Huesera (2022)
Genre: Drama / Horror
Duration: 93 minuten
Alternative title: Huesera: The Bone Woman
Country:
Peru / Mexico
Directed by: Michelle Garza Cervera
Stars: Natalia Solián, Alfonso Dosal and Mayra Batalla
IMDb score:
6,0 (7.513)
Releasedate: 10 February 2023
Huesera plot
Valeria and her husband Raúl are eagerly awaiting their first child. However, the pregnancy is difficult. Valeria is very insecure and lives in great fear. She witnesses visions and other supernatural phenomena, which appear to be the work of the entity 'La Huesera'. To face this threat, she reaps a taste of the carefree life she led, but gave up before Raúl. She reconnects with her first love Octavia.
Actors and actresses
Valeria
Raúl
Octavia
Isabel
Maricarmen
Ursula
Luis
Vecino (cameo)
Vero
Carolina
Reviews & comments
UmbraVitae
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- 4394 messages
- 4098 votes
Wow, this movie really got under my skin. The film mixes 1 of so many social taboos with local dark folklore and brings this whole to the viewer in such a sublime, extremely atmospheric way that you really stick to your screen, if not be sucked into it. Really big kudos and standing ovation to the Mexican director Michelle Garza Cervera, with what I think is her debut full-length film, because it's so messy, very impressive. I hesitate between a 9 and a 10, since 9.5 is not possible.
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Collins
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- 7361 messages
- 4357 votes
This poignant film debut by Michelle Garza Cerveras proves once again that plastic demons and monsters are not necessarily necessary for a film to be terrifying. Pregnancy, birth and crying babies are frightening enough and here are only the overture to even more terrifying misery that awaits the young protagonist Valeria.
Shattering bones, faceless ghosts and twisted bodies are metaphors for the devastating effects of heterosexual subjugation that Valeria suffers. Carefully and step by step, the film reveals not only the hypocrisy behind familial warmth, but also the misogyny that hides behind Christian imagery. Huesera the Bone Woman is a sharp outlet of feminism. An outlet cast in an oppressive folk tale.
The film intertwines psychological horror with body horror and uses elements of folklore to make a maverick point. I found the imagery to lose some of its power over time. Bit much of the same. However, the strong acting Natalia Solián as Valeria is always fascinating, who incidentally provides non-metaphorical horror by snapping her knuckles out of nervousness and maneuvering her shoulder blades in strange ways. That plastic thing ended up having more terrifying impact on me than the metaphorical input.
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remorz
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- 2498 messages
- 2754 votes
A pregnancy makes a woman extra vulnerable; in principle I find that a very intriguing starting point for a horror film. Also the mixing with (Mexican) folklore is something I can warm up to.
Ultimately, I found this somewhat lacking in coherence or motives or - I must admit I saw this a bit late at night - there's something going on that's missing for me. So the main character has left a (lesbian) love affair for a more socially accepted and mapped out life path? But why does Huesera complicate her life path, and does her finger cracking bear more than an aural resemblance to his characteristics or motives?
Although the ending with its metaphorical hellhole could have charmed me visually, the whole thing still feels a bit like loose sand to me. 2.5*
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