La Luna Sangre (English: The Blood Moon) is a 2017 Philippine horror-fantasy drama television series. Directed by Richard Arellano, Rory Quintos and Mae Cruz-Alviar, it stars Kathryn Bernardo, Daniel Padilla, Angel Locsin and Richard Gutierrez. It is the third installment of Lobo and the sequel to Imortal. The series premiered on ABS-CBN's Primetime Bida evening block and worldwide on The Filipino Channel on June 19, 2017 to March 2, 2018.
This series provides examples of:
- Abusive Parents: Sandrino's mother is a lovely woman who always physically and verbally abused her kid, to the point of attempted murder.
- Beauty Inversion: A Downplayed example for Tristan. When he's still living a normal life, he has an unflattering man-bun and deep dark circles under his eyes. Tristan even spends a scene unhappily looking at his dark circles in the mirror of his jeepney. But plenty of women still find him attractive; he still looks generally like Daniel Padilla, after all. It's more about bringing him to a more "normal" level of good-looking than a celebrity type of good-looking.
- Gratuitous Spanish: Unlike Lobo or Imortal, which have been sprinkled into the Filipino lingua franca as loan words, the title La Luna Sangre was not understandable to most local viewers.
- Horror Hunger: Diana, Sandrino's lover, is explicitly barred from re-entering the human world for this reason. She has to learn how to control her hunger for human blood first.
- I Have No Son!: Sandrino's mother had this view towards him.
- It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: Ever since she was a child, people have been counting on Malia to save them. This takes a toll on her, especially when they begin to decide that she's not living to her prophesied power nearly enough.
- Red String of Fate: The prophecy that pits Malia and Tristan against each other, which even causes a shock wave that sends the two literally flying in opposite directions when they first make physical contact.
- Romantic Vampire Boy: Tristan. He's a human as far as he's aware, however. The audience knows he isn't.
- Take Over the World: Elize tells Diana in plain terms that this is Sandrino's goal.
- Tragic Villain: Sandrino's parents abused him and locked him up because he was a vampire and thus a "halimaw" (monster).
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: As a child, Sandrino was very meek and just wanted his mother to be kinder to him.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Sandrino. Among other things, his mother made active attempts to murder him as a child.
