Prolific Filipino helmer Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr.’s latest big-screen endeavor “Mystery of the Night” is a supernatural folktale so beautifully atmospheric that one can almost overlook its escalati…
Solenn Heussaff, Benjamin Alves, Gina Alajar, Elizabeth Oropesa, Rosanna Roces, Alan Paule, Mercedes Cabral, Radha, Menggie Cobarrubias, Anne Garcia, Mariella Castillo, Neil Perez, Angeline Sanoy, Sachzna.” is a supernatural folktale so beautifully atmospheric that one can almost overlook its escalating problems — for a while, at least.
After a brief flash-forward to climactic events, and opening credits that, in shadow-play style illustrate the mythology of vengeful forest spirits , the story begins in a provincial city of the colonial era about 200 years earlier. There, the local gentry are offended by the ravings of an apparent madwoman , who claims she was seduced and defiled by an alleged man of God. Irked that the accusation is “tainting the reputation” of the church is Father Barroso , who may have been her rapist.
Much later, the mayor’s strapping, now-grown son Domingo ventures off into the forest to continue dad’s hunting tradition. He soon encounters a feral, shamelessly naked but cautiously friendly young woman he dubs Maria — dallying long enough to steal her heart, and maidenhead. But Domingo’s already got a wife at home, to whom he eventually returns. And once scorned, a half-human, half-Aswang female has more than an ordinary woman’s worth of hellish fury to deliver.
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