Monstruos 3: The Ghosts of Latin America (HHN 2025)

[Spookies n' Stuff]

I would also add that I don't think it's a useful substitute for meaningful political action. We've been doing this for more than 10 years and it's clear that bringing up awareness to abhorrent views doesn't make the person speaking them, nor their ideas, less powerful.

I'd argue, if anything, the vocal online backlash ("""cancel culture""" for want of a better term) actually made things worse. The backlash to the backlash has been, well, not great Bob.

I'm not saying we shouldn't condemn views that harm people, but I am saying that the personal isn't political. Buying a Harry Potter book, or not buying it, is not a political act.

Spoiler: Spoilering my final thoughts on this cuz I was already writing this but don't wanna derail any further

I think theres shades of truth to all of this, it's obviously a nuanced issue, the main disagreement I would have is that I think awareness still does less harm than apathy or ignorance, it isn't the fault of persecuted groups that non-persecuted people are annoyed by them drawing attention to their pesecution and asking for support, especially in the case of potter where JK has directly stated that she intends to put the profits from books and merchandise sales into backing anti-trans political legislation, thats the point where the personal does become the political.

The main issue is that corporations don't care about awareness in itself, they aren't people and they don't care about people, they care about money, the point of bringing awareness is to build solidarity in the people, in hopes that that solidarity can motivate real political action and affect their spending choices so that corporations do take notice. Minority groups don't have the power on their own to motivate mass political change, the whole point is to get the people it doesn't directly affect to care so they can use their power to help. It only makes things worse to give up and let the people that need help get swallowed up in silence.

anyways

Back on the topic of Monstruos, something I haven't really seen people brought up, it's kinda interesting that we're seeing the end of this trilogy, which has otherwise adapted a lot of the characters we saw in the Pueblo Del Terror scarezone, but there's still a few we never got to see fleshed out.
Namely Mictlantecuhtli and Chupacabra. Especially in the case of the former I feel like it would've been really cool to build on the Aztec aesthetic we saw with them and Terror de las Momias. Maybe they just feel like it would be too much to scale into a full house with the kind of budget they're dealing with? But it feels like a missed opportunity to me, I've never really seen that kinda theme in a haunt before especially when I feel like we've been lacking some truly unique originals in Hollywood as of late.

 

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