The best horror anthologies are more than just haphazard collections of short films mashed together to reach feature length. Movies with a unifying theme or filmmaking style are more successful at holding the audience’s interest, and the Latino-driven anthology Satanic Hispanics makes its unique focus clear. There are still some slightly jarring tonal shifts between the individual segments, which range from heavy and intense to lighthearted and silly, and the framing story doesn’t hold them together as well as it should, but, as an entertaining showcase for a group of underappreciated Latino horror filmmakers, Satanic Hispanics accomplishes its goal.Most of the filmmakers involved with Satanic Hispanics are veterans of other horror anthologies, including Tales of Halloween and the V/H/S and ABCs of Death movies, and they clearly understand how to deliver a compact horror tale that fits within a larger framework. The framing story is often the weakest part of these anthologies, but director Mike Mendez makes his segment “The Traveler” into a complete, mostly satisfying story. It meanders in the middle as the title character (Napoleon Dynamite’s Efren Ramirez) tells the tales that make up the other segments, but it finishes strong to end Satanic Hispanics on a high note.Satanic Hispanics opens with police raiding a warehouse filled with dead bodies in a set-up similar to some of the V/H/S anthologies. They discover only one survivor, a man who calls himself the Traveler and claims that a dangerous supernatural force is chasing him. A pair of detectives (Greg Grunberg and Sonya Eddy) attempt to interrogate the Traveler, who offers vague insinuations and outright lies about his background, all while warning them that this evil entity will come for them if they don’t let him go within 90 minutes. Part of his self-mythologizing involves telling tales about supposed supernatural encounters he’s had throughout his life, although he doesn’t appear onscreen in any of the other segments.RELATED: Shudder’s V/H/S/85 Trailer Teases an 80s Vibe for the Horror Anthology SequelRELATED: REVIEW: Queer Horror Movie Bad Things Gets By on Its Unsettling Vibes
The best horror anthologies are more than just haphazard collections of short films mashed together to reach feature length. Movies with a unifying theme or filmmaking style are more successful at holding the audience’s interest, and the Latino-driven anthology Satanic Hispanics makes its unique focus clear. There are still some slightly jarring tonal shifts between the individual segments, which range from heavy and intense to lighthearted and silly, and the framing story doesn’t hold them together as well as it should, but, as an entertaining showcase for a group of underappreciated Latino horror filmmakers, Satanic Hispanics accomplishes its goal.
Most of the filmmakers involved with Satanic Hispanics are veterans of other horror anthologies, including Tales of Halloween and the V/H/S and ABCs of Death movies, and they clearly understand how to deliver a compact horror tale that fits within a larger framework. The framing story is often the weakest part of these anthologies, but director Mike Mendez makes his segment “The Traveler” into a complete, mostly satisfying story. It meanders in the middle as the title character (Napoleon Dynamite‘s Efren Ramirez) tells the tales that make up the other segments, but it finishes strong to end Satanic Hispanics on a high note.
Satanic Hispanics opens with police raiding a warehouse filled with dead bodies in a set-up similar to some of the V/H/S anthologies. They discover only one survivor, a man who calls himself the Traveler and claims that a dangerous supernatural force is chasing him. A pair of detectives (Greg Grunberg and Sonya Eddy) attempt to interrogate the Traveler, who offers vague insinuations and outright lies about his background, all while warning them that this evil entity will come for them if they don’t let him go within 90 minutes. Part of his self-mythologizing involves telling tales about supposed supernatural encounters he’s had throughout his life, although he doesn’t appear onscreen in any of the other segments.
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