Huesera: The Bone Woman
XYZ Films | Release Date: February 10, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanFeb 9, 2023
"Huesera" is the type of staggering supernatural nightmare that is as transfixing as it is terrifying. Read full review
91
ColliderMarco Vito OddoFeb 9, 2023
The way Huesera favors metaphor above clarity will undoubtedly push some viewers away. Still, horror fans willing to approach Huesera with open hearts will be gifted a unique experience that exposes the violence of reducing women to their role as mothers. Read full review
90
Film ThreatMichael Talbot-HaynesFeb 16, 2023
Huesera: The Bone Woman will take your conception of the limits of the horror genre and break every bone in its body. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarFeb 9, 2023
The remarkable debut from writer-director Michelle Garza Cervera is as effectively blood-curdling as it is intellectually incisive. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeNov 7, 2022
Dig deeper and Huesera reveals itself to be a wilier film — an astute study of desire and self-deception. Read full review
90
We Got This CoveredAlejandra Martinez Nov 7, 2022
Huesera is a sermon, a spell, a treatise on how destructive societal expectations and motherhood in general can be to someone’s identity. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comKatie RifeFeb 10, 2023
Huesera doesn’t necessarily re-invent either of those subgenres. But it does present them in a vessel that’s so artfully crafted, and filled with details that bring the characters and their relationships to such vivid life, that it accomplishes a lofty goal for genre cinema: Taking a familiar formula and turning it into a personal statement. Read full review
83
The Film StageJared MobarakNov 7, 2022
Cervera’s feature debut is an accordingly powerful depiction of motherhood’s oft-overlooked cost. Read full review
80
Screen DailyJonathan HollandNov 7, 2022
Propelled by a superb central performance by Natalia Solian, the film’s potential excesses are held under tight control as it takes us, like a Mexican riff on Rosemary’s Baby, on a nightmare journey through the dark side of motherhood involving gaslighting, body horror, and the occult. Read full review
80
VarietyManuel BetancourtNov 7, 2022
Examining the bone-breaking work that being a mother can be, Garza Cervera’s tale is most thrilling for the ways it refuses any tidy answers about a woman’s place and wallows (and finds plenty of terror) in the ambiguities therein. Read full review
77
Paste MagazineKevin Fox, Jr.Nov 2, 2022
Huesera may have needed more scares or a darker ending to push it over the top, but as is, it’s a thoughtful meditation on choice, love and the anguish of expectation, dressed in the clothing of a clear-eyed, anxious body horror. Read full review
75
PolygonJoshua RiveraFeb 16, 2023
There’s a focus on ritual in Huesera that builds both its horror and its character study in compelling ways. Read full review
75
IndieWireChristian ZilkoFeb 10, 2023
Huesera: The Bone Woman remains a highly competent debut feature. It’s a chilling reminder that when something feels off, you should listen to your gut. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineWes GreeneFeb 6, 2023
The film is a sensitive character study disguised as an unnerving exercise in body horror. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 10, 2023
Perhaps this movie is a little anticlimactic, but there is often an atmosphere of real fear, especially when Natalia is driven to the edge by her newborn’s incessant crying: a horrible moment which is not supernatural in the slightest. Read full review
60
IGNMatt DonatoNov 7, 2022
The horrors of childbirth become entangled in a demonic subplot as Huesera fits neatly into the list of chilling pregnancy horror tales, but doesn’t add much new to it. Read full review
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