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The best Filipino thriller movie I have seen in years or maybe in my life. In my opinion, no other Filipino thriller movie comes close.

This film is definitely something different for Filipino cinema! I was excited to watch it when I saw it on Netflix, though I haven't read the book it's based on.

That said, the story itself is unique and compelling. However, I struggled to catch some of the dialogue-especially with Father Jerome Lucero (played by Sid Lucero), who tended to mumble his lines. It was challenging to follow those moments without subtitles for the English parts. Still, the cast did a great job portraying their roles.

The cinematography was decent, and the color grading was okay. However, the music-something I'm very particular about-felt underwhelming. It had that typical Filipino "style" of scoring, which, in my opinion, could have been more dynamic and impactful.

This film guides the viewer through a really intense thriller about a Jesuit priest trying to find the murderer of several young boys.

The story is so intriguing that the little technical problems can be left in the background. Suspense is the way the film takes to touch some hard topics that exist out of fiction.

Learning the story in this film is based on one of the first Philippino mystery novels by F. H. Batacan (Maria Felisa H. Batacan) was also an outstanding surprise .

With all the cast, how the movie plotted and directed. This is movie.

I really like the film overall but there were some technical problems on the way to the climax of the film. One was the sound design of the footsteps as the priest walks on the wooden floor of the old building. Two is the shutter angle problem of the lightning strike or I'm guessing it was a light striking from outside the windows to fake a lightning strike.