The 2015 James Bond film that opens with a Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City is *Spectre*.
The opening follows James Bond through a crowded fictional festival filled with skeleton costumes, elaborate makeup and giant puppets before a dramatic helicopter sequence. The parade was created for the film rather than filmed as a long-established Mexico City event. Its striking imagery helped introduce the celebration to many international moviegoers.
A common mix-up is assuming the sequence depicts a regular parade that already existed in Mexico City. In fact, the film’s imagined spectacle helped inspire the city’s first official Day of the Dead parade in 2016. *Spectre* is also distinct from *Coco*, the later Disney-Pixar film that centers its story on the holiday and its family traditions.