Santi, a young high-school student with a serious physical reaction to sunlight, is forced by his health to move with his single mother to a shadowy, isolated village in the mountains of Spain where the inhabitants begin to reveal themselves as strangely xenophobic. When terrible, violent events begin to occur, Santi becomes first a pariah at school and then strongly suspected by the police of hideous murders. Santi himself, however, wonders if he is not the next victim.
Cinematography
Shadow-drenched mountain landscapes that suffocate
Acting
Junio Valverde's fragile, sun-fearing vulnerability
Director
Isidro Ortiz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Spain's 2000s horror boom produced this rural chiller, part of a wave reclaiming local folklore over American slashers.
The film deliberately mirrors lycanthropy with xeroderma pigmentosum — both force transformation under moonlight, blurring monster and victim.
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