Huesera: The Bone Woman
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Huesera: The Bone Woman is a 2022 supernatural body horror film[1] directed and co-written by Michelle Garza Cervera in her feature film directorial debut.[1][3] It stars Natalia Solián as Valeria, a pregnant woman who finds herself threatened by occult forces.[1][3][4] Alongside Solián, the film's cast includes Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Batalla, Mercedes Hernández,[1] Sonia Couoh and Aida López.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Huesera has an approval rating of 97% based on 37 reviews, with an average rating of 7.80/10. Its consensus reads, \"A bone-chilling body horror, Huesera offers genre fans a twisted take on What to Expect When You're Expecting.\"[10]
However, when they are informed they are expecting, Val is told the chemicals she uses daily will harm the baby. So she has to pack up her tools as well as all her punk rock posters from her younger days. To make matters worse, Raul stops wanting to have sex with her because he is worried about the baby. But, Val still sneaks cigarettes out her window and one night spots a woman in the building across the street staring at her. When she waves, the other woman starts twitching and throws herself out the window. Val watches in horror as the bloody heap of broken bones on the pavement lurches up and stares at her.
\"When you become a mother, you feel like you are split in two.\" XYZ Films has revealed the official trailer for the indie Mexican horror titled Huesera: The Bone Woman, opening in US theaters this February. It first premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival last year and has been earning rave reviews at other fests including Neuchâtel, Bucheon, Edinburgh, Bergen, Fantastic Fest, and Sitges. Huesera follows the story of Valeria, a young woman expecting her first child who becomes cursed by a sinister entity. Plunged into a terrifying and dangerous world, a group of witches emerge as her only hope for safety and salvation, but not without grave risk. Natalia Solián stars as Valeria, with a cast including Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Batalla, Mercedes Hernández, AÃda López, and Martha Claudia Moreno. This looks insanely scary once the trailer gets going, lots of freaky footage in that second half! That part of the crib breaking viscerally like a bone is just terrifying. Horror fans must watch out for this one! Arriving in select theaters and on VOD soon.
The supernatural Mexican horror feature is led by Natalia Solián in a star-turning performance as Valeria, a young woman expecting her first child who becomes cursed by a sinister entity. Plunged into a terrifying and dangerous world, a group of witches emerge as her only hope for safety and salvation, but not without grave risk. Huesera: The Bone Woman, also known as just Huesera, is directed by Mexican filmmaker Michelle Garza Cervera, now making her feature directorial debut after numerous short films previously, and work on the TV series \"Marea alta\". The screenplay is written by Michelle Garza Cervera and Abia Castillo. It's produced by Machete and Disruptiva in co-production with Señor Z, Maligno Gorehouse, IMCINE, Terminal, Simplemente, Estudios Churubusco. This initially premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival last year. XYZ Films will debut Huesera in select US theaters exclusive on February 10th, 2023, then on VOD starting February 16th, with a streaming release on Shudder later this year. Who's freaked
As such, Huesera functions as a body horror film and, like the best of them, one with deep political underpinnings. Here, the ways in which expectations around motherhood can push women to betray what they know deep down in their bones: who we are and how we can best contribute to a society that would prefer to conform to a single, self-sacrificing role.
\"Huesera: The Bone Woman\" is a horror movie that attacks all the senses. Loosely inspired by the folk tale La Huesera (translation: the bone woman), co-writer and director Michelle Garza Cervera places audiences in Valerai's (Natalia Solián) point of view as the protagonist fights to survive a supernatural curse in a society already damned by expectations. Every sight, sound, and fright is personal.
From the direction to the eerie cinematography, where light and shadow are in constant battle, to the very creepy sound design that features sounds of bone cracking, Huesera is bound to be a movie you both watch and feel. This is probably also why the movie won the Audience Award at Morelia International Film Festival in Mexico.
The movie stars Mexican actress Natalia Solián (Red Shoes) in a stellar performance as Valeria, a young woman expecting her first child who is cursed by a sinister entity. Plunged into a terrifying and dangerous world, a group of witches emerge as her only hope of safety and salvation, but not without grave risks.
The feature directorial debut of Michelle Garza Cervera (who wrote the screenplay with Abia Castillo), Huesera: The Bone Woman received a lot of praise from critics and racked up awards while making the festival rounds. The film stars Natalia Solián (Zapatos Rojos) as Valeria, a young woman expecting her first child who becomes cursed by a sinister entity. Plunged into a terrifying and dangerous world, a group of witches emerge as her only hope for safety and salvation, but not without grave risk.
\"We built a character that has everything apparently perfect to build a great domestic life,\" director Michelle Garza Cervera said. \"And that was constructed deliberately. We wanted the problem and the entity and the horror to be born out of her internal emotional conflict. And that means we also didn't want it to be focused on the process of what happens to a female body literally, throughout pregnancy. We've seen that a lot. It was more about the symbolic thing of something that is breaking you down, and it's literally making you feel like your bones are fracturing. We really wanted it to be about portraying what feels inside, to go through a sacrifice process that can be domesticity or building a family.\"
As a young Mexican woman in a society deeply influenced by the Catholic church, Valeria has convinced herself that happiness lies in what society has defined as a traditional, heteronormative relationship with a husband and baby. But this dream life turns into a nightmare as Valeria feels her identity splitting. That feeling is reflected in the imagery of the film as well, with Valeria reflected and fragmented in mirrors, windows and water.
That legend also provides motivation for the creepy imagery and sounds that drive the film. Valeria imagines and feels her bones cracking and breaking, and she is haunted by images of broken bodies. All this gives the film a unique and effectively disturbing style that is asking us to look at how society can try to force people into confining roles.
there's a lot to say here that I'm unable to articulate, mostly due to being numb from the cacophony of joints cracking and bones breaking; a great entry in maternal body horror and should, at the very least, make Natalia Solián a star
Pre-natal anxieties and an entity from Mexican mythology are deftly and devastatingly woven together in Huesera: The Bone Woman, the feature debut from director Michelle Garza Cervera. Co-written by Garza Cervera and regular collaborator Abia Castillo, the film centers on Valeria (Natalia Solián), a young woman in Mexico City delighted to learn that she and her husband Raúl (Alfonso Dosal) are expecting their first child. This giddy sentiment is eclipsed by nerve-shredding terror when Valeria witnesses a neighbor commit suicide from her bedroom window. From that point on, she becomes the target of a strange entity with broken bones and limp appendages, dragging itself around her apartment and the entire city hoping to eventually catch Valeria in its clutches.
Making the threatened protagonist in a horror film a pregnant woman is a surefire way to double the anxiety and fear a spectator experiences. Add to that the extreme emotions and fragility a mother might experience and her possible susceptibility to imagining scary things, having feverish visions and nightmares and it is easy to see why maternity is a potent element to add to the plot of a horror feature.
Through the figure of the bone woman, the film feels like it has a very deep folkloric core. How do you best describe this to people outside of the culture who may not be familiar with the specifics you are engaging with
A woman becomes increasingly afraid of her own pregnancy in this intriguing blend of folk horror and body horror. Gripping, chilling and deeply unsettling, it marks a striking horror debut for Mexican co-writer-director Michelle Garza Cervera.
Back home, Valeria looks out the window to see a woman in the building across the way jump to the courtyard below, smashing her legs so that the broken bones stick at unnatural angles out of the skin. But when Valeria tries to show Raúl, the woman is no longer there. 59ce067264