Found footage meets Filipino folklore—your VCR is watching back.
Season 1 • Episode 1
LatestPolice officers Sonny Cruz and Alice Lagaac discover a video tape addressed to Cruz from an unknown sender. The tape contains voyeuristic footage of a missing girl, Judy Evangelista, whose case has since gone cold. At the same time, Lagaac is troubled over her ex-husband Bronson's decision to send their son to study abroad. Bronson later talks with police chief Jemuel Sy, who expresses contempt for his predecessor. Meanwhile, local shaman and bar owner Magic Mike is worried for Cruz, who is haunted by recurring headaches and mysterious figures.
The year is 1999. In a cold sleepy town in the Philippine mountains, Officer Sonny Cruz begins receiving mysterious voyeuristic videotapes of a missing woman who vanished three years prior. As he begins to investigate the tapes with his partner Officer Alice Lagaac, the two regular cops become entangled in a world of mystery, supernatural and the occult.”
Cinematography
Lo-fi 4:3 videotape aesthetic that feels authentically cursed.
Direction
Liew and Dayao build dread through negative space.
Acting
Milby and Pressman ground cosmic horror in cop-show fatigue.
Creators
Bradley Liew, Dodo Dayao
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series draws on Philippine mountain folklore and post-colonial anxieties about hidden histories in isolated communities.
Dayao's script deliberately frustrates cop-show expectations—procedural logic fails against folk belief, and that's the point.
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