Mang Kepweng Returns (2017)

Mang Kepweng Returns is a 2017 pinoy horror comedy movie starring Vhong Navarro as Kiefer whom his nickname is derived from his father the original Mang Kepweng.

This movie is a remake of the 1979 film originally starred by the late comedian actor Chiquito.

Kiefer is a hardworking guy despite the strange things that is repeatedly happening to him. He usually see ghost wherever he goes – at work or home. With these instances, he still survived the daily routine in his life.

His mother, Aling Milagros (Jacklyn Jose) has been secretive about Kiefer’s origin especially about his father. Besides the circumstances, she already knew that the strange things that Kiefer saw are part of his destiny. When she had finally decided on letting Kiefer know his roots, they went to the province to see Zach (James Blanco), his step brother of the same father.

Later, he discovered that he is the destined one to use the magical handkerchief which is an inheritance from his father. The handkerchief contains unexplained power that could heal diseases and fight bad elements. The fairies also oriented him about the power of the handkerchief and handed him the book of knowledge that could help him in healing and fighting bad elements.

When he started to wear the handkerchief to his head, it indicates the return of Mang Kepweng, the great healer (albularyo). He first healed Zach’s wife who was possessed by the witch.

This incident alerted the witch and immediately sent his allies to spy on Kiefer. He wanted to know if it’s really true that Mang Kepweng had returned and was later confirmed. Kiefer’s friends also came to visit him and later decided to stay. Kiefer also met Allysa (Kim Domingo) which at first he has no interest but later fell in love with her.

The witch started to send someone to seduce Kepweng but did not succeed. With such despair, he sent some food which poisoned Allysa that serves as his puppet to kill Kiefer.

With this, Kiefer faced the bad healer witch and almost got defeated but with the help of his father’s spirit and the prayers from her mother, he had survived and killed the witch.

Halik sa Hangin (2015)

Halik Sa Hangin is a 2015 pinoy horror movie starring Julia Montes (Mia), Gerald Anderson (Gio), and JC de Vera (Alvin). This is a movie about a haunted love that caused a young woman’s life and the people around her to be in danger. Halik Sa Hangin literally means in English as “kiss to the wind” which also imply kissing to nothing.

The movie started when Mia was brought to Baguio along with her family by her stepfather to start a new life after his father died falling off the bridge. She is still in grave sadness remembering her childhood with her father.

At school, since she is still new, she encountered many instances of bullying and taught herself to overcome those. Aside from these incidents, Mia met someone who captured her attention. It’s Gio, a loner-type guy and a music lover. Together they shared experiences about life which they both discovered that they have similarities in some of it.

Mia also learned that the cause of Gio’s sadness is Quinn, the woman that she loved before and who broke his heart.

After spending few days together, they fell in love with each other as Gio taught her on how to play the new guitar bought by Mia. They spend most the time on the tourist spots in Baguio. Another instance happened when the bully school mates of Mia tried to disturb her but Gio came to the rescue which brought fear to them.

Later, Mia’s friends and family approached her about an incident that resulted to the death of her bully school mate. They confronted her that it was Mia’s cutter that was found in the victim’s place. She insisted that she has nothing to do with it since she was only spending time with her boyfriend Gio.

That’s the time she discovered that her boyfriend was indeed already dead and does not exist as how Mia described, and actually a ghost that fell in love with her. With this, she confronted Gio and there she had proved that that Gio together with his family were already dead. She also learned that Gio was responsible in the death of her bully school mate because he doesn’t want someone to hurt Mia.

Quinn also confessed that the cause of her isolation was Gio. He killed Quinn’s family when Quinn refuses to go with him as her dead boyfriend.

This led her to avoid Gio but he threatened Mia’s family and their lives in danger. Alvin who is also interested in Mia tried to rescue her from Gio that endangered his life.

The horror was only ended when Mia decided to jumped to a hole to save Alvin and her family. This is the time the rage of Gio was ended when she saved Mia from falling off because he loves him. The dead’s love remained the savior of Mia’s and her family’s lives.

Elemento (2016)

Elemento is a 2016 pinoy psychology horror movie about parenting and possessions. The movie stars Cristine Reyes as Cara and his son Albert Silos as Lucas. In Kara's childhood she always dreamed about wandering and running around the forest. Even if she already had a son, these dreams always come back to her. She also consulted a doctor to assess her dreams that kept on repeating every time she fell asleep.

As a single parent, Kara ensured that she can give good future to her son that’s why she worked hard. There are also times that she cannot spend quality time to her son due to her work as a real estate broker. Lucas’s father (Jake Cuenca) also cannot spend time on him because he has another girlfriend.

