Humor, horror, family
Filmmaker Israel Luna Israel Luna’s newest movie, drawing from his Latino culture and his small-town childhood, is his most personal yet TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editor nash@dallasvoice.com North Texas filmmaker Israel Luna is certainly no stranger to horror films; he has several to his credit, including the four-movie Ouija series (The Ouija Experiment, The Ouija Experiment 2: Theatre of Death, Ouija 3: The Charlie Charlie Challenge and Ouija: Deadly Reunion).
All of his horror movies contain at least some small sliver of Luna’s own offbeat sense of humor. And his most well-known films — 2010’s highly-controversial Ticked-Off Tr*****s With Knives and 2019’s zombie romp Dead Don’t Die in Dallas (originally Kicking Zombie Ass for Jesus) — mix that humor with a huge helping of LGBTQ culture.
But this month Luna premieres his first movie mixing horror and his signature dark humor with his own culture as a Latino who grew up in a small town in the Texas Panhandle. ……………………… ‘La Chancla De Diablo’ premiers Filmmaker Israel Luna holds the world premier of his newest film, La Chancla Del Diablo, Friday, Jan.
19, at 9 p.m. at the Wellington Ritz Theatre, in Wellington, Texas, Luna’s hometown and the place where the movie was filmed.
