Movies like La Leyenda de los Chaneques

“La Leyenda de los Chaneques (2023) is a Mexican 2020s family-horror animation that pivots its protagonist from domestic withdrawal to confronting an ancestral curse. It stages that conflict through chiaroscuro lighting and hand-drawn texture, using compact narrative-tropes and folkloric creature design to keep myth tactile and family-safe. The film reframes Latin American folkloric uncanny as a mediation on family responsibility and cultural inheritance.”