La segua
La segua, a mythical woman with the face of a horse, appears to the travelers in colonial Costa Rica. A young and beautiful woman is tortured by the apparitions, as the man she loves gets crazy when h…
La segua
La segua, a mythical woman with the face of a horse, appears to the travelers in colonial Costa Rica. A young and beautiful woman is tortured by the apparitions, as the man she loves gets crazy when he sees this mythical monster. This rare Costa Rican story takes place at the end of the colonial era and involves superstition, possession and female sorcerers. Encarnacion (Isabel Hidalgo) is a beautiful villager and Petronila (Blanca Guerra) is her jealous, and evil nemesis. When Petronila's love interest, a fetching young Spanish lieutenant, starts to fall for Encarnacion, Petronila gets even by simply destroying his sanity with a vile potion. A similar episode occurs when another stranger comes to look for gold and gets involved with Encarnacion. Finally, Petronila sees Encarnacion herself as the basic problem and begins to delude her with suggestions that she is actually a "segua" or a female spirit that attacks men. —Ørnås
La segua
Drama,Horror,Romance
Film Details
La segua, a mythical woman with the face of a horse, appears to the travelers in colonial Costa Rica. A young and beautiful woman is tortured by the apparitions, as the man she loves gets crazy when he sees this mythical monster. This rare Costa Rican story takes place at the end of the colonial era and involves superstition, possession and female sorcerers.
Encarnacion (Isabel Hidalgo) is a beautiful villager and Petronila (Blanca Guerra) is her jealous, and evil nemesis. When Petronila's love interest, a fetching young Spanish lieutenant, starts to fall for Encarnacion, Petronila gets even by simply destroying his sanity with a vile potion. A similar episode occurs when another stranger comes to look for gold and gets involved with Encarnacion.
Finally, Petronila sees Encarnacion herself as the basic problem and begins to delude her with suggestions that she is actually a "segua" or a female spirit that attacks men. —Ørnås.