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As a film student in the mid-2000s, Mexican writer-director Isaac Ezban watched Guillermo del Toro’s masterpiece “Pan’s Labyrinth” in awe.

“In an interview, Del Toro talked about the contrast between beauty and brutality, and that really stuck with me,” Ezban told De Los during a recent Zoom conversation.

Aside from Del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “The Devil’s Backbone,” Ezban also cites as key references the Austrian psychological horror flick “Goodnight Mommy,” as well as George A. Romero’s “Day of the Dead” and the Spanish found-footage zombie saga “Rec.”

He had a couple of seasons with Toro Rosso and AlphaTauri but has raced in different series' since 2022.

He spent three seasons in F1 from 2009, mainly racing for Red Bull's junior team Toro Rosso, where he scored 25 of the team's 40 points in 2011 but lost his drive there at the end of that season.