11 September 2023
Did spooky season get you in the mood for some thrilling filcks? Why not practice your Spanish as well? Read on for El Patio's top scary Spanish-language movie recommendations!
Halloween wouldn't be complete without some great horror movies to keep everyone on the edge of their seats. And, the Spanish-speaking world has some great horror cinema readily available. From Spain across to Mexico and down to Venezuela, Spanish-language horror is just as engrossing as its English counterpart - plus, you get to see how much you can follow with your Spanish! Here are some of our recommendations for this year's Halloween season.
After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover. As the innocent newcomer navigates a cruel reality while coping with bullies, disquieting rumours of otherworldly visitations chill the bone to the marrow.
A group of amateur paranormal investigators enter an abandoned insane asylum to discover if the stories they have heard are actually true.
Dulce encounters apparitions in her house and unleashes a terrible prophecy. Thirty years later, Dulce, now an old woman, returns to unravel the mystery that has terrorized her for years.
Inside a vertical prison system, inmates are assigned to a level and forced to ration food from a platform that moves between the floors. Directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, The Platform is a twisted social allegory about mankind at its darkest and hungriest.
A cult classic and director Alejandro Amenábar's debut film. While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...
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