It was a rare and inspiring sight at Milagro Cinemas in Norwalk, California, last week: Two theaters packed with people to see an old black-and-white film on a Wednesday night.Not just any black-and-white film, but the first Mexican film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. “Macario” is a fantastical Spanish-language movie from 1960 by Mexican director Roberto Gavaldón, about a hungry peasant who wishes to have a good meal on the Day of the Dead. The Nov. 5 screen...

“Soy Dracula” isn’t as famous a horror movie catchphrase as Bela Lugosi’s sinister introduction “I am Dracula.” But it should be.“It’s wild that there is a Spanish-language version of ‘Dracula’ that’s even better than the English-language version that everyone loves, but virtually nobody knows about it,” said Peter Murrieta, deputy director of The Sidney Poitier New American Film School at ASU. “But I’m hoping to change that.”Murrieta curated a community screening of the rarely exhibited film at...

Families, students, and community members packed the Santa Ana City Hall courtyard as the Ballet Folklorico Leyenda dance company, wearing large, variously colored feathered headpieces and tops with gems and jewels, performed a ritualistic Aztec dance to pounding drums. The seven musicians in the group Mariachi Folklore then performed as kids, munching on colorful conchas, jumped and danced to the music and parents yelped and cheered at the band.Santa Ana hosted The Chicano Heritage Educational...

Edward Scissorhands is one of my favorite Tim Burton films. I felt like there was definitely a three-way tie between Home Alone, Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands being my favorite movie. As a 90’s baby I was exposed to films that Johnny Depp starred in and I always thought it was interesting to live in a sort of dark Christmas fairytale with a person that had scissors for hands. Still to this day I wonder how different Edward’s character development would have been if his creat

An accomplished and established genre journalist and writer, Justina Bonilla is working on furthering coverage of Latin contributions to the genre with her work on several publications showcasing her work. Now, in honor of Women in Horror Month, I talk with her about her early interest in writing, the process for creating her articles and upcoming projects.

: Hello, and thank you for taking the time to do this. First off, when did you get into horror in general?

: My interest in horror began a

Justina Bonilla can list two reasons why she doesn’t think she has a “beach body.” First, the scars on her legs. Bonilla has severe scarring from large and painful hives caused by allergic reactions to food and medications.

“Fellow classmates, who were not aware of my medical situation, would bully me, saying I had ‘Freddy Krueger legs,’” Bonilla, 26, said. “I was even called ‘Lady Krueger.’” Because of the bullying, Bonilla rarely leaves her house without her legs covered. “I cringe at the tho