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Madres () is a 2021 American horror film written by Mario Miscione and Marcella Ochoa directed by Ryan Zaragoza. It stars Ariana Guerra, Tenoch Huerta, Elpidia Carrillo, Kerry Cahill, Agung Bagus, Jennifer Patino, Britton Webb, and Evelyn Gonzalez. The film is the seventh installment in the anthological Welcome to the Blumhouse film series.
Jason Blum serves as a producer under his Blumhouse Television banner.
Not long after settling in, Diana begins to experience terrifying Hallucination and disturbing visions. She hears Whispering, sees shadows moving in the dark, and has nightmarish dreams involving faceless women screaming in pain and blood pouring from walls. Her body begins to react strangely, she develops unexplained rashes on her stomach and arms, and experiences intense Cramp and bleeding. The local doctor dismisses her concerns, attributing it to stress and a difficult pregnancy, but Diana knows something is wrong, something more than just physical.
She starts to Detective the town’s history and discovers that many Latina women in the area have suffered Miscarriage or have mysteriously become Infertility after giving birth. These women have been labeled as cursed by the community, and there’s even a rumor that a bruja (witch) is behind the sicknesses. Diana begins to suspect that these so-called “Curse” are a cover-up for something much more sinister.
As her visions intensify, she starts to see a ghostly woman in her house, sometimes appearing bloodied and holding a dead infant, sometimes crying or screaming in Suffering. The apparitions lead her to hidden areas of the house, including a locked basement where she finds medical files, photographs, and newspaper clippings that suggest women like her were taken and sterilized against their will.
The horror escalates when Diana confronts the town’s nurse, who has been overly kind and insistent about Diana’s prenatal care. The nurse becomes Hostility, and Diana learns the horrifying truth, the local clinic has been secretly sterilizing Latina women without their knowledge, under the guise of delivering their babies. Many of the women were drugged during labor and woke up to find they could never have children again. The clinic is part of a larger eugenics program designed to limit the reproduction of non-white communities.
Diana’s visions turn violent, she sees flashbacks of women being tied down and cut open, screaming while blood sprays across the walls of the clinic. The ghost she keeps seeing was one of the victims who died on the operating table. The spirits of these women are not just haunting Diana, they're trying to warn her.
Diana discovers that she is being targeted for sterilization. When she goes into early labor and is taken to the clinic, she fights to remain conscious. With the help of another local woman whose sister had gone missing after giving birth, Diana escapes the operating room just before they can operate on her. A confrontation ensues between her, the nurse, and the doctor, ending with a violent struggle. The ghostly victims appear, terrifying the nurse into madness. The doctor is fatally wounded in the chaos, his body grotesquely impaled on surgical instruments as the spirits exact their revenge.
Diana gives birth safely, and the Wrongdoing clinic is exposed. As authorities arrive, they uncover decades of medical abuse and discarded files of women who had been forcibly sterilized. The house where Diana and Beto lived is burned to the ground, along with the cursed relics and remnants of the past. In the end, Diana cradles her Infant, the final shot shows a bloodstain on the nursery wall.
| +Accolades for Madres ! scope="col" | Award ceremony ! scope="col" | Category ! scope="col" | Recipient ! scope="col" | Result ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | |
| Best Actress - Drama (Television) | Ariana Guerra |
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