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No Me Sigas
Movie

No Me Sigas

2025 • Horror

Woke Score
1.4
out of 10

Plot

Seeking social media fame, Carla fakes ghost encounters in an abandoned apartment. When she accidentally summons a real evil spirit, her possession blurs the line between authentic and staged content for her viewers.

Overall Series Review

The film "No Me Sigas" operates first and foremost as a moral horror story centered on a critique of modern influencer culture, where the protagonist's vanity and desperate chase for online virality lead to her spiritual undoing. The narrative's core conflict is the destructive blurring of staged digital reality versus authentic, ancient evil. The film's setting and production are authentically Mexican and Spanish-language, utilizing Mexican spiritual traditions and folklore with reverence. This cultural grounding inherently bypasses many of the standard 'woke' pitfalls, as the casting is authentic to the setting and the cultural themes celebrate, rather than denigrate, the home civilization's heritage. The plot is driven by an individual character's ethical failure (faking content) and its supernatural consequence, not by intersectional politics, systemic oppression, or anti-Western/anti-religious lecturing. There is no evidence that it incorporates themes of gender ideology or centers alternative sexualities; the focus remains strictly on the psychological and spiritual horror of the possession and its documentation.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The film is an authentic Mexican production, set in Mexico City, featuring a Mexican cast and creative team. The casting is historically and culturally authentic, focusing on the story and its setting rather than forced insertion of diversity into a Western context. The central conflict is about individual ambition and delusion, not a lecture on privilege or systemic oppression.

Oikophobia1/10

The narrative is centered on embracing and utilizing Mexican spiritual traditions, lore, and authentic cultural locations. The filmmakers explicitly sought to bring Latin and Hispanic supernatural traditions to a wider audience with 'authenticity and heart.' The use of *curanderos* (healers) and the focus on family ties and tradition directly counters a spirit of civilizational self-hatred, instead showing gratitude for and respect for home culture and heritage.

Feminism3/10

The protagonist, Carla, is a young female influencer whose ambition drives the plot. While this could be seen as a 'Girl Boss' setup, her character arc is a cautionary tale: her intense focus on career (being an influencer) and faking reality is portrayed as a critical flaw that leads to disaster (possession), not as a path to instant, unearned perfection. The male characters are minor. The score is low because the critique is on *vanity* and *influencer culture*, not a blanket vilification of all men, but raised slightly as the central figure of ambition and failure is a 'Girl Boss' archetype.

LGBTQ+1/10

There are no readily apparent mentions of centering alternative sexualities, deconstructing the nuclear family, or engaging with gender ideology in the plot or cultural commentary. The focus is on a traditional horror narrative involving a spirit, a possession, and the protagonist's best friend/friend group.

Anti-Theism1/10

The film's core conflict is explicitly spiritual, involving a 'real evil spirit' and the use of authentic Mexican spiritual traditions for context and potential resolution. The plot acknowledges an objective supernatural/moral reality (an 'evil entity') and uses spiritual practices as a key element of the story. This stands in direct opposition to moral relativism or the demonization of religion (which in this context is traditional/folk Catholicism and spiritualism).