When Erik Matti isn’t busy making films about swindlers, he continues to explore Filipino vampirism. This time, he fills the shoes of a producer to director Borgy Torre’s new film Resureksyon, a vampire thriller starring Jasmine Curtis-Smith and Isabelle Daza. Paulo Avelino stars too, as a detective who investigates a freak
Tag: Richard Somes
Liwanag sa Dilim
Richard Somes’s Liwanag sa Dilim enacts a battle between good and evil, the timeless adventure of friends joined in defeating a villainous being, tykes assembled in lieu of the common task of slaying the monster under the bed. And although the film is elusive to the delineation as a children’s
Gemini
The oversimplified definition of film noirs has long been reduced to stories of extreme cynicism and ambivalence, a test, if you will, in perception of the truth. Naturally, my main attraction with Ato Bautista’s neurotic thriller Gemini roots from the film noirs repetitively played (but with different sets of actors)
