𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙨

After a long year I can finally say that we are on Halloween Season, and I love that. This celebration is basically almost starting, and because of that I want to write a little about two classic horror movies that I watched some years ago.

 

First of all, I have to admit that I've always felt interested in everything that were a little dark, creepy or horrific. However, I remember doing so mostly with English spoken stuff (With series like Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Goosebumps and movies like Coraline and Beetlejuice as well), and that, as a person that has Spanish as his first language was kind of conflicting, because there was a lot of good creations made on Latin America, but I was just ignoring them to prioritize foreign films.

 

About some years ago, I started watching more things created by Latin American people. It was so shocking to know that there were so many horror/terror movies filmed in Mexico during the 1950-1980's. 

 

One of them, for example, was El Vampiro (1957) by Fernando Méndez, that tells the story, as you may expect, of the count and vampire Karol de Lavud (a.k.a. Duval) and his desire of a woman called Marta that just arrived on Puebla. It has its own sequel called El ataúd del vampiro (1958), but that's for another day.

At the same time, Hasta el viento tiene miedo (1968) by Carlos Enrique Taboada it's also a really good way to enter into the horror stuff. It narrates the story of a group of girls in a boarding school and a ghost that wants to murder the director of that place, because she was indirectly guilty of her death.

Alongside these movies, I recommend you some titles like: La tía Alejandra; Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas; El libro de piedra and Veneno para las hadas.