cole thought he was free from his sexy, Satanic babysitter, but he\u2019s mistaken. This time around he\u2019s betrayed by his best friend and neighbor Melanie, who also seeks some of that sweet Satanic Juice. But he\u2019s helped by bold, courageous heroine Phoebe, a young girl on a mysterious mission of her own. When she accidentally finds herself in the middle of Melanie\u2019s attempt to sacrifice Cole, she steps up and proves to be a pretty awesome heroine in her own right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October is my favorite month of the year. While it is the month where we get to celebrate Halloween, it\u2019s also National Hispanic Heritage Month. I\u2019ve been on a quest lately to find Hispanic and or Latin heroes and heroines from various movies and I thought it just the right time to introduce part two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[333,477,835,852,922,1087,1221],"class_list":["post-35885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-list-junkies","tag-evil-dead","tag-horror","tag-remake","tag-rob-zombie","tag-sequel","tag-thriller","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35894,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35885\/revisions\/35894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}