Passable thriller with plenty of twists and turns ; being confusingly developed . Mystery , intrigue about bizarre facts happen various characters interrelated each other by dark forces . The night of San Juan, a Spanish Halloween day , Miguel Gironza (Jose Sancho) kills his associate. Two elderly people (Pilar Bardem , Saturnino Garcia) are witness to the killing and predict that all of his dreams will come true thereafter . Gironza will know the price he has to pay when he watches a black cat with a moon shaped mark on its forehead . Many years later a delivery boy named Serafin (Antonio Hortelano) carries a message and then Gironza begins to see all his dreams come true . Then the unfortunate messenger with respiratory and cardiac problems, has an accident with his bike . Amid the chaos, he finds a basket inside which there is a black cat with a white spot on the forehead . In the basket is an address , which happens to be the home of two elderly persons.
The film contains tension , thriller , mysterous events , plot twists and , adding decent action set pieces with tense sequences especially in its final part in a unexpected denouement , near of the end . Fantasy thriller filled with surprises and flashbacks and being regularly realized . The original as well as fantastic idea about witchery is overspread throughout the movie , but not totally satisfactory , including conventional pitfalls . The main cast is frankly fine , the recently deceased Jose Sancho , Alberto San Juan , a gorgeous Italian diva called Manuel Arcuri . However , the first starring , Antonio Hortelano , is mediocre and overacting , including excessive gesticulation and he holds silly faces . The support cast is pretty good such as Jorge Sanz , Saturnino Garcia , Manuel Manquiña , Aitor Mazo , Blanca Marsillach and Pilar Bardem , Javier Bardem's mother .
Colorful and brilliant cinematography , filmed on location in Somosaguas , Torres Alameda , Madrid and final scenes in Punta Cana , Dominican Republican . Suspenseful and thrilling musical score by Mario de Benito , a good musician expert on sinister and mysterious atmospheres as proved in ¨Caja 507¨, ¨Rigor Mortis¨ , ¨Al Limite¨, ¨A Ciegas¨ , among others . The motion picture was middlingly directed by Jose Miguel Juarez , a nice writer/producer/filmmaker . This is his third picture , he had previously directed a comedy titled ¨Di Laura Que la Quiero¨, and a historical film , ¨Hijos Del Viento¨ , starred by Bud Spencer .
The film contains tension , thriller , mysterous events , plot twists and , adding decent action set pieces with tense sequences especially in its final part in a unexpected denouement , near of the end . Fantasy thriller filled with surprises and flashbacks and being regularly realized . The original as well as fantastic idea about witchery is overspread throughout the movie , but not totally satisfactory , including conventional pitfalls . The main cast is frankly fine , the recently deceased Jose Sancho , Alberto San Juan , a gorgeous Italian diva called Manuel Arcuri . However , the first starring , Antonio Hortelano , is mediocre and overacting , including excessive gesticulation and he holds silly faces . The support cast is pretty good such as Jorge Sanz , Saturnino Garcia , Manuel Manquiña , Aitor Mazo , Blanca Marsillach and Pilar Bardem , Javier Bardem's mother .
Colorful and brilliant cinematography , filmed on location in Somosaguas , Torres Alameda , Madrid and final scenes in Punta Cana , Dominican Republican . Suspenseful and thrilling musical score by Mario de Benito , a good musician expert on sinister and mysterious atmospheres as proved in ¨Caja 507¨, ¨Rigor Mortis¨ , ¨Al Limite¨, ¨A Ciegas¨ , among others . The motion picture was middlingly directed by Jose Miguel Juarez , a nice writer/producer/filmmaker . This is his third picture , he had previously directed a comedy titled ¨Di Laura Que la Quiero¨, and a historical film , ¨Hijos Del Viento¨ , starred by Bud Spencer .