The film was inspired by a homicide case that occurred in Fujian, in 2014.

[4][5] The film stars Ariel Lin, Jiang Wu, Kara Hui, Chen Xiao and Lan Cheng-lung.

[6][7] The Mysterious Family revolves around Miao Miao, a young woman whose life and mental state changes after surviving a brutal attack by a stranger.

When the mother was confronting her daughter's rapist, the English subtitles went, "You have the nuts to do it, why not have the balls to admit it?"

He also remarked that "Mixing nuts and balls is clearly a case of a subtitler gone rogue.