Director Issa López’s Horror Debut: Tigers Are Not Afraid

Dani Bethea
10 min readFeb 2, 2020

Exploring magic as survival.

Writer/Director: Issa López

CW/TW: Homicide, Violence Against Children

This editorial contains spoilers.

The film Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017) is a story about a childhood undercut by violence and the ghosts that remain to haunt the living. The alternate title of this film is Vuelven meaning They Come Back or…

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Dani Bethea

Horror Sommelier & Pop Culture Pontificator. Prev EIC: We Are Horror. Published: Studies In the Fantastic + Women of Jenji Kohan + Montréal Monstrum Society .