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.

Thursday, March 29, 2018

The Debutantes (2017)

the debutantes 2017 horror movie

The Debutantes is a 2017 pinoy horror movie starring Sue Ramirez (Kate). The movie talks about revenge after being humiliated shamed in front of her classmates.

Kate is a strange and weird girl who wants to be friends with the popular girls in school such as Lara (Miles Ocampo), Jenny (Jane De Leon), Candice (Michelle Vito) and Shayne (Chanel Morales). Kate and Lara became friends after asking her to tutor one of their subjects to pass. They became close after that favor was granted by Kate.

However, during the debut party, Kate was humiliated by Lara's friends without her knowledge that this will happen. Due to this, Kate was really upset and rejected all Lara's calls. After a while she then accepted Lara's apologies after her effort f asking forgiveness.

The night came when Kate starts to have strange dreams about the girls dying. Kate tries to warn the girls in order to save them, but they don't listen to her. Kate started to feel uneasy when something bad is about to happen. As a result, each of the girls started to die strangely one by one.

Later, she discovered that the one who killed the girls one by one was her imaginary friend Juana. An enchanted creature who is hiding in a kid's body whom she already knew when she was still young. They remained friends even in her current teenager life. The kid is not human and it came from the outside world of enchanted ones but Kate treated her as her best friend since Juana is always there for her. Juana did the revenge after Kate was treated inappropriately by her so called new friends.

Lara was the last one that should have been killed but Kate interrupted Juana and instead stabbed herself after knowing that they had already united even when they were young. Lara lived when she was saved by Kate but it's only temporary.

Amalanhig: The Vampire Chronicles (2017)

amalanhig 2017 horror movie

Amalanhig is a 2017 pinoy horror movie starring Jerico Estregan as Dan.

In Visayan mythology, Amalanhig is believed to be an evil creature in Hiligaynon speaking groups in Panay Island. A monster with extreme thirst of human blood similar to zombies and vampires, and so with Aswang.

The story started when the Dan's team have a hold of a diary written a long time ago by a victim of Amalanhig. It was stated in that diary that they violated the old traditions that cost their lives.

Due to this, the team headed to San Sebastian to look for Amang Kulas, an old folk that is known to be knowledgable about Amalanhig. Their aim is to investigate further on this incident as also part of their school project. They successfully met him but Amang Kulas warned them not to proceed in going that place because of the evil spirits and the dangers that they might face but due to their eagerness, they still headed to that place up to the old man's residence.

They were allowed to stay camping outside the old man's house. However, due to their excitement, some of the team members entered an old ruins to explore. Out of their curiosity, they discovered something inside where the possessed Amalahig is resting so this caused their lives in danger.

Amang Kulas later disclosed about the Amalanhig who is actually his brother who turned into a monster due to the bad experiences in his life where his wife and daughter were killed. He turned himself into a blood thirsty creature that killed the previous visitors of their place including the one that wrote the diary.

With this, Amang Kulas decided to end the Amalanhig's rage but almost failed to do it. Fortunately, Dan helped him and stabbed the Amalanhig using the dagger that is believed to be the only weapon that could kill the monster.

Dan and his girlfriend were the only ones who survived fighting with the Amalanhig but they didn't know that it's not over yet.