The Influence (2019)

After moving back to her family home to care for her dying mother, a nurse haunted by her childhood memories must struggle with an evil force in the house.

Director:

Denis Rovira van Boekholt

Writers:

Ramsey Campbell, Michel Gaztambide

Stars:

Manuela Vellés, Maggie Civantos, Alain Hernández

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Manuela Vellés	...	Alicia
Maggie Civantos	...	Sara
Alain Hernández	...	Mikel
Claudia Placer	...	Nora
Emma Suárez	...	Victoria
Daniela Rubio	...	Luna
Ramón Esquinas	...	Abuelo
Felipe García Vélez	...	Tío Pedro (as Felipe Vélez)
Mariana Cordero	...	Srta. Mejido
Marta Castellote	...	Ana
Sofía Tolina	...	Alicia Niña
Berta Sánchez	...	Sara Niña
Iratxe Emparan	...	Bea
Daniel Currás	...	Electricista Cotarello
Carles Cuevas	...	Fran

Storyline

Alicia is a nurse who moves from the city to her natal little town of Duesos (municipality of Caravia, east to Principality of Asturias; northwest to Spain), in order to care Victoria, her aging and dying mother, connected to a life support machine to still breathing when she fell in a coma one month ago, after three years struggling with a terminal disease. Moving there with her unemployed husband Mikel and their daughter Nora, Alicia meets again with her younger sister Sara and she meets Ana, Victoria's nurse assistant. At the same time that Alicia tries to reconcile her present with a hard childhood due to the abusive and dominant Victoria, a witch turned crazy after the death of her husband (Alicia and Sara's father) and she blamed them by it, Mikel finds a job in the port town, and Nora meets a strange little girl, Luna, who bad behavior and attitude starts to affect her. Suspecting about her own mother despite the coma, the changes in Nora makes Alicia to think in an evil plot ...

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Plot Keywords:

mother daughter | mother | coma | town | witchcraft | 

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

11 October 2019 (USA)

Also Known As:

Influenze maligne

Box Office

Budget:

$4,500,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$587,782

Company Credits

Production Co:

La Ferme! Productions, Mogambo, Nadie es Perfecto

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Atmos

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

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Trivia

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User Reviews

What a steaming pile ...

Maybe the Spanish haven't been to the theater in the last 20 years, but there was nothing new about this movie and certainly nothing scary. It crawled along and went back on forth on plot points. One moment the mother and daughter both seem to be possessed and working together, the next they're still both possessed but working at odds. The grandmother wants her body to die, so the daughter tries to do it once..... wouldn't you keep trying until you succeeded???? As always, fk turning on the lights, or letting in any natural light so the viewers could see half the movie, nope, it's best to leave us literally in the dark wondering at what's going on.

TLDR: don't waste your time.