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The film opens on a stormy night in a cell, as James (Peter Tell) recounts the harrowing events of a terrible day to his prison counselor (Sherryl Despres). Cunningham’s engrossing low-budget ghost story still scares on its own terms. I don’t know how much the sloppy-gooey makeup effects cost, but the directors got their money’s worth.Įven though it borrows from “Ju-On: The Grudge,” “The Vigil” and other horror films, D.M. It’s also a surprisingly touching look at how people, especially parents and their kids, forgive one another when trauma is a parasite with sticky fingers. This dark horror-comedy, from the Spanish directing duo Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez, is more than a stomach-churning infection film. From there, it’s a slugfest between humans and evil ooze. As he transports her to the hospital, she spews a translucent goo that turns Mariela into a snarling killer ghoul. As night falls, they come across a gurgling organism that spits a teeny worm into Marta’s finger, and not long after, Blasco plows his van into a disfigured woman standing in the road. He’s a boor who doesn’t like feminists, and that doesn’t sit well with his three passengers one fateful day: Mariela ( ​​ Cecilia Suárez), a religious woman who has cancer, and Lidia (Cristina Alcázar ), who’s taking her grouchy teenage daughter, Marta (Paula Gallego ), to live with Lidia’s ex-husband.īut Blasco’s macho drivel is the least of the group’s worries.

Blasco (Ramiro Blas), a former bullfighter, drives a van that shuttles folks around Spain.