Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2020

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
horror historical injustice trauma

Our Take

A socialite investigates a crumbling silver-mining mansion and finds it has been eating its inhabitants for generations. Moreno-Garcia writes the horror through a colonial lens — the house is a metaphor for extraction and the body is the site of it. Glamorous and genuinely disturbing in equal measure. Noemi walks into a trap wearing a cocktail dress and Moreno-Garcia makes both facts feel entirely correct.

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