#Tigers Are Not Afraid

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mike flanagan's favorite horror movies

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Come on Night Country lovers! Let's get it out of its rotten audience score and defeat the racist/misogynistic losers complaining about it being "woke"

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Tenoch Huerta as Servando "El Chino" Esparza in Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)

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chino, darling, that’s not how you communicate with a kid 😓

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Women in Film Challenge 2023: [26/52] Tigers Are Not Afraid, dir. Issa López (Mexico, 2017)

We forget that we are princes, warriors, tigers, when the things from outside come to get us.

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I watch 2-3-4 horror movies with friends on discord every weekend, very often themed.

This time they're honoring (is that a good term when it's horror movies?) Hispanic Heritage month with Tigers are Not Afraid, for starters.

That was a rough. Goddamm. Lots of triggers - death, child death, gun violence, I'm sure there are more.

Those kids - such good actors. I hope they were careful to make off-screen time as good-natured as possible, to combat the darkness.

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Tenoch Huerta Mejía as El Chino in Vuelven (2017), dir. Issa López

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[end-of-the-world-optimist]

If you enjoyed True Detective Night Country, please watch Tigers Are Not Afraid (Vuelven) written and directed by Issa López

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Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017) Director: Issa Lopez

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Let's see, today I worked in my studio and started listening to a new horror movie podcast. It's good, and I needed something with a backlog, because I'm caught up on the ones I want to catch up on, and I'm current on the ones I keep up with, so. Random Horror 9 has been on a streak of films I've already seen, which I have enjoyed, and I'm delighted that they're doing Slaxx (2020) next week, because I think they're expecting pure goofy camp. The premise doesn't seem like one that will have Topical Themes, I know this from experience.

¡Uy Que Horror! has me in the mood for Latin American horror, I suppose.

Tigers are Not Afraid (2019)

Fairy tale rules: established.

Oh no, this ragtag group of urchins living of rooftops is kinda like the rag tag group of urchins from We Are Little Zombies (2019), but less whimsical, since they're orphaned and displaced by gang violence.

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Stream Announcements

hi all! September's going to be a special month!

in honor of Latin American Heritage Month, we'll be streaming a different horror film by a modern latine director every Friday.

on 09/01 at 9:00pm EST, we'll be streaming the ghost film Vuelven (Tigers are Not Afraid; 2017) by Mexican director Issa López.

additionally, the Monstrous Monday theme for September is going to be creature features. we'll be starting that on 09/04 with the American film King Kong (1933) at 9:00pm EST.

a restream the following Sunday may be available depending on mod availability. if you’re over 18 and would like to watch, DM me for an invite to the server.

Vuelven: after her mother is taken by the cartel, a young girl is beset by a ghost and joins a gang of orphans to survive.

it's in Spanish with a runtime of 1 hour 23 minutes. it's unrated but i would give it an R. it features:

moderate violence and gore

child abuse

child death

references to human trafficking

torture

King Kong: when a production team travels to a remote island to film a movie, the lead actress is abducted by a giant ape.

it's in English with a 1 hour 40 minute runtime. it's unrated but i would suggest PG-13. it features:

violence and gore (very dated and in black and white)

notable anti-black racism and xenophobia (uncritically perpetuated by the film; endemic of the time)

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Vuelven (Tigers Are Not Afraid)

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Vuelven, aka They Return, widely knowns as Tigers Are Not Afraid, belongs in the camp of horror that houses La Llorona and Devil’s Backbone, along with films like Empire of the Sun. A heartbreaking Mexican cry of despair where the haunting becomes the haunts.

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why I shouldn't be allowed to scrapbook ft. My Winona Ryder pillow

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tigers are not afraid is in many ways the platonic ideal of magical realism (for me at least) because the magic is so perfectly suited to the realism. there’s no contradiction or detraction. estrella’s wishes, the trail of blood that follows her, the little stuffed tiger, all of it— masterfully underlines what she’s living. and i love the ambiguity wrt how the plot works both if you take the magic literally or allegorically. really really good movie