Here Comes The Bride

The movie is not much of a horror but a mysterious funny movie about individuals who experienced "soul displacement" after a car crash during solar eclipse. Their souls separate from their bodies and enter to another body that made them exchange personalities. The person involved in the story are:

a. a bride
b. a maid
c. and old man
d. a gay stylist
e. a prosecutor

Those personalities exchanged by time and they seemed to be insane in the eyes of the persons around them. The bride enters the prosecutors body which is her auntie, the old man enters the gay stylist body, the prosecutor to the maid's body, the maid to the old man's body and the gay stylist to the bride's body. This happens to the magnetic hill where at the time they crashed is also the time total solar eclipse occur which they suspected as phenomenon effect.

They tried to return to their own bodies by going to magnetic hill again and crashed their cars but along trying their souls entered again another bodies interchanging the five of them. After many attempts they succeeded at last and lived happily ever after.

Petrang Kabayo

This movie is not much of a horror movie but a fantasy comedy movie about human turning into a horse because of a curse.

The story tackles about Peter where in his younger days he was physically abused by her Father because of being gay and everything he does following his desires of dressing like a girl was against his Father. One day he decided to get away carrying nothing just to escape from the cruelty of his Father. He fainted in the street and a rich woman found him and adopt him as a member of her family.

Everything changes since he was adopted because his attitude also changes as he becomes rich. He became cruel to this service masters at home and even in their ranch workers who take care of their horses. One day he was cursed by a "mysterious horse god" that if he will do bad things to others he will turn into a horse and he can go back in his human form if he will do good things.So everytime he can't control himself in insulting others the transformation starts and the antidote for stopping the curse is when someone kiss him to the lips.

The twist of the story is very interesting because he also met his Father again and insulted him and found out that his Father was looking for him many years ago after he fled and married again that's why he has a little sister. Until then he learned to forgive his Father after all.

He surpassed the curse in the end when being a horse he do good things to help others and he also entered a horse race driven by his ranch worker that kissed him in the end that's why he became human again.

Comedy and drama combined that makes Vice Ganda a very flexible actor and comedian. The movie brings fun and laughter as you go along watching it to the end.

Segunda Mano

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Segunda Mano is a 2011 pinoy horror movie that literally means "second hand". This movie talks about an antique shop owner, Mabel (Kris Aquino) haunted by her past when she lost her sister drowned at the beach in her younger years. She always saw her sister's ghost sometimes and even in her dreams. The twist of the story starts when she met Ivan (Dingdong Dantes) and fall in love with him. Ivan has a daughter with her separated her wife Mariella.

She also bought a bag to change her looks and make Ivan more attracted to her and make her daughter like her and trust her. Since she bought her bag strange things happened seeing things that she shouldn't see like the ghost of Mariella. People around her starts to die and worried if her bestfriend and her mother will be next.

Worried about the horrible things that had happened she realizes that the ghost of Ivan's wife has something to say to her or have a message like help.

As the story goes she found out that the only way to drive the ghost away from her is to break up with Ivan even if he already gave her engagement ring but Ivan doesn't agree with her so as what she was saying that she sees his wife's ghost.

The thrill starts when things owned by Mariella started to show up like the first bag, and then the dress and finally the car. She drove the car away from her bestfriend and the car takes her to where Mariella died. She found out that Mariella really cheated on Ivan with another man on the car and then Ivan followed them and killed the man and Mariella and drowned the car at the creek. That's why many are saying that the place is haunted because someone is showing late at night to the travelers.

The movie ends with struggle between Ivan and Mabel and the revelation that Ivan is the one responsible for all the killings that had happened. Ivan in his childhood witnesses his mother cheating on his father so it affected him and made him a secret psycho.

Mabel saves her mother from Ivan and the ghost of Mariella helped her to defeat Ivan and die in the pool. Later she discovered that Mariella is her lost sister and now she's in peace.

Tenement 2 (T2)

T2 or Tenement 2 is a 2009 pinoy horror movie that talks about a place in a building of Manila, Philippines where mysteries eventually happened. This movie talks about Claire (Maricel Soriano), an orphan volunteer who tried to help an orphaned little girl Angeli (Mika dela Cruz) because she claimed that somebody would like to take her away with them.

At first Claire is hesitant about the girl’s condition and she didn’t believe the little girl's claims because she thought that it’s just a part of her hallucinations and imaginations. Later, she concluded that it’s really true and these groups of mysterious people or the so called engkanto (enchanted beings) would like to get and take Angeli away. Some of them even pretended to be humans that are willing to help Claire and Angeli that made them confused of who really these people are and what are their motives for taking Angeli with them.

