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Director Isaac Ezban (The Similars, The Incident) departs from his usual exploration of science fiction to deliver his first full horror feature, Evil Eye (Mal de Ojo). Ezban uses his sci-fi origins as an entry point into a horror fairy tale that blends Dominican myth and Mexican folklore with modern sensibilities for an emotionally charged, witchy story full of blood.

Parents Rebecca (Samantha Castillo) and Guillermo (Arap Bethke) grow increasingly worried over sickly young daughter Luna (Ivanna Sofia Ferro), who’s becoming increasingly resistant to treatment for her illness. They pack her up along with neglected older sibling Nala (Paola Miguel) and head to the countryside. The parents leave their children behind with Grandma Josefa (Ofelia Medina) as they head back to the city, searching for cures beyond conventional medicine. But Nala and Luna have never been to the countryside, nor have they ever met their strict grandmother. After Josefa...

Isaac Ezban's "Evil Eye" ("Mal de Ojo") welcomes and reassures audiences with grandmotherly comforts like a folkloric horror tale before nap time. Co-writers Junior Rosario and Edgar San Juan help Ezban summon brujas (basically witches) and terrify infirm children with witchy production value fit for the grimmest fairy tale books. "Evil Eye" explores Dominican campfire stories that drip of slime-green goo and adolescent curiosities about the dark arts. Ezban's filmmaking is a warm genre blanket that wraps around viewers, as the soothing bonds of bloodlines turn treacherous the farther we press into whimsically malevolent cultural influences.

Littlest Luna (Ivanna Sofia Ferro) suffers from an affliction that her parents will do anything to cure. Mother Rebecca (Samantha Castillo) and father Guillermo (Arap Bethke) have enough to worry about as their rental complex is ravaged by a sickness that continually infects children — luckily Luna and older sister Nala (Paola Miguel) remain unaffected,...

Evil Eye is a creepy tale that blends modern horror with classic folktales. When her sister Luna’s (Ivana Sofia Ferro) illness takes a turn for the worse, Nala's (Paula Miguel) parents decide on a last resort strategy and take the family out to the countryside to stay with their estranged grandmother. Nala’s mother Rebecca (Samantha Castillo) has kept her relationship with her mother somewhat mysterious. This is the first time the girls and their father are meeting the woman.

As the parents take off to investigate treatment options, they leave the girls in the care of Grandmother Josefa (Ofelia Medina). Luna largely seems fine with it. As a younger child, she is fairly easy to please and there is plenty of nature to explore on the grounds of the large home. Nala, on the other hand, immediately hates it. No wifi, no friends, nothing to do. Added...

From the director of Parallel, Isaac Ezban, comes his latest hellish film Mal De Ojo.

In a desperate attempt to find a cure for the disease that threatens the life of their youngest daughter, Rebecca and Guillermo (Nala and Luna parents) have decided to travel to Dominican Republic to find alternative solutions. After a few days at their grandmother´s country house, the girls eventually discover that the legends and superstitions of the area are rooted on real facts. Attracted by the forces emerging underneath and trying to protect her sick sister, Nala will have to take decisions that will transform her life forever.

Starring Paola Miguel, Ofelia Medina, Samantha Castillo, Arap Bethke, Ivanna Sofia Ferro, Paloma Alvamar, Claudia Garcia and Mauro Gonzalez and filmed in Mexico, check out the scary trailer now.

Big takeaways from the trailer: it’s in Spanish making it double-scary, the creepy crawling thing emerging...