Tormento Trailer Arrives as Mexico’s Biggest Genre Release of 2025 Begins Its Rollout

Natalia Solián descends into terror in Olallo Rubio’s Tormento.

TelevisaUnivision, Videocine, BH5 Studios, and FilmSharks have officially unleashed the first trailer for Tormento, the latest Mexican horror feature expected to dominate the country’s genre box office in 2025. Directed by Olallo Rubio, the film marks a major return to horror for Natalia Solián — star of Huesera: The Bone Woman — who leads the film as Brenda. For HMU readers, Solián is a familiar face; we interviewed her and even spent time with her during the Huesera festival circuit run, and she remains one of the most compelling talents working in Mexican cinema today.

Tormento follows an exhausted security guard transferred to the graveyard shift at a morgue — only to discover that silence and shadows conceal a malevolent presence with no intention of letting its visitors leave. The early footage carries heavy Nightwatch energy: sterile hallways, humming lights, creeping dread, and the kind of isolated late-night paranoia that horror fans live for. Anyone who has ever wondered why a human being would willingly take a job guarding a morgue is about to feel very vindicated.

The film opens across Mexico starting today, November 13, with word-of-mouth expected to hit fast. This is BH5 Studios territory — a company known for commercial genre crowd-pleasers — and Tormento feels engineered to make audiences scream in unison. Global sales, represented by FilmSharks, begin this week at AFM. Despite an earlier early communication error about territories, FilmSharks has confirmed that Tormento is being sold worldwide, including North America.

Producer Guido Rud said in a statement: “We are so glad to collaborate again with Videocine and BH5 Studios, this time as executive producer and sales agent for what could be one of the biggest genre cinema releases of the year. The IP and the film are amazing genre crowd pleasers that we expect to sell widely.”

The trailer and artwork paint a clear picture: this is a supernatural chamber thriller driven by performance and atmosphere, anchored by Solián’s intensity and Rubio’s commitment to overwhelming isolation. If it hits the U.S. market, Tormento could be one of the breakout international horror releases of 2025.

Watch the trailer, check out the first artwork, and expect more coverage soon as Tormento builds momentum out of Mexico and toward a global audience.