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Jul 3rd, 2025 @ 7:00 PM MDTStarts
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Jul 10th, 2025 @ 7:05 PM MDTEnds
Thursday Jul 10th, 2025 @ 7:05 PM MDTGlobe Cinema
617 8 Ave SW, Calgary
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About the series:
MEXSORCISMO: Death, Blood, and Identity
When we think of Mexican culture, it’s often filtered through clichés—Day of the Dead, mariachis, tequila, and tacos. But beyond the familiar lies a much deeper landscape: one shaped by colonial legacy, religious fervor, social inequality, magical thinking, and the shadow of everyday violence.
Mexsorcismo is a cinematic ritual—an exorcism of stereotypes. Through five provocative films, this series unearths the demons that haunt Mexican identity. Horror becomes the perfect vessel to explore cultural trauma, faith, folklore, family, and the dark corners of modern life in Mexico. From vampiric devices and unholy nuns to spectral motherhood and journalistic nightmares, these films present a Mexico both real and imagined—where horror is not just entertainment, but truth made myth.
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MEXSORCISMO: Muerte, Sangre, e Identidad.
Cuando la gente piensa en cultura Mexicana fuera de México, siempre van a estar presentes los típicos clichés—Día de los muertos, mariachis, tequila y tacos. Pero más allá de esto existe un panorama más profundo: Uno creado por la influencia colonial, pasión religiosa, disparidad social, realismo mágico y la sombra de la violencia cotidiana.
Mexsorcismo es un ritual cinemático—una purga de estereotipos. Esta serie exhuma los demonios que atormentan a la identidad Mexicana a través de cinco películas icónicas. El terror se convierte en el vehículo perfecto para explorar el trauma cultural, fé, folclor, familia y los rincones obscuros de la vida moderna en México. Desde dispositivos vampíricos y monjas profanas hasta maternidad atormentada y pesasdillas de nota roja, estas películas exhiben a un México real e imaginario, donte el terror no sólamente es entretenimiento pero también la realidad convertida en mito.
Community Partner: Casa Mexico Foundation
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In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge that this screening takes place on Moh’kinsstis and the traditional Treaty 7 territory, as well as the oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Otipemisiwak Métis Government of the Métis Nation within Alberta District 6. Finally, we acknowledge all Nations, Indigenous and non, who live, work and play, as well as help steward this land, honour and celebrate this territory.
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