Laravel response()->view() 500 Error

This pushes a 500 error (that isn't handled by Laravel BTW):

return View::make('view-path-and-name');

and this:

return response()->view('view-path-and-name');

and this:

return view('view-path-and-name');

I only get this error on our production server (AWS). The code runs fine on our local machines. Also, can't find where this error is logged on AWS. Checked all the usual places: storage/logs also /var/log/.

Looks like there's something wrong with the Laravel install... but can't imagine how that might have happened. Everything was working fine until this morning and no one touched Laravel's code.

Help.

via Chebli Mohamed