Rosario
Taking place mostly inside the walls of a single New York apartment during a storm, Emeraude Toubia stars as successful New York stockbroker Rosario "Rosie" Fuentes who returns to grandmother's (Constanza Gutierrez) apartment for the first time in years after learning of her death. In the middle of a winter storm, alone in the filthy apartment with the death body, Rosie starts having odd experiences resulting in her exploring the apartment and finding a locked room full of skulls, blood, a prayer/spell book, and a sacrificial Palo Mayombe cauldron which ties back to the film's opening scene showing us Rosie's last encounter with her grandmother on her first communion where she first got a glimpse of this hidden world.
Rosario is a pretty standard horror movie in that we follow our main character through a series of awful choices which she'll continue to make until she finally understands the truth of what she's dealing with. The film comes to a pretty satisfactory ending with our heroine defeating the malevolent spirit with whom a bargain was made all those years ago, before one final twist and an extended sequence offers more horror but ultimately isn't as fulfilling.
The film is notable for tying in familial obligation and legacy with its horror elements and, primarily, for its star. I've been a fan of Toubia since first seeing her in Shadowhunters. She carries the film completely on her shoulders, along with some creepy effects, as Alan Trezza's script allows her to run the gamut of emotion on one crazy night. The intimidate setting and small cast, which includes David Dastmalchian and Paul Ben-Victor as other creepy figures who live in her grandmother's building, José Zúñiga and Diana Lein as her parents, and Emilia Faucher as a young Rosario, all keeps the focus on Toubia who, while being better than the material she has to work with, nevertheless shines.
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