El niño de la luna

12-year-old orphan David (Enrique Saldana) believes that he is a Moon Child, blessed with special powers. David is adopted by a secret organisation which takes him to their headquarters to test his psychic abilities; there, he meets Georgina (Lisa Gerrard) and Edgar (David Sust), two older subjects who have been chosen to mate with the aim of producing another Moon Child. When David learns that the couple are to be killed once the baby is born, he helps them to escape, the plan being to travel to Africa where David will fulfil his prophecy.

Directed by Agustí Villaronga, who gave us the shocking In A Glass Cage (1986), Moon Child is a mystical fantasy - not a horror film, despite being listed in my Aurum Encyclopedia of Horror - and it left me completely baffled. The cinematography is nice, with excellent camerawork, but Villaronga's script leaves much open to interpretation, and it's not easy to fathom what the director's intention was. As a result, I found myself quite bored, especially in the latter half of the film.

3.5/10, rounded down to 3 for Saldana's perpetual, gormless, open-mouthed expression - it's no surprise to me that this was his only film.