BOO-enas Noches, guys and ghouls. Welcome to the first-ever Halloween edition of Jr’s Cineblog, where we will be dissecting the best terror films to watch if you want to get spooked… en Español!!! In this list, we will bring to you the top horror, thriller and suspense films produced in Spanish. So grab your chili con carne popcorn… and cuddle up next to that special Mamasita or Papacito, and grant them the protection and tranquility they need from oh-so-terrifying Spanish celluloid horror. Here is the list, with a brief description of the films so you can run to your Netflix Queue list and put it fist in line… just in time for el dia de Halloween!!

1. El Espinazo del Diablo

( - The Devil’s Backbone - )

Directed by the great Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy & Pan’s Labyrinth), this film is set in Spain at the end of the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War. Carlos, a 12 year old boy, was abandoned by his tutor at the orphanage in Santa Lucia, an imposing building isolated in the middle of a desolate wasteland. There, he will discover the tragic secret that lies between the walls of the hostile orphanage. All hell breaks loose when a ghost and an evil care-taker haunt the orphanage.

2. LA LLORONA

(The Wailer)

Based on a popular legend, this Mexican film is about a woman who drowned and threw her children in a nearby irrigation ditch, never to be found by la Llorona again. And so her wails, “Ay Mis niños, donde están mis niños?” or “Oh my children, where are my children?” are always heard on nights where she is cited.

As a sentence for her crimes, the woman is executed. Time passes and the descendants of the llorona’s lover decide to hire a nanny to care for their children, but they will get quite a surprise.

3. Tuno Negro

Black Tuno

A psychotic murderer who infiltrates a group of students and academics, Salamanca targets his victims through the Internet. With the premise that stupidity kills, the serial killer commits his crimes with a simple pattern: taking the lives of the worst students in each class.

4. Hasta el viento tiene miedo

( Even the wind is afraid )

This remake of a Mexican film from ‘68 shows how the ghost of a student who committed suicide is causing problems for many students, who are punished and must stay at school during the holidays.

That's when the ghost takes over the body of one female student to take revenge on the school authority.

5.TESIS

( - Thesis - )

“My name is Angela, they will kill me,” says the protagonist in this movie, the feature debut of Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar.

The tape shows how a university is conducting a so-called snuff-movie, in which the protagonists of the films really die during filming.

The film won many awards and crowned Amenábar as one of the kings of Spanish horror films.

6. Cronocrimenes

( - Chronocrimes - )

A man accidentally travels to the past and spends time with his younger self.

A naked girl in the middle of a forest. A strange individual with his face covered with a pink bandage.

A disquieting mansion on a hillside. Pieces of a puzzle that lead to unpredictable and unusual pattern of crimes.

Who is the murderer? Who is the victim?

7. El Orfanato

( - The Orphanage - )

This chilling film, Academy Award nominee for best Foreign film, produced by Guillermo del Toro, shows Laura, a mother who decides to reopen the orphanage in which she grew up in a remote place in Spain.

Her adopted son, Simon, is quickly accustomed to the loneliness of the place, and soon he starts making very strange friends who invite him to participate in macabre games.

The disappearance of Simon confirms that at the orphanage horrible things have happened... but the worst is still to come...

8. Kilómetro 31

( - Kilometer 31 - )

This Mexican film is also based on the popular legend of La Llorona, while mixing more suspense and drama.

After a horrible accident, Agata is in a coma. Her sister, Catherine, begins to share the experiences of Agata and wants to solve the mystery of her sister’s accident.

She soon discovers that the legend of Kilometer 31, where her sister crashed, seems more real than what is told in the legend.

9. El dia de la bestia

( - The Day of the Beast - )

A Spanish priest believes he has found the secret message of Revelation.This message is that the Antichrist will be born on December 25, 1995, in Madrid.Convinced that he should prevent this satanic birth, the priest joins a young death metal fan and tries by all means to find a place in Madrid where the event will take place, but not everything is as easy as it sounds because it will be very difficult to contact the "evil-doers" and find the place of the satanic birth.

10. Visitante de Invierno

( - Winter Visitor - )

In this Argentine film, Ariel Lambert is a young man who must stay in a quiet and calm place after being diagnosed with a psychological disorder.

In the middle of winter, he moves with his mother and sister to Villa Mar, a small village that is practically deserted.

There, little by little, Ariel discovers that in a neighboring house, children go in, and they never seem to come back out.

Is this true? Or is it just part of Ariel’s madness? There is only one way to find out: Ariel must go into that house.