Director: Homero Bueno
Grief has a way of following people home, and in "Los Habitantes" it follows Emiliano straight back through the front door of the house he grew up avoiding, turning a quiet Mexican horror-thriller into a slow reckoning with everything his accident left unresolved.
What is Los Habitantes about?
After surviving a serious accident, Emiliano returns to Monterrey to rebuild a life that no longer fits the way it used to. The family home he moves back into carries its own weight, and it isn't long before he starts noticing presences that no one else in the house will acknowledge. Rather than staging a straightforward possession story, the film treats these apparitions as extensions of unresolved family history, letting Emiliano's physical recovery and his psychological one blur together until it's unclear which wound is actually healing. Director Homero Bueno keeps the scares grounded in domestic spaces, favoring long silences and half-lit hallways over shock cuts, so the dread accumulates the way it does in a house where something has been left unspoken for years.
Cast & crew
Jorge Luis Moreno anchors the film as Emiliano, playing recovery as something closer to disorientation than triumph, while Angélica Aragón brings a matriarch's weary authority to a household that clearly has its own history to protect. Estefanía Hinojosa and the rest of the ensemble fill out a family dynamic where every character seems to be managing a secret of their own, which keeps the tension distributed rather than resting entirely on jump scares.
Context & significance
"Los Habitantes" premiered in 2023 as part of a recent run of Mexican horror productions leaning into family trauma and domestic haunting rather than large-scale supernatural spectacle, a tendency that has given the genre a distinct regional voice in the last several years. Shot largely on location in and around Monterrey, the film uses its setting's specific textures rather than a generic haunted-house template. At 95 minutes it stays tight, resisting the urge to pad out its atmosphere with subplots.
Where & how to watch
"Los Habitantes" streams on K-Time with a Farsi-language interface and comes with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles available, so viewers can pick whichever suits them. A free account login unlocks streaming, though this page itself can be read without signing in first.