The movie "Rosario" (2025) opens in 1999 at a crowded Brooklyn apartment where a young Rosario, played by Emilia Faucher, is celebrating her First Communion with her immigrant Mexican family. The atmosphere is tense: her mother Elena is coughing and unwell, her father Oscar looks worried about Rosario’s future, and her grandmother Griselda mysteriously disappears into her bedroom. Rosario, curious, follows her grandmother down a dark, eerie hallway and finds maggots and Griselda acting cold and strange, hinting at something sinister behind the door.

Cut to the present day, Rosario (Emeraude Toubia) is now a successful Wall Street stockbroker living in a sleek Manhattan apartment, having distanced herself from her family and culture. She receives a phone call that her grandmother Griselda has died suddenly in her rundown apartment. Rosario rushes there to stay with the body until the ambulance arrives, but a major blizzard shuts down the city, forcing her to remain overnight.

As Rosario waits, she explores the apartment and discovers a hidden chamber behind a closet door filled with occult objects: skulls, cauldrons, and even a used childhood tampon, revealing that Griselda had been performing pagan rituals involving Rosario unknowingly for years. Rosario finds a cilice—a barbed belt strapped to her grandmother’s leg—and realizes the scars on Griselda’s body were self-inflicted as part of these rituals, which may have included animal sacrifices.

Throughout the night, Rosario is tormented by a malevolent spirit linked to the curse. The spirit physically attacks her: scratching her face with barbed wire, chasing her like a dog that bites her, choking her, and slamming her head into metal gates and walls. Flashbacks show Rosario’s mother suffering similar physical trauma while fleeing immigration agents crossing the border illegally, connecting the family’s past suffering to the present supernatural torment.

One chilling moment shows worms crawling out of Griselda’s corpse, one burrowing into Rosario’s hand and traveling up her arm to her head. Rosario painfully extracts it with tweezers, but the wound leaves a permanent scar marking her as cursed.

Rosario’s night is filled with escalating hauntings and eerie encounters, including visits from a suspicious neighbor played by David Dastmalchian. The tension builds as Rosario desecrates her grandmother’s corpse in a desperate attempt to break the Palo curse that haunts her family.

The film closes on Rosario grappling with the heavy price of the American dream her family sacrificed for. Despite her success and assimilation, she cannot escape the dark legacy of her grandmother’s occult practices and the curse that now marks her. The story ends with Rosario physically and emotionally scarred but still fighting, embodying a complex arc from a distant, ambitious woman to one confronting her haunted heritage head-on.

This narrative unfolds almost entirely within a single harrowing night, blending visceral horror with family drama and cultural tension, anchored by Emeraude Toubia’s compelling performance as Rosario.

1. What is the nature of Rosario's relationship with her grandmother Griselda, and how does it evolve throughout the story?
2. What role does Griselda's practice of black magic or occult rituals play in the unfolding events?
3. How does Rosario's cultural background and family history influence her character and decisions?
4. What significance does the hidden dungeon and the disturbing items Rosario finds there have in the story?
5. How does the blizzard and the setting of the grandmother's rundown apartment contribute to the atmosphere and tension in the film?

The movie Rosario (2025) is not family friendly and is rated R due to its intense horror content, including bloody violence and some language. It contains several scenes that may be objectionable or upsetting for children or sensitive viewers:

• Frightening jump scares and an unsettling, eerie atmosphere.
• Grotesque body horror involving blood, wounds, and disturbing supernatural occurrences, including a reanimated corpse that moves violently and grotesquely.
• Visceral imagery such as maggots and a claustrophobic, dank apartment setting.
• Physical assaults and bloody attacks depicted graphically.
• The supernatural forces are malevolent and aggressive, creating genuinely frightening horror sequences.

These elements combine to create a disturbing and unsettling experience that is intended for mature audiences and is not suitable for children or those sensitive to horror violence and gore. The film’s focus on mood, atmosphere, and intense horror visuals makes it inappropriate for family viewing.