Rosario is a horror movie you’ve seen before, though perhaps different in its Hispanic representation. Though with dark religious representation like this, maybe we should just leave the possession to the Catholics.

A Mexican-American professional gets a call that her abuela has died so she hops across town to be with the body until the ambulance arrives. She immediately realizes she’s ignored grandma for too long as evidenced by the mounds of dark religious mojo piling up in every corner and closet. And a demon… can’t forget the demon.

There’s so many red flags that its hard to imagine any sane person would stay in this apartment. Things happen that you just don’t shrug off. And, to be fair, there’s a sequence where she runs but bad weather forces her back. Fine. And the film plays with our expectations and suspicions about the neighbors to justify keeping her isolated.

It’s all just excuses to justify a fairly short but super predictable film about hauntings and demons and all that fun stuff. None of it done super well and often in so much darkness, it’s hard to tell what you’re even looking at. But it does occasionally fall into enough of a creeping vibe that it’s so sad the rest of the movie doesn’t hold up.

It’s not a terrible movie… it’s mostly watchable but a little too old hat… and the end just sucks in a way too many B horror movies try to have their cake and eat it too. Love the look and appearance of a religion you don’t see much on film… but it’d be better if it wasn’t represented by such a generic spook show movie.

Score: 71