El Cine Underground

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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 creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions.

Episodes

  1. 29/10/2025

    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 Coffin Joe. Created — and lived — by filmmaker José Mojica Marins, Coffin Joe is the undertaker who mocked God, tormented women, and became a national legend in the process. Watching these films wasn’t easy. They’re brutal, blasphemous, and often cruel — and as a woman, sitting through them felt like opening an old wound. But vulnerability is part of the work. As filmmaker Lourdes Portillo once said, “If you are going to document a culture, it is your responsibility to show the good and the bad.” Coffin Joe is both. He’s what happens when art, ego, and dictatorship collide — when horror becomes the only language left to tell the truth. Step inside the coffin. The Devil Wears a Top Hat: Coffin Joe’s Brazil — streaming now on El Cine Underground. Created by and hosted by Mariana Da Silva Produced and edited by Angel I. Salinas SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. #FilmReview #MovieAnalysis #CinemaHistory #IndieFilms #FilmCriticism #DirectorInterviews #BehindTheScenes #FilmCulture #Screenwriting #FilmFestivals #MovieRecommendations #FilmTheory #MovieTrivia #ClassicFilms#FilmIndustry #DocumentaryFilms #GenreDeepDive #CultMovies  Presented by El Cine — where Latin cinema meets rebellion and reverence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    40 min
  2. 08/10/2025

    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 messy, inspired beginnings of one of cinema’s greatest visionaries. Before Pan’s Labyrinth or The Shape of Water, a young del Toro was making short films like Geometría in cramped rooms, experimenting with latex, blood, and the beauty of the grotesque. Birth of a Monster Maker traces how those early experiments held the DNA of everything to come: the monsters built by hand, the mythology stitched with Catholic guilt, and the obsession with finding tenderness inside terror. It’s the story of how Guillermo del Toro learned to speak through his creatures — and how he turned horror into empathy, and cinema into sanctuary. by Angel I. Salinas SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. #FilmReview #MovieAnalysis #CinemaHistory #IndieFilms #FilmCriticism #DirectorInterviews #BehindTheScenes #FilmCulture #Screenwriting #FilmFestivals #MovieRecommendations #FilmTheory #MovieTrivia #ClassicFilms#FilmIndustry #DocumentaryFilms #GenreDeepDive #CultMovies Presented by El Cine — where Latin cinema meets rebellion and reverence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    42 min
  3. EP.3 | Cuban Cinema: Myth or Memoria

    10/09/2025

    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 control—bullied in by governments or disguised as love—chokes our ability to live fully. Want to watch them? Lucía is currently streaming on the Criterion Channel JustWatchThe Criterion Collection. Death of a Bureaucrat can be watched for free on the Internet Archive Internet Archive. This week we dive into how Cuban cinema taught us that real revolution—whether in society or in intimacy—begins when we refuse to let anyone, no matter how ‘well-meaning’, tell us who to be. Listen in and step into the frame of resistance. Created and Hosted by Mariana Da Silva Prouduced and Edited by Angel I. Salinas SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. #FilmReview #MovieAnalysis #CinemaHistory #IndieFilms #FilmCriticism #DirectorInterviews #BehindTheScenes #FilmCulture #Screenwriting #FilmFestivals #MovieRecommendations #FilmTheory #MovieTrivia #ClassicFilms#FilmIndustry #DocumentaryFilms #GenreDeepDive #CultMovies #FilmSoundtrack #LatinCinema #LatinFilmHistory#LatinFilmCulture #LatinxCinema #CinemaLatino #LatinFilmLegacy #LatinxFilmmakers #LatinScreenStories#LatinFilmPodcast #LatinFilmVoices #LatinFilmCritique #LatinxDirectors #LatinCinemaUncovered #LatinFilmDeepDive #CinemaDeLatinoamérica #LatinFilmDiscussion #LatinxFilmCommunity #LatinCinemaNow #LatinFilmReel #UndergroundLatinCinema #CineLatino #RaícesDelCine #LatinxCinema #CulturaEnPantalla #CineConSabor #HistoriasLatinas #LatinoFilmmakers #CineIndependiente #VocesLatinas #CineDeRaíz #CulturaYReel#LatinxDirectors #PantallaLatina #CineSubterráneo #NarrativasLatinas #CineConIdentidad #CinemaLatinoamericano#HistoriasEnPantalla #ReelLatino #CineAuténtico Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    44 min
  4. 13/08/2025

    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 uncover the stories, the culture, and the wild films that shaped Latin America’s screen legacy. Ready to go underground? Press play and start your journey. SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. #FilmReview #MovieAnalysis #CinemaHistory#IndieFilms #FilmCriticism #DirectorInterviews#BehindTheScenes #FilmCulture #Screenwriting#FilmFestivals #MovieRecommendations#FilmTheory #MovieTrivia #ClassicFilms#FilmIndustry #DocumentaryFilms#GenreDeepDive #CultMovies#FilmSoundtrack #LatinCinema #LatinFilmHistory#LatinFilmCulture #LatinxCinema#CinemaLatino #LatinFilmLegacy#LatinxFilmmakers #LatinScreenStories#LatinFilmPodcast #LatinFilmVoices#LatinFilmCritique #LatinxDirectors#LatinCinemaUncovered #LatinFilmDeepDive #CinemaDeLatinoamérica#LatinFilmDiscussion#LatinxFilmCommunity#LatinCinemaNow #LatinFilmReel#UndergroundLatinCinema #CineLatino #RaícesDelCine #LatinxCinema #CulturaEnPantalla #CineConSabor#HistoriasLatinas #LatinoFilmmakers#CineIndependiente #VocesLatinas#CineDeRaíz #CulturaYReel#LatinxDirectors #PantallaLatina#CineSubterráneo #NarrativasLatinas#CineConIdentidad #CinemaLatinoamericano#HistoriasEnPantalla #ReelLatino #CineAuténtico Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    6 min

Trailer

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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 creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions.