Monstras

Happy Halloween! We explore spooky tales about a woman who dances with the devil and a priest who hears a dead man's confession. With special guests Coffee+Chisme!

Tw: horny ghosts, death, & Satan

Music by Patrick Mullens

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We review What we do in the Shadows! A show about four lame vampire roommates living together with their overworked and underappreciated familiar. 

This is not a spoiler free review, we do go over major plot points. 

Music by Patrick Mullens

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An aging military general guilty of genocide comes face to face with his past misdeeds in the shape of an Indigenous dark haired woman...  

We review the powerful 2019 movie La Llorona by Jayro Bustamante, which premiered on Shudder on Thursday, August 6th.  If you want to listen to our short spoiler free final thoughts you can forward to 49:30.   

Music by Patrick Mullens

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77 years ago in the quiet town of Parícutin, Mexico, a farmer encountered a fissure that began spewing ash and sulfur. Pretty soon, that fissure grew into a volcano that buried the entire town in lava. In this episode, we explore the the day hell opened up and examine the folklore and myths that the Parícutin volcano gave birth to. 

TW: hell, satan, cooked babies (fictional, not real ones) 

If you want to try the tongue twister at the end of the episode, here it is: El pueblo de Parangaricutirimícuaro se va a desparangaricutirimicuarizar. Quien logre desparangaricutirimicuarizarlo primero será un gran desparangaricutirimicuarizador.

Music by Patrick Mullens

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The word goth often conjures up images of people dressed all in black, with black hair, black lipstick, and pale skin. But goth culture has crossed borders and this subculture has attracted people from all over the world, including Latin America and Los Angeles. In this episode we interview Professor Desirée A. Martín, who gives us an overview of what Latinx goth is, its origins, and more! 

For more information about Desirée A. Martín, please check out her book here. 

Theme Music by Patrick Mullens

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This week we review and discuss the first episode of the new Penny Dreadful series, City of Angels. This series is a dark fantasy set in 1930's Los Angeles and centers on a Latinx family. It features Mexican folklore, music, and culture prominently along with our favorite scythe wielding mythological figure...

We recommend watching the episode before listening, which you can find for free on Amazon. 

Theme music by Patrick Mullens

TW: Nazi's, racism, murder, the LA river, and spoilers! 

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In this episode we explore the creepy world of El Cucuy, a Mexican monster with very strong European ties and origins. Listen to how this shape shifting monster has been terrifying children for centuries...

Theme song by Patrick Mullens

Music Credits: Lullaby Music Box, Door opening, footsteps, vocals by Alicia Calvo

In this episode we explore Guillermo de Toro's first feature length film, Cronos. Originally released in 1993, it stars Federico Luppi, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath, Claudio Brook and a very young Ron Perlman! 

Just a warning: there are massive spoilers and some body horror mentioned. 

Starting around 1545 a series of epidemics decimated the already ravaged Indigenous population of "New Spain" or present day Mexico. It is the worst epidemic in Mexico's history. The mysterious illness still baffles modern researchers. We continue our exploration of disease and it's affects on the Indigenous populations by exploring how small pox was partially responsible for bringing down the Incan Empire. And how from that destruction a world ending myth was born...

 TW: disease, epidemics, horrifying symptoms, The Spanish (as usual), & conquistadores

Theme song by Patrick Mullens

Healers have always been coveted for their extensive knowledge in how to relieve pain and cure ailments. Curanderos, a combination of Indigenous and Spanish practices, have been an integral part of Latinx/Latin American culture. In this month's episode we try to uncover some of those practices, along with their origins. 

TW: mention of broken bones, sickness, and GOOP

Theme song by Patrick Mullens