Satanic Hispanics is an anthology horror film that’s a little uneven and yet ends so spectacularly, it’s worth watching just to get to its final ten minutes. Like many anthologies, it has a wrap-around/frame story and then its selection of short films, all created by Hispanic directors and starring a mostly Hispanic cast.

I’ll cut to the chase… the frame story feels hand wavingly unnecessary and wildly disconnected from the short stories it sets up. But then it ends in such a bad ass way that I can’t imagine why they didn’t jettison the short films and just flesh it out into its own movie.

The shorts themselves aren’t bad though, even if they are a little uneven. Two of them are comedic while the other two horrific.

The first horror/comedy is a giggle-worthy tale of how hard it is being a vampire in the modern world. You know, having to bring Tide pens with you in case you get blood on your favorite shirt or confusing what happens when daily savings time hits. It’s fairly amusing but treads a little too close to What We Do in the Shadows. But if you want another one of those, it’s pretty funny.

The second one takes half its runtime to reveal its sense of humor… and when it does, it must have been a riot to watch with a packed theater. Very awkwardly funny and fairly unique.

The two more serious stories have good ideas but kind of don’t go anywhere. They probably trade the most in Hispanic folklore so I’m probably missing out on some of the underlying text. They aren’t bad and one shows a particularly brutal and gory fetish.

So it’s kind of a mixed bag with the shorts and a banger of a frame story. It’s just too bad they didn’t flesh out that final ten minutes into its own badass film. Overall though, it’s a worthy enough collection of shorts.

Score: 84