No I'm not under "the influence" - although if I was, I would deny it, wouldn't I? Probably ... so bad joke aside and back the movie. I am surprised about the low rating, but it just goes to show you that tastes are different! Way different. And I'm not saying anything about anyone being right or wrong (although to keep a theme going that should be write or rong I reckon, as in "waist of time" - which in turn would make a great movie title) ... this is just about what someone likes to watch and what not.
This is more of slow burner, though it still has quite a lot of jump scares. And even the sturcture and build up is quite interesting. You kind of know that something wicked has happened and you know something evil is lurking ... and still it is comprehensive and it is tension filled enough to work. If you go with the flow that is ... can you dig it? I for once like my horror to challenge me a little bit, not to mention the characters involved!
4.6Plot summary
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 with Nora as objective after Victoria named her universal heiress in the will, and specially after to find Victoria's tools for practice witchcraft. Denied to die and looking for a different kind of immortality, Victoria's plan closes around her granddaughter, while Alicia starts a race against time to save Nora before it be too much late.
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Complete waste of time
There should be a penalty for the release of this kind of movie. Really. No joke! Bad acting, bad storyline, bad lighting... My boyfriend gave up after 50 minutes. I finished watching it some days later because... you know... I probably have mental illness.
Creepy but Predictable
The nurse Alicia (Manuela Vellés) is summoned by her sister Sara (Maggie Civantos) and returns to the dark house of her mother Victoria (Emma Suárez) with her husband, the unemployed electrician Mikel (Alain Hernández),and their ten year-old daughter Nora (Claudia Placer). Alicia and Victoria have been estranged to each other for many years and now Victoria is terminal in comatose and Alicia will help the nurse Ana (Marta Castellote). Alicia has recollections from her abused childhood, when Sara and she were maltreated and controlled by her mother in rituals of witchcraft. Mikel finds a room with witchcraft objects and occult books that belong to Victoria, shows to his wife and they keep it locked. Soon Nora communicates with Victoria and changes her behavior, befriend the creepy outcast girl Luna (Daniela Rubio) and Alicia realizes that her daughter in under control of the witch Victoria.
"La influencia", a.k.a. "The Influence", is a creepy horror film developed in slow pace like most of the European movies. The atmosphere is dark and gruesome, the performances are great but the story becomes predictable when the lawyer reads the testament. The screenplay could be better but the underrated "La influencia" is a good horror film. My vote is six.
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