Madres

Name: Madres
Genre: Horror
Released: October 8, 2021
Rating: 43
Cast: Ariana Guerra, Ashleigh Lewis, Britton Webb, Elpidia Carrillo, Evelyn Gonzalez

2021

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Amazon Prime Video | Release Date (Streaming): October 8, 2021

Starring: Ariana Guerra, Ashleigh Lewis, Britton Webb, Elpidia Carrillo, Evelyn Gonzalez, Jennifer Patino, Kerry Cahill, René Mena, Robert Larriviere, Tenoch Huerta

Summary: A Mexican-American couple expecting their first child relocate to a migrant farming community in 1970's California. When the wife begins to experience strange symptoms and terrifying visions, she tries to determine if it's related to a legendary curse or something more nefarious. [Part of Amazon's Welcome to the Blumhouse series]

Director: Ryan Zaragoza

Genre(s): Horror

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The Guardian Phil Hoad

Oct 7, 2021

Madres never loses a strong underpinning of social conscience that seeps into director Ryan Zaragoza’s considered shots. Read full review

Lena Wilson

Oct 7, 2021

A subdued score and some by-the-book camerawork can make this urgent story drag, but what it lacks in sting it makes up for with an original script (by Marcella Ochoa and Mario Miscione) and a ferociously pregnant protagonist who would make the “Fargo” character Marge Gunderson proud. Read full review

Katie Rife

Oct 12, 2021

Didactic in its approach to the material—which, to be clear, is absolutely horrifying and very real—Madres has some good ideas, but it fails to see the structural forest for the sumptuously photographed trees. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Oct 8, 2021

Calling a movie like Madres by-the-numbers would be a compliment, and an overstatement, because that would indicate that the makers were even mildly successful. Read full review

Screen Rant Mae Abdulbaki

Oct 15, 2021

Madres is extremely fragmented and painfully subpar, wasting a chance to tell an intriguing, nuanced story that is still an issue in the present. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Oct 18, 2021

I found it more competent than I initially expected because it manages to invoke a good atmosphere of suspense and an engaging mystery.

However, as this mystery begins to unfold, the story also starts to lose pace and impact, and its final act responds more to a portion of anguish ratherI found it more competent than I initially expected because it manages to invoke a good atmosphere of suspense and an engaging mystery.

However, as this mystery begins to unfold, the story also starts to lose pace and impact, and its final act responds more to a portion of anguish rather than horror.

The closing with the mention of eugenics applied to immigrants feels gratuitous and insubstantial because it seems like a device that tries to justify this story in general, but fails in a resounding way to give a real voice to that issue.… Expand

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JLau

Nov 1, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pregnant couple move for farming work opportunities but start experiencing visions and noticing that there are no Hispanic children being born in the community so after initially suspecting the farm fertilisers to be causing pregnancy problems, they realise the local doctor is a racist who's performing unwanted abortions.… Expand

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