No dejes a los niños solos

A mother moves into a new house with her two children. One night she must leave the siblings home alone. What begins as a blast of carefree play soon turns into a claustrophobic horror story.

Newly widowed Cata attends a party, leaving her two young sons, Mati and Emi, alone at their new house. As the brothers attempt to find their games console their rivalry raises its head. 

With this relatively simple premise, Emilio Portes builds a vibrant film that quickly moves from the freedom of play to dangerous mind-games. Known mainly for his comedies, No dejes a los niños solos is the second excursion of the Mexican filmmaker into the horror genre, after Belzebuth (2017).
 
The film unfolds, in parallel, across two different locations: the party that Portes approaches via a comedy of manners; and the home where the painful dynamics between siblings are enacted. With more than a wink to Chris Columbus’ Home Alone (1990) and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense (1999), No dejes a los niños solos is an exciting exercise in psychological horror that mixes the tradition of the haunted house with the weight of unresolved trauma. 

– Cristina Álvarez López

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