Huesera raises the fear of motherhood from a suffocating, anxious, not at all tender feminine vision, desacralizing said stage and terrifying quite a few women. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 27, 2024

Huesera contains some truly frightening moments of dread and terror, and not just in its traditional scenes of psychological horror, but also manages to tap into the basic gut wrenching fears of any new parents.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

Huesera' is a brave film, with an inescapable queer background, that does not shy away from the allegories that usually create division among fans of the genre and that frames its horror within the character's anxieties... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2024

Michelle Garza Cervera’s horror film has a subversive, uncomfortable view of motherhood and sexuality. And like the best horror films, it uses terror and exaggeration to make us sympathize with a situation that might normally make us recoil in disgust.

| Dec 22, 2023

It all adds up to a deeply disquieting, and personal, experience that comes from a real place. And you will never forget those icky snapping sounds.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 14, 2023

An intense and necessary entry into the canon of pregnancy horror, and one that acknowledges that rewilding is something some women require to fully embrace themselves.

| Original Score: A | Sep 24, 2023

Mysterious and electrifying, Huesera: The Bone Woman is one of this year’s most challenging and best films.

| Sep 23, 2023

Huesera: The Bone Woman is a refreshing look at motherhood and losing the sense of self. Cervera doesn’t rely heavily on jumpscares to elevate the horror elements.

| Sep 8, 2023

Huesera, a downright effort composed with trenchant expressions and a spellbinding atmosphere, prefers subtle suggestions to overt statements.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 6, 2023

This is stunning, crawling body horror that understands that physical contortions and breaks in bones and faceless doubles in swift pursuit carry the meaningful, not to mention foreboding as a toothache, heft no belaboring dialogue can.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 9, 2023

Huesera is The Lost Daughter’s spooky sister and Rosemary’s Baby’s modern daughter. Huesera is stifling, angry, and a plea for change on a large scale.

| Jul 24, 2023

What could be a compelling story of motherhood, different life paths, sexuality, and postpartum depression ends up going nowhere. It doesn’t live up to it’s potential.

| Jul 1, 2023

Garza's film is genuinely terrifying because it depicts violence in a natural way, an outward crudeness that, far from conditioning us to expect something terrible, drops onto the screen without warning, intensifying its impact. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 26, 2023

This body horror film is teeming with complex ideas about religion, motherhood, and autonomy, but there’s just not enough to carry it across the finish line.

| Jun 20, 2023

An exciting feature debut by Michelle Garza... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2023

While Huesera: The Bone Woman is absolutely a horror movie—the soundtrack and cinematography are dark and eerie as hell—it draws most poignantly on Valeria’s emotional fragmentation.

| Jun 3, 2023

Cervera uses the entire frame to box Valeria into her new life. Shots are held just long enough for dreadful anticipation to bloom and creep along the very edges of vision. I may not have known what was going on but I was emotionally invested in the ride.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2023

...you’ll often not be sure whether something you see on screen is actually happening in the world of the characters, whether it’s a product of Valeria’s mind, or whether it’s a cinematic metaphor for what she’s feeling and experiencing.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 19, 2023

Though murky and ambiguous, Cervera’s film affirms a woman’s right to choose.

| May 18, 2023

A horror film that doubles as a parable of post-partum depression, something with the creeping anxiety of Polanski’s Repulsion or Rosemary’s Baby.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2023