HUESERA: THE BONE WOMAN, Michelle Garza Cervera’s Two-Time Tribeca Award-Winning Breakout Feature Debut, Drops Teaser Poster And Sets Early 2023 Release Date From XYZ Films
Garza Cervera’s extensively praised Mexican supernatural horror movie to open solely in theaters February 10 and arrive on VOD February 16, 2023
WINNER OF THE 2022 TRIBECA BEST NEW NARRATIVE DIRECTOR & NORA EPHRON AWARDS
XYZ Films introduced right now the discharge date for HUESERA: THE BONE WOMAN, the critically acclaimed breakout function directorial debut from Mexican filmmaker Michelle Garza Cervera, and drops the primary teaser poster for movie. HUESERA will probably be launched solely in theaters on February 10 in main markets nationwide throughout the U.S. and land on VOD on February 16 from XYZ Films.
HUESERA: THE BONE WOMAN (previously Huesera) premiered on the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival in New York within the competition’s genre-driven Midnight part and would go on to win each the Best New Narrative Director and Nora Ephron awards, an unprecedented feat for a Midnight choice. Following the world premiere, HUESERA: THE BONE WOMAN received each the Blood Window Award for Best Feature Film and the Citizen Kane Award for Best Directorial Revelation on the internationally acknowledged Sitges Film Festival in Spain and the Feature Film Audience Award on the Morelia International Film Festival, Mexico’s premier movie competition and one of the essential movie occasions of the Latin-American subcontinent.
The supernatural Mexican horror function is led by Natalia Solián (Carlos Eichelmann Kaiser’s Venice choice ZAPATOS ROJOS) in a star-turning efficiency as Valeria, a younger lady anticipating her first baby who turns into cursed by a sinister entity. Plunged right into a terrifying and harmful world, a gaggle of witches emerge as her solely hope for security and salvation, however not with out grave danger. The movie additionally stars Alfonso Dosal (Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico), Mayra Batalla (PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN), Mercedes Hernández (IDENTIFYING FEATURES), Aída López (Capadocia), and Martha Claudia Moreno.
Widely lauded by critics, who’ve praised HUESERA: THE BONE WOMAN for its mesmerizing lead, lovely cinematography, chilling sound design, and, above all else, its evocative method to themes of motherhood, the function of ladies in fashionable society, queer identification, and physique autonomy — all extremely well timed and related right now greater than ever. The movie has shortly been revered as an completed, Mexican folk-inspired spin on essential maternal horrors equivalent to The Babadook, Hereditary, and Rosemary’s Baby, with Forbes hailing the function as “a stunningly portrayed cinematic outing,” Variety calling it “spine-chillingly terrifying,” and The Hollywood Reporter lauding it as “an astute study of desire and self-deception” of their rave opinions.
With her function debut, the Mexico City-based Garza Cervera — a rising younger expertise within the Latin-American style scene already celebrated for her earlier brief movies that performed festivals all over the world — pronounces herself as a daring, visionary new voice in genre-challenging, impartial movie to not be ignored.
The Mexico-Peru co-prod is produced by Machete and Disruptiva in co-production with Señor Z, Maligno Gorehouse, IMCINE, Terminal, Simplemente, and Estudios Churubusco, and is co-written by Garza Cervera and Abia Castillo.
Following the movie’s theatrical and digital launch from XYZ Films in February, Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, will launch the movie on their platform in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
Theatrical trailer, poster, and particulars on screening engagements for HUESERA: THE BONE WOMAN will probably be introduced early subsequent yr.
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