Watched all five episodes of the USA's reality TV show Haunted: Latin America (2021). Each episode is narrated by a protagonist surrounded by relatives and friends in a living room. The stories are set mostly in Mexico and in Colombia, and occur between 2004 and 2018.
In the first episode ("The House of the Damned"), housewife Brisa Ramirez fights to own a house after her divorce, only to find out that it is haunted by the ghosts of two abusive men and an abused child. In the second episode ("The Cursed Doll"), single mother Zully Daza is obsessed with a ballerina doll that is possessed by a male spirit that is in love with her and is out to kill her. Episode 3, titled "The Woman from El Molino," recounts the experiences of police NCO and criminology student Rodrigo Casas, who is rescued more than once by a female spirit that he recognizes from a legendary story. Episode 4, titled "Something Knocking at the Door," is about student Diego Ruiz, who is followed by rapping sounds wherever he goes--and who always has a neighbor who dies. In the final episode ("The Devil Dances Before Easter"), young Emmanuel Cifuentes is sent to live with his grandmother, a gypsy, after his parents are divorced. Despite being warned by his grandmother not to leave the house on Good Friday, he does so, and is subsequently hounded by a big, black dog and a devil. He grows up and asks his grandmother to train him as a spiritualist.
The settings and situations will remind viewers of those in the Philippines. A variety of experts are consulted by the narrators: researchers, a parapsychologist, native healers, a priest, and a pastor. Each episode is open-ended, which could be disturbing to audiences accustomed to closure.
All episodes are well-performed, but there are too many lit candles in the narration sequences, and almost all of the scenes are under-lighted.
There is some semi-nudity.
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