Film Review
Directed by Chito Rono
Characters:
- Seth- the one who helped her friends and brought them to faith healer.
- Cookie- his ex-husband’s daughter who also asked her the help of faith healer.
- Jed- Seth’s son. He was with Kim when they went to faith healer.
- Cita- mother of Cacai.
- Cacai- daughter of Cacai.
- Alma- a med tech graduate who could not go abroad because of her diabetes.
- Odong- the policeman.
- Ruben- husband of Greta who at first did not believe in faith healing.
- Greta- the woman who had swollen part of her in her breast.
- Chona- the girl who could not speak due to her swollen neck.
- Dario- the one who accidentally given new life by Manang Elsa. And the reason of curse
All she ever wanted was to help her friends, to remove their ill. She recommended faith healer. But, curse had started. Instead of life, it ended to death. This movie which directed by well-known Filipino horror director Chito S. Rono and screenplay written by .
The story is about the woman who brought her father into the faith healer. When they were about to go home something happened a man from a far.
As the story went, her father saved from the effect of stroke. And when their neighbors got knew about this. They asked her to help them too, Seth felt that they needed her help that was why one day she came along with them to the faith healer. Jed also asked help to her for his half-sister, Cookie.
During that day, Manang Elsa-the faith healer, was incapable to heal but Seth asked her to do this. Manang Elsa forced herself to heal.
Then after that, the cursed began. All of them saw a crow, which indicated that the curse was about to start, within their nightmare. And from that one by one they died for every time they saw doppelganger.
Positive Points
First, I give credits to Chito Rono and his writers for being the Filipino culture as the center of the movie, Faith healing and the fact that many Filipino believed in in it.
The film gives modern thrilling tactics to scream viewers.
While the character development and portrayal contributed well to the film. Also, it never forgets to add some function and symbolism to the film. First, it the Crow which played as the warning of death, then at the end of the story, it was fallen from the sky which symbolizes that the curse is over. Next, is the color symbol wherein red indicates the curse is still on their way while yellow means they are about to get free.
The film seems has the big amount of money because it gives them effects to add to the story.
Critiquing Points
Although, the film used to modern shots to thrill viewers, it seemed that this was not enough to terrify them. I agree that the film has the good story development but the approach of suspense action seemed not enough to terrify audience.
Next, it is good that Chito Rono left a trademark with his horror film as movies Healing and Feng shui has the same approach of film, I think it’s time for Chito Rono to have his trademark new and blend with his new idea to make his future films more thrilling and terrifying.
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