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. This isn’t anything memorable or noteworthy but it does make an effort, has a fascinating premise, and the monster is a good one.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. The being is a grotesque, inky black slimy mess of muddy features, gaping orifices and arachnid like physicality, able to change its form and mimic those it devours somewhat, and there’s a folklore based backstory for it I enjoyed too. The special effects for this thing are cool, if a bit under-lit.
So everyone but him is totally unprepared for the arrival of this creature, to its advantage. Problem is, he didn’t inform anyone what’s really going on and they all just think they’re part of a slightly less than routine drug trial, because they’d never have agreed to this other idea, let alone believe him. Of course the entire thing goes disastrously, the being shows up and starts attacking everyone one by one, messing up the fabric of reality and causing a whole lot of confusion. He also hires a medium (Nadine Velasquez) to oversee the experiment and a bunch of chatty science undergrads and stages the whole thing in a dilapidated house just outside LA, in hopes to lure this thing back from the netherworld and get some long awaited revenge. He organizes a sort of scientific seance, using the powers of an untested chemical serum that works on the pineal gland, propelling the perception of whoever takes it partly into the spirit realms that exist within ours, but are usually invisible. Kretschmann, getting to play a good guy and lead role for once, plays a paranormal scientist whose son was once snatched in the night and killed by some kind of terrifying inter-dimensional being. The is squarely B grade territory but at least it made a commendable effort and is quite enjoyable, for what it is.
I didn’t expect much from Discarnate (aka Shapeshifter in some dvd regions), a super low budget supernatural horror I only really watched for Thomas Kretschmann, an actor I greatly admire.
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