Dread’s Satanic Hispanics gives the audience a fun, yet spooky thrill ride with no hold-ups or disturbances.

You may be asking what is an anthology film, it is a single film consisting of several short films with each story complete in itself and distinguished from the other, though everything ties directly together by a single theme or synopsis. Sometimes each one is directed by a different film director. Dread’s Satanic Hispanics is an anthology film split into five story chapters by five directors. The main focus of the film is ​when the police raid a house in El Paso, they find it full of dead Latinos, and only one survivor. He’s known as “The Traveler,” and when they take him to the station for questioning he tells them those lands are full of magic and talks about the horrors he’s encountered in his long time on this earth, about portals to other worlds, mythical creatures, demons and the undead. 

All of the actors did their jobs properly to bring this horrifying characters to life. We have actors Efren Ramirez, Greg Grunberg, Hemky Madera, Jonah Ray Rodrigues, Patricia Velásquez, Jacob Vargas, Ari Gallegos, Demian Salomon, Christian Rodrigo, and Michael C. Williams. It’s amazing how most actors in each chapter have chewed up wildly as their involvement in the film is much too important for their own characters. 

Mike Mendez, Demián Rugna, Eduardo Sánchez, Gigi Saul Guerrero, and Alejandro Brugués  are the main directors of the film for each story chapter. As directors, all five of them did what they could to make this nearly-two-hour-movie fun and amusing. They’re trying to tell their own stories based on their original ideas and then just put them all together in one big showcase like a film festival movie for film festival movie goers. They also brought heavy influences from several anthology films, like Twilight Zone: The Movie, Trilogy of Terror, Heavy Metal, and the V/H/S franchise. Though the pacing is slow and long since the film is roughly 113 minutes long. 

Dread’s Satanic Hispanics is like a Hispanic version of the Twilight Zone. I’ll be honest to you, it looks interesting to watch but it’s not Grade-A interesting for that matter. And even though horror movies aren’t my thing as mentioned from my previous movie reviews on horror films, I still watch them anyway to see if it’s good or not. I’m doing my best to stay away from what other critics would say about this film, but it does what it’s supposed to do in giving the audience a fun, yet spooky thrill ride with no hold-ups or disturbances being barred. To me, I think this film is a safer bet for Latino and Hispanic audiences and moviegoers since this is a film that features Hispanic characters as main leads. Though, be wanted, this film contains some strong language and scary images that may frighten young children.

GRADE: B

Photo credit: Dread/Epic Pictures