Welcome to El Cine Underground — where we expose the film history they left us out of. We don’t just watch movies — we dissect the culture, decode the media, all through the Latin lens. We’re here for deep cuts and the movies you never knew existed. Cinema in focus, culture in every frame. Produced & Edited by Angel I. Salinas. Creator & Host: Mariana Da Silva SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring the anomalous, the luminous, and the numinous. We’re a community for creators and fans v...
Latest episodes
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EP. 10 | Ending the Season Hungry: On Macario and Eating The Whole Turkey.
Closing out the year — and our first season — with Macario (1960). A film about hunger, dignity, death, and what it costs to ask for one moment to yourself in a world that demands…
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38 min
EP. 9 | A Technicolor Navidad
In this holiday episode, El Cine Underground dives into Latin Christmas cinema through Mi Niño Tizoc (1972), Santa Claus vs. The Devil (1952), and The Shepherd’s Tale (1991). We ex…
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38 min
EP. 8 | Noirvember: But Make It Latin
Holiday downtime hits different when you spend it in the shadows…For Noirvember, we’re taking you on a cross-continental descent into Latin Noir: Mexico’s political glamour, Hollyw…
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40 min
EP. 7 | Brazilian Cinema: How Brazil Found God in the Camera
Brazilian cinema wasn’t built for comfort—it was built for survival.A handcuffed woman lost at sea (Limite), a drunk confessing to God (O Ébrio), a peasant mistaking a prophet for…
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40 min
Ep . 6 | The Devil Wears a Top Hat: Coffin Joe’s Brazil
The Devil Wears a Top Hat: Coffin Joe’s BrazilThis week, El Cine Underground descends into the world of Brazil’s most infamous horror icon — Zé do Caixão, known to the world as Cof…
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42 min
EP. 5 | Guillermo del Toro: Birth of a Monster Maker
Guillermo del Toro once said, “If you look back at your life and nothing has changed, something is wrong. Sanity is change.” In this episode, we return to Guadalajara — to the mess…
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39 min
EP.4 | Whose Story Is It? Cuban Cinema, Identity & Authorship
What makes a film truly Cuban? Can a story told by outsiders still belong to the culture it portrays? In this episode, we dive into Cuban cinema through Soy Cuba, Memories of Under…
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44 min
EP.3 | Cuban Cinema: Myth or Memoria
Cuba’s revolutionary cinema isn’t just history—it’s an act of rebellion, shot in stark black and white and alive with the tension between power and freedom. These films expose how…
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36 min
Ep. 2 | Mexico Maleficarum
From the vaults, the monsters awake. This episode of El Cine Underground is based on the Mexico Maleficarum film series presented at the Academy Museum with guest curator Abraham C…
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37 min
Ep. 1 | Chicano Cinema Movement: Punk Before Punk
From the picket lines to the projectors, the Chicano Cinema Movement of the ’70s and ’80s was raw, bilingual, and unapologetically political. Born out of the Chicano civil rights s…
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6 min
EL CINE UNDERGROUND TRAILER
This is the trailer for El Cine Underground — your new obsession for Latin film history like you’ve never heard it before. Think classic cinema deep dives with a rebel twist. We un…