Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Ang Manananggal Sa Unit 23B (2016)

Ang Manananggal Sa Unit 23B 2016


Ang Manananggal Sa Unit 23B is a 2016 pinoy horror movie starring Ryza Cenon (Jewel)
and Martin del Rosario (Nico). Jewel lives a simple life in an urban apartment. She
rarely get out of her room at daytime except if she wants to breath fresh air in the
building terrace. Aside from being simple, she has a horrible secret that is different
to normal tenants in the building. She is a manananggal or a flying creature that will
temporarily separate from her lower body to look for victims to quench her thirst of
blood.

When her stomach begins to feel uneasy which is actually an unusual hunger, she needs
to rub some oil to go back to normal and that's where she needs to go out as a party
girl and look for someone that will join her in the dark to also become her victim. The
victims are usually males with their flesh torn apart from their bodies. She also
placed some signboards in the victim's body stating that "I am a pusher.." to make them
look like a murder victim involving drug issues.

Later, Nico and her grandmother settled on the same building which made them close even
in a short time. However, after watching the news that someone was murdered where he
saw Jewel get in that guy's car, he stayed away from Jewel for a while. They again get
along later on when she helped Nico pay the hospital bills when his grandmother got
sick which later died.

One night, due to extreme sadness, they immediately get along again and started making
out but Jewel felt the same problem and left Nico from his room. Nico followed her and
he witnessed how Jewel transformed and get out of the building with her current form.
When she got back, Nico stayed and again witnessed how Jewel returned to human form.
The neighbors also noticed that incident due to the noise that Jewel made.

Before the police arrived, Nico took Jewel away from the area and decided to go with
her anywhere wherever life love leads them.

The Ghost Bride (2017)



The Ghost Bride is a 2017 pinoy horror movie starring Kim Chiu as Mayen. The story started when Mayen's dad became sickly and she don't have much to give him proper medications. Aside from that, they also have other problems in the family.

One day, Angie (Alice Dixson) had a business proposal to Mayen offering large amount of money in exchange for becoming a Ghost Bride. This is a Chinese tradition wherein someone has to marry a dead man with conditions to always wear the bracelet as a sign of agreement. A special wedding ritual is also done to bind the two.

At first, Mayen agreed and wore the bracelet which was strictly emphasized by Angie if she doesn't want bad things to happen to her family. However, when she started to experience strange things, she tried to remove the bracelet from her wrist but it keeps coming back every time she removed it.

Removing the bracelet also resulted some strange illnesses to her dad and also danger to the rest of the family members. She also experience how the bracelet defended her when someone tried to do bad things to her like her businessman neighbor. With these incidents, she tried to investigate on the other consequences of this ritual. Afterwards, Mayen discovered that Angie is a member of a syndicate that always recruit girls to become a Ghost Bride.

To get away from the agreement, Mayen has to fight and claim his father's soul from the groom which she also needs to fly to China. They also need to do a counter ritual to prevent the bad spirit to do harm to her other family members. Mayen succeeded after fighting the spirit of the groom which placed her life in greater danger.