¡UY QUE HORROR! A Latinx Horror Movie Podcast

Everyone knows Bela Lugosi's classic film, Dracula , pero did you know that a Spanish language version was being filmed at the same time? Jonny & Aileen watch and discuss George Melford's Spanish language version of Dracula , plus Universal Studios focus on the foreign-language market, and can you use wolfsbane on vampires? Watch the movie here! Make sure to subscribe, rate and review.  And follow...

Hop on the Amazon River barge and get ready to hunt for giant snakes! This week, Jonny & Aileen discuss the 90s cult classic, Anaconda.  Everything from Jon Voight's miserable accent, snake facts, the Amazon's indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation and Jonny & Aileen's love of JLo and Ice Cube in this ridiculous movie.    Remember to Subscribe, Rate & Review! Find us on social media: Twitter: @...

Bueno, it happened.  Jonny & Aileen found the hardest movie to watch for the podcast. *TRIGGER WARNING* Lucio A. Rojas' Chilean horror film, Trauma , is definitely filled with exactly that: TRAUMA! Four friends head to an isolated country house in the backwoods of Chile and are brutally attacked by a man and his son.  This was a really tough watch for Jonny & Aileen, with equally tough discussions...

This week Jonny & Aileen are transported to Mexico in the 80s where curly mullets, power unibrows and dino pajamas totally rule.  Don't Panic , Ruben Galindo Jr.'s tribute to Nightmare on Elm Street, tells of 17 year old Michael who unlocks a murderous evil force from an Ouija board. This one is fun romp you must watch! Watch it here on Shudder! Watch it dubbed in Spanish here! Make sure to follow...

Jonny & Aileen head to a zombie infested Venezuela with this week's movie, Infección.   But this movie goes a lot deeper than sprinting zombies, desolate apocalyptic roads, and all or nothing survival (which it has plenty of!)  Using the tropes of zombie films, director Flavio Pedota's Infección highlights the Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis and the Venezuelan Refugee Crisis.    Watch the movie her...

Jonny and Aileen get deep into the moors of Colombia with this week's film.  A military group on a rescue mission encounter a mysterious woman.  Will their minds play games with them or is the mysterious woman more than she seems? Like the movies Alien, The Thing, Blair Witch Project with a splash of Full Metal Jacket, this movie left our hosts feeling TENSE.  

Welcome back to Argentina! Jonny & Aileen watch and discuss Sudor Frío.  Three friends are held hostage in a house of horrors which includes such terrifying things as conservative old men catfishing young girls on the internet, feral women trapped in a pitch black basement and the worst of all tortures: MATH FORMULAS! Will our hosts get out alive? 

They're coming to get you, Barbara!  Jonny & Aileen that is.  In this episode, our hosts discuss the classic George A. Romero film, it's contributions to the now universal zombie rules, his dramatization of social issues using the horror genre, as well as Romero's Latino identity and his impact on the Latinx community.  

The moon is full in Brazil and Jonny & Aileen are feeling hungry for meat! As Boas Maneiras  is a fantasy-horror-musical (yes, musical!) that left our hosts crying more than once in this episode.  Werewolves, lesbian love, Festa Junina (the second most popular festival in Brazil after Carnaval) and so much more in this week's episode. 

Nos vamos a Belize!  Jonny and Aileen watch the first major feature length movie to be entirely produced in Belize.  A curse has fallen on the town of San Antonio after some Gringos blow open a cave and release the mythical demon woman, Xtabai.  Get ready for wanderlust for Belize, folklore and low budget fun!    

Jonny & Aileen return to Peru with the found footage style film, La Entidad.  A group of film students want to make a documentary about "reaction videos" and it does NOT go well for them.  Is it a curse?  Is it a ghost?  Can you capture it on an iPhone? Join our hosts to find out just what the hell this Entidad wants from us!    

Jonny and Aileen are off to Uruguay for the first time!  La Casa Muda is a single shot style film with a lot of jump scares, a fun twist and that lovely acento Uruguayo permeating throughout.  Will Jonny and Aileen get out of La Casa Muda alive?!

VEINTE EPISODIOS! Jonny and Aileen celebrate their 20 episode milestone by watching this English language Mexican film from the seventies.  There's everything a horror lover could want: Satan! Possession! Obsession! Nuns! Lots and lots of nudity! This was a wild ride that left Jonny and Aileen reeling in the best way possible.

Jonny and Aileen commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Robert Rodriguez classic, From Dusk Till Dawn. Jonny has fond memories of watching it in his youth and it's Aileen's first watch so, this episode is lleno de opiniones!

Jonny and Aileen having a confusing time in this episode.  Will a shoddy, severely cropped, obviously filmed from the television, YouTube video of this Colombian movie give them a hard time?  Kind of.  But that doesn't stop them from getting spooked!

Jonny and Aileen head to the Durán Sanatarium in this week's episode, with the mockumentary/found footage horror film from Costa Rica, El Sanatorio.  Will the crew survive filming inside the old haunted hospital?  Will they follow the rules of how to deal with ghosts?  Will that guy please stop playing guitar?!    

We're heading back to Brazil in this episode!  Jonny and Aileen discuss the film Morto Não Fala (The Nightshifter), talking to dead people when you work at the morgue plus more Brazil memories from their childhood.  

In this episode, Jonny and Aileen record together, in the same room, face to face for the first time!  They talk all about the trippy, creepy, artsy Chilean movie "La Casa Lobo" (The Wolf House), including the movie's inspiration, La Colonia Dignidad, describing art poorly and WHOA THAT WAS AMAZING but also really creepy...   

Feliz Año Nuevo!! Jonny & Aileen welcome 2021 by going to Venezuela and discussing the twists and turns in the  film, "La Casa del Fin de los Tiempos" (The House at the End of Time).  Are there ghosts in the house? Does the house travel through time? Will the children be annoying?  All will be revealed!

Ho Ho Holy hell, what is going on with this movie?!  Jonny and Aileen watch a Mexican Christmas classic and promptly descend into madness while screaming ¡YO NO QUIERO SER MALA, YO QUIERO SER BUENA! Feliz Navidad a tod@s!

Hop on this bus and vámonos a Panama!  Jonny and Aileen talk about the first ever Panamanian horror movie, Diablo Rojo (PTY).  They discuss the folklore behind La Tulivieja, the culture significance of the buses known as the Diablo Rojo and mucho mas!

Jonny and Aileen have something a little different for the holiday season on this week's episode.  Suggested by  Lovely Latinx Listener, Whitney Collazo, they watch and talk about her micro-short film, Gruss Vom Krampus.  Jonny and Aileen discuss the origins of Krampus,  Latinx folklore beasts and how to pronounce Santa Cloh. Happy Holidays!

It's our 10th episode!!  To celebrate, Jonny and Aileen break the long awaited seal on Guillermo Del Toro's filmography and begin the journey with El Espinazo del Diablo (The Devil's Backbone).  Putting aside the rule of NO FILMS FROM SPAIN, Jonny and Aileen discuss the Spanish Civil War, it's many ghosts and the many forms that they can take.   

Jonny and Aileen stay in the US this time around, but we have the rarest item of them all: A FULL LATINX CAST! In this episode, we talk witches, the Cholo stereotype, and how having a Latinx crew behind the scenes is much more important than it seems.  

Jonny and Aileen head into the lovely waters of the Caribbean with the Cuban horror comedy, Juan De Los Muertos.  In this episode we learn a bit about Cuban history, their LGBTQ+ community, and do we always have to like our protagonists?  Viva Cuba Libre!!