Michelle Garza Cervera crafts a thoughtful, entrancing body horror debut with Huesera. kevinfoxjr's PFF31 review:
is a body horror film about pregnancy and motherhood, but not in the ways that might immediately come to mind when tying that subgenre with those themes. It’s not particularly interested in distended stomachs or bleeding tubes; “huesera” is Spanish for “bonesetter,” and one of its marketing photos indicates what’s going to happen. The movie is all about nerves, discomfort and contortion—the pain of forcing yourself to try to be and want things you’d rather not be or do.
After unwittingly attracting an evil that looks like a faceless person, she relies on her closest family relative, a “spinster” aunt who brings her to a curandera for help that doesn’t quite last. In the meantime, the mental strain put upon Val by the apparent haunting begins to drive a wedge into her relationship, pushing her into thinking about the paths less traveled.
The story of tension between Valeria and her family is more completely about the stress of expectations—the feeling of being a disappointment for not wanting the right things, and for being punished for the change when you attempt to pursue them. It’s about trying to maintain and build bonds over strain, and of grudges and long-remembered woes.
The romance between Valeria and Octavia is an emotional core of the movie, and the flashbacks connecting it with the main action inform the character arcs without redundancy. The audience learns that Valeria’s path away from Octavia and toward Raúl came from the off-screen tragedy of her brother’s death—she felt a need to step up, to fulfill his lifestyle and financial goals by attending university.
The calm satisfaction of the conclusion is what felt least like a conventional horror to me—one of the least catastrophic endings of a non-action horror I’ve seen within the context of the genre’s trappings. Yetleaves us with much to consider, and ties believable real-life costs that may sting worse because of their feasibility.is very well-paced, and it feels like a lot happens without any cramming, alternating moments of slow buildup and scene-setting with sharp moments of tension.
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