Huesera: The Bone Woman
Directed by Michelle Garza Cerveza
Cursed by an evil spirit and expecting her first child, Valeria's plunged into a terrifying world where a group of witches are her only hope.
A group of witches are a pregnant woman's only hope.
Cast: Natalia Solián, Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Batalla, Mercedes Hernández, Aída López, Martha Claudia Moreno
Member Reviews
Rad movie! Women making excellent movies about their lived experiences with fierceness and truth. It's definitely one of my favourite things about horror as a genre, exploring real life anxieties and horrors (can you f-ing believe carrying a life inside you that grows and breaks out and has an umbilical cord to cut, amniotic fluid, and merconium, and once upon a time it was mega risky and a life or death affair!? It blows my mind every time I think on it). The practical effects of the writhing broken bodies monster was dance, lovely stuff! Plenty of metaphor to keep you busy, but well embedded in the story, and man-o-man there's plenty of beauty to go around in this lovely film with sweet eroticism to boot. Nice!
I have no idea what that was all about but I held my interest long enough to see it to the end
2½💀 This is more of a thriller with supernatural elements than it is a horror film. Though I watched to the end, it was mostly in hopes that it would get darker, or more would happen - I was left disappointed. For the most part, "Huesera" is dull.
More drama than horror, with some bad pacing. Not much happens and when something does happen it's few and far between. Wanted to like it, but it was simply too slow for me.
Intense and terrifying with the pressures of womanhood.