Un Mundo Extraño: Watch 5 Wonderfully Weird Horror Films in San Diego

We live in a strange world: a world in which the nations of Latin America can produce Oscar winners, box-office busting popular comedies and shamelessly schlocky horror flicks as though Hollywood hadn’t actually dominated global film production for the better part of the last century. But that’s not the idea behind the Un Mundo Extraño Showcase at the upcoming 22nd annual San Diego Latino Film Festival. No, the idea is that our world isn’t as normal as we think, and the five films and seven shorts featured in the showcase deal with the unusual, the horrible, and the macabre in ways that reveal the dark mysteries lying beneath our reality.

Co-presented by the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival and the Film Geeks at the Digital Gym, Un Mundo Extraño will bring the San Diego area a horrific selection of recent genre fare from Argentina, Brazil, Peru and beyond, including a special screening of the Spanish-language version of 1931’s Dracula. From symbolic science fiction to zombie apocalypses to simmering psychological horror, this special series is just a taste of the diverse genre offerings coming out of the region, and will give you a few more reasons to sleep with the light on.

Also, be sure not to miss La parka, the school film project that brought a Mexico City-based Nicaraguan film student to international attention with an Oscar nomination for Best Live Action Short.