“I’m getting goosebumps just talking about it,” Rosa Parra admits, reflecting on the power of Spanish-language horror. That sentiment captures the essence of this week’s Critical Thinking episode, where Tomatometer-approved critics Rosa Parra, Carlos Aguilar, and Manuel Betancourt spotlight Spanish-language horror cinema during Hispanic Heritage Month. From the 1931 Spanish Dracula to Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth and Amat Escalante’s The Untamed , the conversation reveals how these films go beyond just scares and preserve history and amplify Hispanic culture and voices.

Manuel Betancourt on La Llorona : I think this is one of the things that a lot of contemporary Latin American filmmakers are doing, which is they’re grounding their horrors in embodied histories. The

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