![]() The role of brujeria and belief in the supernatural in Latino culture. The issue of pesticides and their effects on pregnant women in the Central Valley and, by extension, all agricultural workers who are largely Latinos. How Latino culture treats women, especially women who don’t adhere to the culture’s standards that are quite judgmental. But even the red herrings and the number of different themes are relevant to its ultimate reveal. The film rather slowly dances around the real horror and you do have to stick with it past a number of red herrings. The house is a fixer-upper, but both Diana and Beto are happy to have this seemingly good opportunity to get a fresh start. They have relocated to California’s Central Valley, an agricultural hub, where they can have a house of their own to raise their child, and Beto can work as a supervisor and advance his career. She has a husband Beto, who is bilingual and has an accent, played by MVP Tenoch Huerta, in an excellent casting choice. You can’t understand people who only speak Spanish, people who are bilingual don’t like you, and you are sometimes mocked for the choices made by your family to not teach you Spanish as a child.ĭiana is pregnant and exists in this grey area for Latina women. You exist in a weird place within the culture of Chicanos and Mexicanos in the state. There is a strange quandary that exists for pochos because they don’t speak Spanish and if they have light skin they are frequently mistaken for or accused of being White. A pocho or a pocha is a person of Mexican descent who is considered not Mexican enough. It addresses many issues that confront a certain type of Latina woman, known as “pochas,” in the state of California. The film is set in the 1970s and really plays the shell game for a while with its intentions and the source of the horror. It is written by Marcella Ochoa ( Discarnate) and Mario Miscione ( Discarnate) and it is being released as part of the Welcome To The Blumhouse series of horror films produced by Blumhouse and released as streaming titles on Amazon as Amazon Originals. Courtesy Amazon Prime Video MADRES is a horror film directed by Ryan Zaragoza, starring Ariana Guerra (Diana), Tenoch Huerta (Beto), Elpidia Carillo (Anita), Evelyn Gonzalez (Marisol), Joseph Garcia (Tomas), Robert Larriviere (Dr. ![]()
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