KISAPMATA was inspired by the true crime report “The House on Zapote Street”. “In The Wink of An Eye” as it would also be known as has been a staple favorite among budding cinephiles in the country. Considered as a classic of epic proportions not only because of the controversy
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Eeerie: Paved with good intentions
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” I am reminded of these lines in thinking of a throughline for the Mikhail Red-directed horror film Eerie. Storywise, the film delivers commentary on how our institutions and internalized preconceptions can be the barriers preventing us from helping those with mental
Kakabakaba Ka Ba?
This film could not have been made today, at least not without public backlash and definitely not by a major studio. This was my immediate reaction right after I saw the restored and remastered version of Mike De Leon’s Kakabakaba Ka Ba?, which was, in 1980, a last-ditch attempt at
Mike de Leon’s “Kakabakaba Ka Ba?” gets its well-deserved restoration, premieres Dec 9
After 35 years, Mike de Leon’s revered classic, Kakabakaba Ka Ba?, gets its well-deserved restoration with the help of ABS-CBN Film Restoration and the digitally re-mastery of L’Immagine Ritrovata. Leo Katigbak, head of the ABS-CBN Film Restoration and Archives (and who we can now officially call “The Father of Filipino Film Restoration“),
