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New York Asian Film Festival 2019
June 28 - July 11, 2019
Two tragic stories of motherhood converge in Kenneth Lim Dagatan’s chilling feature debut, a phantasmagorically macabre tale of loss, sacrifice, and evil.
Two tragic stories of motherhood converge in this phantasmagorically macabre tale of loss, sacrifice, and evil. After his mother dies suddenly, Samuel goes into a mysterious cave that claims to grant wishes and asks for his mother’s life back. But the cave wants something in exchange. Meanwhile, a childhood friend of Samuel’s mother returns to town pregnant, reeling from her fiancé’s suicide. She has what the cave desires, so Samuel enlists his younger brother and sister in a sinister plan to get it at any cost. Kenneth Lim Dagatan’s chilling feature debut proves he was born to make horror films.
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