Nokturno

2024 [TAGALOG]

Horror

2
IMDb Rating 3.7/10 10 230 230

folk horror

Plot summary

Jamie, an overseas worker, returns to her home province after her sister dies. She discovers that there is a curse over their family, and must face her past to save her soul from the entity known as the Kumakatok.

Director

Mikhail Red Photo
Mikhail Red

Top cast

Wilbert Ross Photo
Wilbert Ross as Manu
Ku Aquino Photo
Ku Aquino as Tito Jun
Nadine Lustre Photo
Nadine Lustre as Jamie
Eula Valdez Photo
Eula Valdez as Lilet
2160p.WEB.x265
4.46 GB
2794*1116
Filipino 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by hakanozerdem 3 / 10

A curse on a really dumb family.

So the movie is about a cursed family, which the curse is "if someone knocks your door 3 times at night, don't open."Guess what! They simultaneously open the door. And the knocking ones don't need to play any tricks on them. In 80s we got Freddy, and he used many tricks on his victims, but this protagonists do not even care, they know they are cursed, they know that they must not open the door, and they still open the door.To be honest, I forced myself to finish the movie, but it was hard, really hard.There's nothing special about this movie. The plot, the scenes, the jumpscares are all things we can see on any other horror movies. So, do not waste your time on this movie.
Reviewed by wiseausirius 1 / 10

Dumb Movie with Dumb Characters

Reviewed by roan-santiago 2 / 10

Wasted potential, missed opportunity

The film has a similar vibe and feel to The Ring (2002) except there's one huge problem: Nokturno is boring.Every scene feels both lacking and drawn-out at the same time. The events feel almost disjointed. This happens, and then this happens, and then this. We're just going from one boring scene to the next. The characters don't have any depth to them. They just... are. There's a semblance of a backstory there but it's so hard to care when you're staving off boredom.Add to that the dumb characters and lackluster scriptwriting, and this whole film is just one big missed opportunity.Look. The premise is that characters are apparently cursed by some strange entity that knocks after midnight. If you open the door, you die. The thing is, I don't get how it's difficult to avoid dying in this situation. Like, it you know you can get killed by opening the door after midnight, then maybe... don't open the door after midnight? Especially when the "person" on the other side of the door isn't speaking? Is that hard?The premise is promising, I'll give it that. And there were some genuine scares in there (mainly jumpscares). It's just so sad because the film's problems are reflective of most Filipino horror movies as a whole, particularly those released within the last decade or so. I find it sad because I know we can have good horror movies -- we've done it before. For example, Feng Shui (2004) was fun. Decently scary, with great characters and a much better story. It has its issues but I still watch it at least once a year.Nokturno? Eh, I'm pretty sure I'll never watch this film again unless I get paid. It's that boring and that forgettable. And that's a shame, isn't it? Even Nadine Lustre top-billing couldn't save this one.
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