No Voltees – Movie Review | Tubi (4/5)

NO VOLTEES on Tubi is a Mexican horror-thriller by the director of The Exorcism of God. A very small cast tells the story of sinister hauntings and deep family trauma. Read our full No Voltees movie review here!

NO VOLTEES is a new Tubi horror thriller that offers both intense jump scares and brutally realistic trauma and abuse. If you can’t stomach domestic abuse (of adults and kids), then this might be too much for you.

However, I have to say that the story is important. Also, if you’d rather watch it as a story simply about a haunting then you can focus on that instead. Well, maybe. I couldn’t pull the two apart – nor should you.

Continue reading our No Voltees movie review below. Find it on Tubi from September 20, 2024.

Don’t Look Back

In No Voltees, we quickly understand the title as the now adult twins have flashbacks to their childhood. The title is Spanish for “Don’t look back” (or “Don’t turn around”) and was a sentence spoken by their abusive father.

When the movie opens, the two estranged twins – a man and a woman – return to their childhood home to help their mother. She suffers from dementia and can no longer stay in her home alone.

Okay, there’s more to her situation, but you should experience this for yourself.

What makes this a horror story is the traumatic and abusive childhood the adult children are confronted with when they return home. In fact, the man has completely blocked out most of his childhood and only starts remembering now.

The woman, however, remembers all too clearly. And it’s affecting her adult life and relationships. Including her relationship with her mother!

Eerily good portrayals

As with any movies that depict abusive behavior, it requires a lot of the actors. Both those inflicting pain and those suffering under it.

For No Voltees, we see Paulette Hernández (Saw X) and Alan Alarcón as the two adult children of the house, Aurora and Martín. As adults, they are trying to escape their childhood trauma, but not succeeding very well.

Ignoring trauma rarely helps in the healing, as they will learn.

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As stated initially, this is also a movie that features a sinister haunting, so we are dealing with the supernatural as well. And yes, it does get extremely creepy and very scary.

The fact that their mother (Lucero Trejo) looks very much like a stereotypical evil witch doesn’t hurt the creepy vibe either. In a small key role, we also see Rogelio Gracia from Society of the Snow (org. title: La sociedad de la nieve).

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The director of No Voltees (or Don’t Look Back) is Alejandro Hidalgo. He previously directed the amazing Mexican horror movie The Exorcism of God (2021).

His feature film debut was another brilliant movie titled The House at the End of Time from 2013. Having loved – and never been able to forget – his previous two movies, I obviously had expectations to like this one as well. And he delivered again!

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Be sure to check out The Exorcism of God >

This is the first of his feature films where he isn’t always involved with writing the screenplay, so it could’ve been a miss in that sense. Fortunately, it really is not! For No Voltees, the screenplay comes from Ricardo Avilés.

After watching this story from Ricardo Avilés, I am very interested to see what else he has done. And, perhaps even more so, what he’ll be able to do next. Especially in the horror genre as he has a great sense of the sinister and creepy!

BTW, keep watching when the movie ends. There is an after-credit scene you might want to check out.

No Voltees is out on Tubi from Spetember 20, 2024.

Details

Director: Alejandro Hidalgo
Writer: Ricardo Avilés
Stars: Paulette Hernández, Alan Alarcón, Lucero Trejo, Rogelio Gracia, Pilar García Ayala