Mike Mendez: We wanted the filmmaker to express their voice and do whatever they wanted to do because that is kind of the challenge. Did you want each story to be tonally different? There are humorous aspects as well as horror. That brought the diversity that we wanted to show in the film. But we also wanted to show stuff from filmmakers who also lived in Latin America. In the case of Eduardo, he came to the US when he was six years old. We have first-generation Americans like Mike, we have some that immigrated here or to Canada like Gigi and Eduardo and myself. We wanted to bring filmmakers that would show the whole Latino experience. We're a whole continent, we're very different, and we have a lot of things in common too, and we wanted to show that. That's great, but we're way more than only Mexico. Then we also wanted South America, so Demián Rugna from Argentina seemed like a natural fit.Īlejandro Brugués: We wanted to show how diverse Latinos are because, usually when you mentioned Latinos, people think of Mexicans. We have Gigi from Mexico, Alejandro from Cuba, my heritage friends El Salvador. It was important to get different filmmakers from all of Latin America. So Alejandro started by reaching out to Ed Sánchez, and I reached out to Gigi, and we went from there. Basically, myself and Alejandro kind of got the ball rolling as far as the idea of like, "Hey, we want to do an all-Latino anthology." And then we set the parameters of, "Okay, let's make it about myths and legends of Latin America." From there, we approached filmmakers who were our friends and whose work we admired and felt would be a good fit for the team. Did you collaborate and direct together, or split them up? There are several different segments that make up this anthology. ![]() And then of course, obviously, to work with very talented filmmakers you admire is always a joy. ![]() We could tell a different unique point of view of what a Latin story is. It wasn't border stories, it wasn't drug cartel stories-we can tell myths about monsters and creatures that, perhaps, people don't know about South America or Mexico or Cuba. I thought one of the things that made us unique was that we got to explore different kinds of Latino stories. Mike Mendez: We were also just looking for a chance for representation, both in front of the camera and behind the camera. Other than having fun with friends, and getting to do something that you're doing for yourself and having fun, I think there was this bigger purpose behind it that was always very inspiring. What we wanted to do was do an anthology where we could tell a lot of stories by ourselves and take back our narrative, and show our diversity behind and in front of the camera. It's getting a tiny little bit better now, but we don't see ourselves reflected in horror, and yet, Latinos are the largest movie-going audience for horror. Maybe you can point someone out here and there, but we weren't seeing ourselves in those movies. None of the horror movies we grew up with had any Latinos. We have talked a lot about this, but Latinos-we have largely been shut out from horror. I couldn't help but say, "F*ck, yeah!"Īlejandro Brugués: When Mike and I first talked about it, it was the appeal of doing an all-Latino horror anthology. I felt that this was such a cool and different and unique idea that filmmakers like myself, who have not had so many opportunities to be as authentic, that this was the project to do it. I just got this random text from Mike that said, "Satanic Hispanics-what do you think?" It just sounded so awesome, but what was super intriguing about it was the set idea of the wraparound, about The Traveler bringing in all of these different stories of Latin America. Gigi Saul Guerrero: When I got approached, the first thing that stood out to me, I love sharing this, was the title. Screen Rant: There are a lot of different scripts and a lot of different genres to get involved in, so what made each of you want to be a part of this horror anthology?
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