Mystery of the Night

Original title: Misterio de la Noche

105 minutes • 2019 • 4.0 Score

Spanish-ruled Philippines, 1800s: A woman, raped and banished to the woods on a full moon’s night, sees her newborn child swallowed by animalistic shadows lurking in the foliage. Raised by the forest’s mysterious ghouls and demons — boars, wild cats and a many-eyed sage — the child grows.

Adolfo Alix Jr.

Director