No me sigas (Don’t Follow Me) is a Mexican supernatural horror film that’s broken new ground for Blumhouse, as its first produced original Spanish language film.

Co-directed by siblings Ximena Garcia Lecuona and Eduardo Lecuona, No me sigas is the directorial debut for both siblings.

The film follows aspiring influencer Carla (Karla Coronado) who desperately wants her videos of ghost and supernatural events to go viral. After moving into an infamously haunted apartment building, Carla initially fabricates her supernatural experiences for views and follows, with the help of her successful beauty influencer friend Sam (Julia Maqueo). As Carla continues to fabricate videos, an unknown sinister entity in her apartment slowly tortures her.

Coronado and Maqueo share with us what influences them, working with the Lecuona siblings, and spooky things that happened on set.

Bonilla: As actors, who influences you? It can be other actors, filmmakers, or writers.

Coronado: I love Greta Gerwig. Since I saw Frances Ha for the first time, I just feel so related with her. I mean, that was Noah Baumbach directing. But the writing and the collaborative work, it makes me feel that there’s people that want to tell stories in the way that they can. In that case, it was kind of indie for the United States, but then it grew up to [this] whole thing. That [she’s] becoming the phenomenon that she’s becoming now.

Maqueo: I get influenced [by] a lot of people. I think we women, Mexican women, we have a lot of talent here and in our generation. Like with Carla, I saw [Greta’s] films. I love Florence Ha. Like, I really love her a lot. But, yeah, Guillermo del Toro.  I love [Frankenstein].

What was it like for you two to work with the two directors?

Coronado: I mean, they were amazing. Their brother and sister. And this is the first movie that they did together, or that they did ever, so that was pretty cool. Because I can see how they were approaching the script very differently. But both ways work perfectly for giving us a sense of the whole entire picture. So, for me, it was amazing to work with two of them. And they were so much fun. And they [had a] very modern way of approaching this very actual topic.

Maqueo: Yeah, and they’re also really young. It’s really, really fun, like watching two siblings working together. They gave us a lot of time to prepare our characters. And we also had a month of rehearsals. And yeah, they were with us, like 24/7 and [through] all this process. So, it was really fun.

Since this movie is very creepy and paranormal, did anything creepy or paranormal happen on set?

Coronado: Yeah, I mean a bunch of things. But I mean, there was one scene when Yankel [Stevan], the other actor and I were having like a love evocation ghost moment, and then two frames that were hanging since the whole shooting just fell immediately after we finished calling [the] ghost out. So that was one of the things that was creepy.

And a lot of crew were saying that they were hearing things at night. We were shooting [in] these very historical buildings in Mexico City, and they have so much history in it. So of course, every time we were getting into them, it felt like we were part of horror film in reality.

Maqueo: Yeah, like just the whole atmosphere, like the vibe, it was really spooky, because we were filming in spooky places, haunted places. They also do the rituals there. And it was crazy. It was like another character for the movie. More than just like that.

Karla, I saw that you have a web series on your Instagram. Seeing how you wrote, directed, and starred in that series, are you going to keep pursuing writing and directing in the future?

Coronado: Yes. The answer is yes. I feel like it was pretty fun, because I’ve been doing those experiments since a long time ago. But the last step, which is putting out there, is always the step where I stop. This is [why] this small series is important for me, because it’s the first one that I could totally like, close it, and put it there without thinking as much. I’m trying to write something else now because I want to shoot it. And that’s probably why I like Gerta Gerwig too. When I talk about her, it’s because I admire her. Because she does those things.

And Julia, I read that this was your first film role. Congratulations. How is this different for you as an actor, versus TV acting?

Maqueo: It’s really different, like the concept. We filmed it in a month. That was crazy. That was really fast. I’m used to filming [for] like six months or three months. I don’t know if this is a thing in another part of the world, but here [in Mexico] they call it baptized when you’re in your first film. I also went through that. It was really fun. I was ready to make this jump into movies and into theaters. I really enjoyed it. And I’m really grateful that I get to make my first movie, my first horror movie, with this amazing production and with this amazing crew and actors. I’m really excited.

No mi sigas is now streaming on Hulu.