The horror started when Lucas goes to a school field trip and when got back Kara noticed some differences on him. Lucas usually complains when his mother will call him baby but this time he did not do it so Kara find this unusual. This time Lucas shows unusual behaviour like beating his bully classmate badly. His sweetness is also gone.

After noticing this behavior, their neighbor (Elizabeth Oropesa) also told Kara that the kid inside his house is not Lucas but a creature called “Tambal” which is an identical copy of his son. This happened when Lucas accidentally got lost in the forest during their field trip. The Tambal copied his looks and joined again to his classmates and got home. The real Lucas is actually still inside the forest wandering. An incident proved this claim when Lucas called Kara using his phone asking for help because he’s lost the forest.

Kara went back to the forest to rescue Lucas along with her gay friend and there she met and old folk that actually saved Lucas from being lost. But instead of letting Kara take her son, they captured her and let her son get out the forest. It was later discovered that the folks there are also Tambal creatures and Kara is actually one of them when she got lost in the forest in her childhood. The one who got the forest as Kara was actually a Tambal and the folks are no happy when she came back.

Elemento (2016)

Elemento is a 2016 pinoy psychology horror movie about parenting and possessions. The movie stars Cristine Reyes as Cara and his son Albert Silos as Lucas. In Kara's childhood she always dreamed about wandering and running around the forest. Even if she already had a son, these dreams always come back to her. She also consulted a doctor to assess her dreams that kept on repeating every time she fell asleep.

As a single parent, Kara ensured that she can give good future to her son that’s why she worked hard. There are also times that she cannot spend quality time to her son due to her work as a real estate broker. Lucas’s father (Jake Cuenca) also cannot spend time on him because he has another girlfriend.

The horror started when Lucas goes to a school field trip and when got back Kara noticed some differences on him. Lucas usually complains when his mother will call him baby but this time he did not do it so Kara find this unusual. This time Lucas shows unusual behaviour like beating his bully classmate badly. His sweetness is also gone.

After noticing this behavior, their neighbor (Elizabeth Oropesa) also told Kara that the kid inside his house is not Lucas but a creature called “Tambal” which is an identical copy of his son. This happened when Lucas accidentally got lost in the forest during their field trip. The Tambal copied his looks and joined again to his classmates and got home. The real Lucas is actually still inside the forest wandering. An incident proved this claim when Lucas called Kara using his phone asking for help because he’s lost the forest.

Kara went back to the forest to rescue Lucas along with her gay friend and there she met and old folk that actually saved Lucas from being lost. But instead of letting Kara take her son, they captured her and let her son get out the forest. It was later discovered that the folks there are also Tambal creatures and Kara is actually one of them when she got lost in the forest in her childhood. The one who got the forest as Kara was actually a Tambal and the folks are no happy when she came back.

Wang Fam (2015)

Wang Fam is a 2015 pinoy horror comedy movie starring the Aswang family Pokwang (Malou Wang), Benjie Paras (Boo Wang),  Andre Paras (Duke Wang), Abby Bautista (Kala Wang) and Alonzo Muhlach (Vey Wang).

This is a movie about a family of Aswang which chooses to live among humans without eating them.

The story started when Malou was scheduled to be offered to her elder Aswang queen. The queen wanted to use her body while she was still virgin as part of the Aswang prophecy. However, she fell in love to botanist Boo who was camping at their territory to do experiments on plants that could possible cure diseases. The two decided to secretly get married to avoid being used by the queen during body transfer.

During the ceremony in transferring the spirit of the queen to Malou’s body, his brother Jokjok (Wendell Ramos) wondered why it took more than four hours and the ritual was unsuccessful. Later, one of the elder Aswang revealed that Malou was already not a virgin that caused the ritual to fail. 

Boo rescued her and was also converted into Aswang after Malou bit him to fight evenly with the Aswang clan who tried to hurt them.

When the two escaped, they started a family and got three children Duke, Kala and Vey. They didn’t live their lives normally as they kept on transferring places to avoid being revealed as Aswangs. They later decided to transfer to Manila to live in Boo’s parents’ mansion.

When the family came, someone saw their forms as monsters and tried to tell it to everybody.  The neighbors tried to mock and tag them as Aswang but they always find a way to deny it to everybody despite their pale skin color. Duke also fell in love with their neighbor’s daughter. The children went to school as normal after Boo discovered an antidote to prevent the sun from burning them.

After few months, many were murdered within their place which was done by Malou’s brother Jokjok and his gang. The three monsters also lived in the boarding house of Wang family’s neighbor where they pretended to be call center agents who only go out by night.

Wang children discovered this and told their parents. Jokjok abducted Duke’s girlfriend in exchange for Kala who will be the replacement of Malou for the sacrifice as the eclipse is coming. With this, the family revealed their true identity to the neighbors and promised to help them save the kidnapped boarders.

