Rosario

For audiences looking for a fresh take on the possession subgenre, Felipe Vargas's "Rosario" might not fully deliver. The film, starring Emeraude Toubia as the titular Wall Street stockbroker, delves into a culturally rich backdrop as Rosario uncovers her family's dark secrets after her grandmother's death. While the premise offers intriguing possibilities with its focus on generational rituals and occult artifacts, the execution often leaves something to be desired.

Much of the film's horror relies on scenes shrouded in darkness, which, while sometimes effective in creating atmosphere, can also obscure details and limit the visual impact of its supernatural occurrences. "Rosario" treads familiar ground within the possession narrative, and while it doesn't necessarily detract from the story, it also doesn't introduce much that feels new or groundbreaking.

Ultimately, "Rosario" is a watchable film, but it's unlikely to leave a lasting impression. It's the kind of movie you might enjoy once, but it's quickly forgotten amidst the vast landscape of horror offerings.

Honestly wish I had something better to say about this film but I thought this movie was very ridiculous and not well made in any way. The pacing of this film is all over the place, it doesn't have an understanding of where it is trying to go and there is no real story to this film. This movie just jumps to each scene with a single actress who talks to her self and tries to solve a mystery alone. The only thing this film has to stand on is how ridiculous of a film it is that you could just sit there and laugh at how ridiculous some of these scenes are. This film really tried to be a cultural piece but couldn't have done a worse job with the execution.

Rosario is a frustratingly good movie. I say that because, on almost every technical level, it's solid. The production value is high. The cinematography is stylish and moody, perfectly complementing the eerie tone the director clearly worked hard to build. The acting? Strong across the board. The atmosphere? Genuinely creepy at times-unsettling in the best way. I want to like this movie more than I do. I should like it more than I do.

But I can't. Because of Rosario herself.

The main character, Rosario, is-put bluntly-an idiot. And I don't mean the typical horror movie brand of "bad decision-making" we've come to expect from side characters. I mean she's the lead, and her defining trait seems to be astonishing stupidity. We're told she's a savvy Wall Street investor, but nothing she says or does reflects that. In fact, almost every awful thing that happens to her throughout the movie is a direct result of her own thoughtless, reckless, or laughably naïve decisions.

At first, I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt. Maybe she was in over her head. Maybe her arrogance would be part of a character arc. But no-she just keeps making choices so bafflingly dumb that I stopped rooting for her entirely. And once you lose investment in your protagonist, the whole movie starts to lose its grip.

It's a shame, because there's real talent behind the camera. The filmmakers clearly know how to craft tension, build mood, and shoot a good-looking film. The script, unfortunately, doesn't give the lead much intelligence or agency-and watching her stumble from one boneheaded decision to the next becomes less suspenseful and more comical as things go on.

Rosario is a well-directed, well-acted horror film that's undone by a main character so devoid of basic intelligence or self-preservation instincts that it breaks the immersion. If you're okay watching a beautiful, creepy movie with a protagonist who constantly deserves what's coming to her, you might enjoy it more than I did.

The writing was pretty bad. My favorite part was when she had to look up the religion and she said" cauldron, sticks, skulls" into Google( after searching witches, and the occult or some crap) and the first thing she tapped on was this one religion. It was just all around super corny. And not like good Evil Dead Corny, like not well made corny. . The premise was pretty cool and would have been rad if it had a different set of writers, and maybe a different director. And also different actress. I got total Jennifer Lopez vibes with the acting. Which as we all know, she's a horrible actress. I can say it was fun making fun of it with my husband so we didn't leave halfway through although we thought about it.

The premise of this could have turned into something really cool and mildly terrifying if they had done it properly. But they did not. I wish that I had not chosen to forgo a couple hours of reading a really good book that I'm in to go watch this because it was a waste of time. The character was not appropriately scared for anything that was going on in this movie. She didn't even scream when gross rotting demons were in her face. She kept touching a dead body and desecrating a corpse. Like.. it was just bad. There could have been so much potential for some good jumpscares, for some really intense scenes with these rotting corpse demon things. There was no intensity in the music, there was no intensity in the acting, and the storyline just didn't make sense most of the time. She finds this back room where her grandmother is practicing some voodoo witchcraft stuff and she has no idea what's going on. She googles it and suddenly she knows how to break whatever curse she thinks she has and she's upstairs doing these incantations and voodoo stuff and reading out of a book that's in Spanish when she doesn't even know spanish. It was just a hot mess from start to finish. She keeps talking to her grandmother's corpse like her grandmother is alive and they're having a snarky chat. It was just so odd. I think the one bright spot in the movie was Joe. I can't remember the actor's name off the top of my head, he was in Late Night With the Devil. But he did a good job with what he was given. Would not recommend going to see this in the theater, maybe streaming, but even then that would be a stretch.