The revelations of the story behind the little girl has been cleared up in the later part when Claire discovered from an old woman Rita (Tetchie Agbayani) in the building that the Angeli should be taken by these strange people before she will reach 9 years old and another revealing discovery when Claire knew that the little girl’s mother is a family of enchanted beings or the engkantos who exists in another world and planning to take her back. Also, Rita’s daughter was taken by these enchanted beings and she would like to get her daughter back from them.

The story ended in the T2 floor where it looks like just a natural part of the old building but inside it is a paradise of engkantos. Rita helped Claire in fighting with them and destroying the place, the little girl decided not to go back with her mother who is a member of the enchanted beings and she chose go with Claire who already helped her from the start.

Shake, Rattle & Roll

Shake, Rattle & Roll is a Filipino horror film series which started way back in 1984. Currently it is produced by Regal Films. Most of the series are always noted as official entries for the Metro Manila Film Festival with the exception of the sixth installment which premiered in January 1997. The title is solely based on the song of the same name. This horror film franchise which is currently owned by Regal Films is known to be the only film series in the Philippines with the most movie installments. The first installment was released under the defunct Athena Productions while all the succeeding series are produced by Regal Entertainment. As of 2010, there are twelve installments of the movie series (with the latest being premiered in December 2010). - Wikipedia

The theme of the movie is mostly horror, thriller and suspense. It is divided into 3 parts for the 3 words in the title. That made the sequence still up until now. Way back in the 80's the movie features ancient scary creatures, beings and monsters. As the years passed some of the featured stories are evolving from old concepts to the modern ideas today.

As to this date the movie never misses a year that it became an entry in Manila Film Festival. The success of the movie is still evolving as new stars are featured in every sequence of the movie. Until now the movie still never misses to scare everyone in the movie house and theaters.

Bulong

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The movie is a pack of horror and comedy which makes it more interesting to watch. It talks about a morgue assistant who works in a hospital and assigned to the morgue to deliver cadavers. He has a love interest with a nurse and no matter how hard he try the nurse never liked him, that's because she also has an affair with a doctor inside the hospital.

Despaired feelings brought him to discover techniques to make that girl fall in love with him as a result his friend suggested that whispering your likes to dead people can make it come true. At first he failed because he can't find the right cadaver to whisper so he drink liquors desperately.

One night on the street she encountered an old woman and advised him to drink moderately, after few minutes the old woman was bumped by a car and dead on the spot so he take the chances of whispering to her and suddenly the surroundings is filled with strong winds and everything floats in seconds.

After that, on the next day he noticed that girls in the hospital cheers to him but the ghost of the old woman hunts him and delivers horrible effect to the persons around him. Later he discovered that the old woman was a retired witch and searching for her grand daughter to help her because in her witch days she was paid to curse a girl with rivalry in love and the discover that the rival of her client was her grand daughter.

So with the help of his friend they trace the old woman's grand daughter and save her from the curse with the use of holy water.

Interesting movie to watch and with lessons to learn as you go along watching the movie.

White Lady

White Lady is a 2006 pinoy horror movie that talks about Christina (Angelica Panganiban), who is in revenge as a white lady after being killed by her known friends in school. After her death many have experienced of a white lady sightings in school.

Many said that she is just around and finding her way for revenge. In school, a new student Pearl (Pauleen Luna) from the province came to study in the city. Her story has a resemblance with Christina’s which at first day of school meet new friends or pretending friends around and make friends with her. They even invited her in parties and gatherings since Pearl is known in the school as smart and talented. She always sings an Ilocano lullaby which Christina also did before she was killed.

Nearby her place she met an old woman named Lola Tasya (Boots Anson-Roa) who is Christina’s grandmother and she always says that after Christina’s friends make stupid things to her, she never get out of the house and always stays inside her room. This feeling is how her grandmother thinks even if Christina is already dead. Pearl’s known friends started to do foolish things that made her their enemy and always pretended that they are friends with her. She also met Robbie (J.C. de Vera) who is Christina’s ex-boyfriend and the one who’s responsible of her death. Pearl fell in love with him and they started to spend their days together. Some of Robbie’s friends died one by one because of the white lady’s revenge and everyone gets frightened and afraid that this will also happened to them knowing that they are all guilty.

Beyond that, things seems smooth with the two of them since Robbie always defended Pearl against his friends but when Robbie saw that Pearl is getting close with Jonathan (Gian Carlos), he get jealous and treated Pearl like what he did to Christina. He take Pearl in the back of the school in the utility room and attempted to burn her like what he did with Christina and now to Pearl together with Jonathan but they survived. The white lady also spends her time to avenge them all. On Robbie’s way home the white lady showed to her and tried to escape while on his way to a tower but the ghost of Christina showed him over and over again and pushed him to fall off the tower. This ends the revenge of the white lady and the ghost of Christina in peace.

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A nice and shocking horror movie of how revenge can be worth more than 10,000 times dangerous than what is originally done from her. White Lady is one of the most common horror characters of all time in Filipino folklore stories.