Chicas Cucuy

Horror movie reviews and true scary stories!

Join hosts Esme and Laura as they dive into lighthearted reviews and commentary on the latest horror movies and shows with some personality. Both are life long horror fans based out of Los Angeles, California. Movie details and outcomes are definitely mentioned so **SPOILER ALERT!!!** for basically this whole podcast! They also share REAL-LIFE ghost stories and eerie encounters, whether from first or second hand telling from guests, their own, or listener experiences too.
Join us if you like horror, scary , spooky, or gory movies and film (sometimes shows) and listen to reviews, opinions and recommendations for them, also if you like real true scary stories and supernatural sightings or eerie haunting experiences. Thanks for listening... tune in if you dare!

Contributors

Host

Esmeralda Villarreal

South bay based creative from Los Angeles County area in California, Esmeralda is and has been a horror fan for most of her life. Her main creativity outlet is being a fine art painter among other arts and crafts but her very present interest is watching horror films and TV series and true horror dramatizations, or books as well as listening to people's scary stories! As a child she would be the re-teller of said scary stories scaring her friends and cousins and getting in trouble for it when they got scared and couldn't sleep!

Host

Laura Medrano

South bay based creative from Los Angeles County area in California, Laura was born and raised loving horror. She is a fine arts painter and muralist, and loves watching horror and thriller movies, and listening and telling people scary stories!

Guests

Guest

Claudia Medrano

Claudia is a LA native, that tells us her sleep paralysis experience in her K Town/Wilshire district home apartment!

Guest

Fernando Valdez

Fernie is a treasure trove of haunting experiences. He is the star of episode 6 where he shares the root of most of the experiences that followed him throughout different stages of his life. He has lots of scary stories and we will definitely have him as a return guest!

Guest appearance on:

Nosferatu 2024 Review (and Dracula, and Shadow of the Vampire 🤪) / Fernie's Haunting Childhood Mirror Reflection

Guest

Gus M

Gus grew up in San Fernando Valley in southern California. He tells us a story of when his family seemingly got an unexpected visit from an uncle who had passed marking his birthday and playing his favorite song on an old radio that hadn't worked in years!

Guest

Jessica D

Jessica is one of Esme's bffs! She is from Redondo Beach, California. She loves the LA Dodgers, definitely one of their top fans 💯, her favorite band is Pink Floyd, she's one of the best pre-school teachers there is, and we just love her! Co-host filling in for Laura and guest scary story teller!

Guest appearance on:

Run Rabbit Run review/ Jessica's chilling sleep paralysis encounter

Guest

Jorge Medrano

Jorge is a native of Los Angeles, CA. He brings us a story of when he was a teen in the late 90s when he unexpectedly found himself followed/stalked by a 'man' with a black hat that ended up being an entity that appeared at almost every corner as he walked home in the wee hours of the night. Jorge has had many various scary experiences and we may be hearing several spooky anecdotes from him again!