Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes.

Today’s theme: Mexico

Rivas (Fernando Fernández) is unhappy with his life and has been offered by death the chance to live less years but have the remaining ones be more successful. When the reaper comes for him as Tasia (Miroslava), she decides to stay a few days before ending his existence in the hopes that she can learn what it’s like to be human.

Obviously, this is a Mexican take on Death Takes a Holiday, as Tasia says in one scene, “And even if they say around there that Death takes holidays, it’s a lie. This is the first time. I’ve never worked in the movies!”

The best part is a scene where Tasia dances with skeletons to Camille Saint-Saens’ “Danse Macabre.” It’s both weird and gorgeous in equal measure.

Rivas has told his family that Tasia is a relative from far away and not the person about to end the life of their father. He’s wasted so much of his life and now that the days are growing shorter, he wonders how he can keep Death around, even if she must become part of the family.

Miroslava is a tragic figure and its ironic that she is Death in this movie. Even how she died was up for debate, as the accepted record is that she overdosed on sleeping pills, holding a portrait of her lost love bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. Others said that she had an image of Mexican comedian Cantinflas and an even wilder theory is that she died in a plane crash with a married businessman and her body was taken to her bed to look like a suicide.

You can watch this on YouTube.