{"id":40796,"date":"2023-09-11T00:34:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T04:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40796"},"modified":"2023-08-24T19:37:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T23:37:09","slug":"satanic-hispanics-2022-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/11\/satanic-hispanics-2022-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Satanic Hispanics (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cSatanic Hispanics\u201d really is an experiment that I want to see more of. Not only is it a great horror film, but it\u2019s also a pretty great horror anthology that implements the Latin folklore very well and creatively. It\u2019s an admirably ambitious film one packed with so much talent in front of and behind the camera, and it might even spark some interest by horror fans to delve deeper in to the Latin folklore and monsters. \u201cSatanic Hispanics\u201d is an anthology of five short films from some of the leading Latin filmmakers in the horror genre. The cast in each short are predominantly Latin with a slew of stellar supporting actors and actresses alike.<\/p>\n

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In Mike Mendez\u2019s wrap around segment (from a script by Alejandro Mendez) entitled \u201cThe Traveler\u201d police raid a house in El Paso, and a slew of dead Latinos, with only one survivor. He\u2019s known as The Traveler, played with great self awareness by Efren Ramirez. When they take him to the station for questioning, he tells them those lands are full of magic and talks about the horrors he\u2019s encountered in his long time on this earth. He then spins four tales about portals to other worlds, mythical creatures, demons and the undead–stories about Latin American legends.<\/p>\n

Written and directed by Demian Rugna, \u201cTambien Lo Vi\u201d is a creepy and unnerving story of Gustavo (Demi\u00e1n Salom\u00f3n basically carries this short), a savant who competes in Rubic\u2019s Cube solving tournaments. Under pressure by his sister to win big prize money, he accidentally a way to see into the afterlife that involves patterns around him. \u201cEl Vampiro\u201d by director Eduardo Sanchez and writer Adam Cesare is the humorous tale of a vampire (Hemky Madera, who is just great) stalking victims on Halloween, who forgot to allow for Daylight Savings Time when he was planning his night out. This is a very light hearted albeit well made short with a pretty emotional ending that closes on a funny note.<\/p>\n

Going for a more dire tone, \u201cNahules,\u201d co-written by Shadan Saul and Raynor Shima, and directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero is about a man (played by Ari Gallegos) who finds himself on the wrong side of a powerful witch (Gabriela Ru\u00edz is just terrifying) and her followers. My favorite though is \u201cHammer of Zanzibar\u201d by director Alejandro Brugu\u00e9s and writer Lino K. Villa. This segment opts for more horror comedy as Jonah Ray Rodrigues plays Malcolm, who suspects that his ex-girlfriend Amy may be possessed by a demon, a powerful demon named King Zombie. He comes prepared though with the \u201cHammer of Zanzabar\u201d which he acquires from a weird seller (Jacob Vargas) of occult weaponry.<\/p>\n

This is a great short to close out on as the mix of comedy and horror is great, and Rodrigues delivers a hilarious original song you\u2019ll be singing long after the movie ends. \u201cSatanic Hispanics\u201d is such a great and unique horror anthology complimented by the massive cast and excellent creative team all of whom mix so many interesting themes about the occult, religion, and folklore seamlessly. My fingers are crossed for a sequel.<\/p>\n

Exclusively in Theaters September 14th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cSatanic Hispanics\u201d really is an experiment that I want to see more of. Not only is it a great horror film, but it\u2019s also a pretty great horror anthology that implements the Latin folklore very well and creatively. It\u2019s an admirably ambitious film one packed with so much talent in front of and behind the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[103,259,276,477,1008,1087],"class_list":["post-40796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-anthology","tag-dark-comedy","tag-demons","tag-horror","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40796","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=40796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40798,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40796\/revisions\/40798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}