There is not a great Spanish tradition of ghost stories. But in the period of Franco, you'd find these ghost stories: sort of hidden political movies that were supposed to be about ghosts but were about something else.
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Movies by Carlos Saura and others had ghosts, memories from the past, that they used to make a political point. Things you couldn't talk about openly, you could speak of through ghosts.
I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.
Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever.
I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.
Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.
I've always been into the horror genre, so I've seen a lot of movies with ghosts and supernatural stuff.
I've wanted to write a ghost story for years, and my main aim was to write the most frightening ghost story that I could think of.
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
Everyone has a ghost story, or at least that's how it has always seemed to me.