Peque Gallaga is a stalwart of Philippine cinema, but he’s also touched a lot of random people such as myself along the way.
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Trying to write fiction again
I’m trying to write fiction again. This is harder than it sounds.
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Ilawod Gets R13 Rating
Ilawod gets an R13 rating from the MTRCB.
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Ilawod: How Our Monster Got Its Name
A lot of people have been asking about the title of the movie. Why Ilawod? What does it mean? How did you guys come about it? This post will answer that question. When director Dan Villegas and I brainstormed on what was to become Ilawod, we had no idea that we were going to create […]
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Ilawod: How a Horror Film Happened
Over the next few days, I will be writing more about how the movie got made. Meanwhile, enjoy the trailer, and don’t forget to watch Ilawod when it opens in theaters nationwide on January 18, 2017.
Read morePhilippine Urban Legends: The Stories that Grow from a Mix of Animism, Technology, and the Scars of Dictatorship
Mention the Philippines and most people think of weird food (fertilized duck egg, anyone?) and beautiful beaches. But stick around long enough, and you’ll find that (sometimes literally) beneath the country’s modern malls and mysterious mountains runs a lower mythological tradition so rich, its moved from the forest to the cities, morphing from myths to […]
Read moreAtrocities in Everyday Life
What is horror? Go past the monsters, the serial killers, the scary clowns. Go past the books, the TV shows, the movies. Go past the make believe. What is horror in the here and now? In history? What is horror in real life?
Read moreInterview: Igan d’Bayan
Writer and artist Igan d’Bayan has been unsettling folks through his art for some time now. His paintings come in different sizes (some larger than life) and tackle different topics, but the one thing that they have in common is that they are mighty spooky. Igan is currently painting a series of inverted crosses. “No, […]
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You’ll never believe the scariest place Ray Garton has been to is
Ray Garton is an American author whose horror stories have been scaring the pants off readers since 1984. His stories are genuinely frightening (I remember having to read The Loveliest Dead all the way through because if I didn’t, the ghosts would get me) and he’s one of the few who can take a worn […]
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National artist Eddie Romero has never seen a ghost
If you don’t know who Eddie Romero is, look him up here. I love this man. He directed one of my favorite Filipino movies, and of course, he directed a lot of B Movies in the 70s, has been featured in Pete Tomb’s Mondo Macabro and has been cited as one of Quentin Tarantino’s cinematic […]
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