Tag: South America

Shadow and Act: Trailer for ‘Tomb’ Sci-Fi Thriller From Trinidad & Tobago

LINK: Nicholas Attin’s Futurism Relies on Storytelling and Character Rather Than Visual Gimmicks

Fangoria Reviews Erotic Horror Comic ‘The Discipline’

Read at Fangoria.com.

Story by Peter Milligan and art by Argentine artist Leandro Fernandez. (Can’t wait. This needs to come out NOW.)

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February Latin America Tech News Round-Up

LINK: Mexico’s first Apple store, Yahoo shuts down its Buenos Aires office and more

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‘Our Life is Not a Game,’ Say World Indigenous Games Protesters

Click here to read at the Christian Science Monitor.

BrazilarcherA Rikbaktsa archer competes at Brazil’s Indigenous Games

Amazon Tribes Want to Remain Isolated–So They’re Getting the Internet

LINK: For the Waura, getting internet has been a years-long process

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#POCtober: Vampires Beyond the Mythology of Europe

Thanks to Bram Stoker’s Dracula and all the eventual Hollywood adaptations of that prim, Victorian body horror, much of the west sees vampires from a very narrowly European perspective. But the living dead and tales of feinds lapping up the blood of mere mortals are recurring fixtures through out the world’s folklore and popular cultures. Below are listed but a few of the world’s many and varied takes on these creatures and the lore that makes them a global trope in supernatural story telling.

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• Vampires Throughout Asia

• Native American Vampires of Myth and Legend

• African Vampire Mythology

• Bloodthirsty Vampires Of India

• Bats in South American Folklore and Ancient Art

• Enchanted Doorway: Vampires in Japanese Myth

• Algul: The Arabic Vampire

• The Camazotz of Mayan Legend

• True Vampires of the Philippines and Malaysia

• Beyond Twilight: 9 Lesser-Known Vampires

• Vampire Legends from around the World: Australia & Asia

Latino Review On The Eli Roth Cannibal Flick ‘The Green Inferno’

<a href="http://www.latino-review.com/news/film-review-the-green-inferno"Check it out at latino-review.com.

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KFC Apologizes For ‘Racist’ Facebook Image

Check it out at The Huffington Post – Latino Voices.

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