Movie Details
Title: Mala Influencia (2025)
Genre: Psychological Thriller / Social Drama / Latin Noir
Country: Spain / Mexico
Duration: 2h 03min
Director: Isabel Coixet
Screenplay: Julio Rojas (42 DÃas en la Oscuridad)
Music: RosalÃa & Gustavo Santaolalla
Starring: Úrsula Corberó, Diego Calva, Ester Expósito, Tenoch Huerta, Carmen Maura
In the hyper-curated world of influencers, Mala Influencia pulls back the filter to reveal a chilling truth: sometimes the most toxic content is the one you can’t scroll past.
MarÃa (Úrsula Corberó), a once-viral lifestyle influencer now clinging to fame, lands a lucrative offer from a shadowy digital marketing firm in Mexico City. The catch? She must mentor a new talent, Luna (Ester Expósito), a magnetic but unpredictable teenager with a dark online persona and a rapidly growing cult following.
Key Themes & Visual Style:
Influence as Power and Poison: How online personas bleed into real-life consequences.
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Addiction to Validation: A chilling look at fame, vanity, and the price of relevance.
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Digital Horror: Fear that grows not from monsters, but metrics.
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Control and Collapse: A psychological descent into ego, envy, and exploitation.
- Neon-lit, claustrophobic interiors; stylized shots that mimic social media aesthetics (vertical frames, glitch effects, mirrored reflections).
- A palette of saturated pinks, cold blues, and washed-out whites to reflect the artificiality of digital life.
- RosalÃa’s haunting flamenco-infused vocals layered with Gustavo Santaolalla’s ambient guitar work build an atmosphere that’s sensual, eerie, and electric.
- Cinematography that fractures perspective—through phone screens, surveillance cameras, and hallucination sequences.
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