Hurricane Season (2023)

Original title

Temporada de huracanes

Directed by

Elisa Miller

Genre

drama film, thriller film, folk horror

Country

Mexico

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

R

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Teenagers in a rural Mexican village find the dead body of a local woman known as La Bruja. The story explores what led to her death and the secrets hidden within the community.

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What happens

Hurricane Season (Spanish: Temporada de huracanes) is a 2023 Mexican drama film directed by Elisa Miller, from a screenplay she wrote with Daniela Gómez. It is based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Fernanda Melchor. The film begins with a group of teenagers who discover the corpse of La Bruja, a woman respected and feared by the community, floating in a canal near the village of La Matosa in the state of Veracruz. The film premiered on 21 October 2023 at the Morelia International Film Festival, where Miller and Gómez won the Best Screenplay award. It was released on Netflix on 1 November 2023. It received 11 nominations at the 66th Ariel Awards, and won 3 awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Makeup. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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