Estrella (Paola Lara) is gifted three wishes by a teacher, mostly to calm her while the cartel shoots up their school. She returns home only to find her mother disappeared by the same cartel. A wish to bring her back is granted, but in the worst possible way. Now haunted by her mother's ghost, Estrella joins El Shine (Juan Ramón López) and his child gang. The five children are in possession of a cell phone with incriminating evidence on it and the cartel will stop at nothing to get it back. Estrella has two wishes left, but will they do more harm than good?
Ugh, I cannot get over what a great movie this is. It's very reminiscent of Guillermo Del Toro's dark fairy tales. There's a little Pan's Labyrinth, a little Devil's Backbone, with a layer of Peter Pan to it as well. Just excellent on all levels. The child actors are great, the effects work is good, and the pacing is extremely lean at 84 minutes. If you are sensitive to children in danger, maybe take it easy here, but otherwise the gore is pretty minimal. It's streaming on Shudder and it is absolutely worth your time.
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