Wang family saved them using holy water and their own strength as Aswang and they’ve defeated Jokjok and the other members of the clan. Vey also showed his might as a werewolf which ended the war against the Aswang clan.

Kulimlim (2004)

Kulimlim is a 2004 pinoy suspense movie starring Robin Padilla (Jake) and Tanya Garcia (Hannah). Kulimlim is a Filipino term for nightfall.

The movie talks about a loving father who is willing to do everything to protect his family but suddenly turn the other way around.

His family has a horrible past when Hannah was raped by three persons. The three were sent to jail after they were captured; however, they were released after few years in jail. With this, Jake sent his family to a far place where there is no communication to avoid the three suspects from getting back to them. He asked his uncle, a retired police officer to help him eliminate the three.

Upon releasing, the three suspects were taken by Jake uncle’s men and they were killed. This is where the story started when the spirits of the three suspects haunted and possessed Jake. All the attitude and gestures of the suspects get inside Jake’s body. Jake committed an accident way back home and this changed him. He came back home with a different personality and started to look for his son and disregarded his daughter.

Days go by and the incident changed him a lot. He started to hurt his daughter and his wife and only cared about his son. The kid was the result of the crime committed by the three suspects before. The demonic possession got worse and Jake started to teach his son about holding a gun and also about killing someone. In fact, one of their caretaker was killed when his son was possessed by demonic spirits.

Because of this, Hannah tried to protect her daughter and tried to save her son from her possessed husband. Hannah attempted to escape but was always caught by Jake. She tried to fight Jake and this led her daughter to escape and seek help from the neighbors.

After attempting to escape again, Hannah had almost got away but Jake chased her and her son. To stop Jake, she stabbed him with the metal cross that was given to her to protect her from any harm. Jake died before the police and the neighbors came to rescue them. They have stopped the danger but it seems not the end since her son was also possessed. 

Haunted Mansion (2015)

Haunted Mansion is a 2015 pinoy horror movie and an official entry to MMFF 2015. The movie stars Janella Salvador as Ella and few of the hottest young talents today.

This is a movie about the haunting of a black lady witch.

Ella in her childhood is weird since she possessed a third eye that can see all kinds of spirits. She even talked to her grandmother’s spirit few hours after she died. Her parents won’t believe her at first but after they have confirmed that indeed she could talk to the spirits or ghosts of the dead, they’ve keep it as secret but she was also the reason why her father died after calling her uncle’s spirit.

After her father died, she kept telling her younger brother and sister about the happy moments with her father when he was still alive.

At school, she’s been bullied by her classmates due to her being weird but she ignored it all the time. Ella also happens to have two suitors whom later became complicated because one is her friend Adrian (Marlo Mortel) who is secretly attracted to her and the other one is Jacob (Jerome Ponce) who was previously courting Megan (Ingrid Dela Paz) but always get neglected as part of Megan’s trick. This made Megan mad at her since Jacob was already started to be attracted to her.   

As part of their retreat, the students were taken to an old mansion which was already known for being horrible and mysterious due to different rumors about crying lady and black lady. They have been warned not to touch anything inside the mansion as they might disturb the spirits. At first, the student obeyed the rules but later they started to scare the others by wearing horrible masks and chasing the others.

This incident got the guys in trouble since Ella was scared by one of Jacob’s friends and Adrian defended her from them. The fight started but later stopped by Father Anthony (Dominic Ochoa) and Miss Gonzales (Janice de Belen) as their guardians in the retreat. But this was not the end of the guys’ play; they later tried to put a celfone inside the confessional room to record the black lady’s confession as what the rumors say.

The horrible thing happened when the phone successfully recorded the black lady’s confession. With this, anyone who heard the confession will eventually die in minutes after the burned man and evil black lady shows up and cut everyone’s tongue. After Miss Gonzales and Faye (Sharlene San Pedro) died, they discovered that the evil black lady who is killing every one of them is not Veronica (LJ Reyes) as the rumored black lady in the confessional room but indeed Amara (Iza Calzado). Amara did not want everyone to know that she was responsible of Jaime’s (Joem Bascon) death, the boyfriend of Veronica. The death of Veronica was due to sorrow because of what Amara did, the reason she committed suicide after confessing the incident few years ago.

Since Ella can talk to spirits, she tried to talk to Veronica and Jaime in the spirit world and was informed to destroy or burn Amara’s remains to stop her from killing them all. Only Ella was left after Amara’s rage but she had managed to burn her partially. Ella was hospitalized and later taken home to rest since she also suffered amnesia due to the incident in the mansion.

However, after three months when her memory gets back, Amara also get back to her and nearly killed her since she had already risen from the dead but Ella again managed to take the rosary and placed on Amara. This burned her fully to ashes and Ella lived.