A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."
Acting
Leguizamo's desperate, sweaty charisma carries every frame.
Direction
Cordero weaponizes the camera as accomplice, not observer.
Writing
The script refuses easy heroes—everyone's hands get dirty.
Director
Sebastián Cordero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ecuador's first real international breakout hit, this put Latin American thriller on the map before the genre exploded.
Cordero based Bonilla on real Miami TV journalists who covered Latin American crime like sport; the film predicted our true crime obsession by two decades.
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john leguizama is the bomb
@MoonKeepa
boring :(
@bobymalony
Del Toro directed so there's some gross weird stuff in there, guaranteed.
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