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Questions and a short review. Spoilers

posted 12 years ago by aznfx
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Were the 2 girls in the 1st story (2008) sisters or cousins? Thinking about it now, I'm leaning towards cousins, but now I'm wondering how I got the idea they were sisters.

Also, when the cop's partner left the house and said he checked all the rooms, what are we thinking happened here? What's going through his head? It's never revisited and I suspect it's just to throw the viewers off.

Anyway, I thought the movie was good. I give it a 6.5/10. I keep thinking about how a movie from my home country actually made it into theaters stateside. I suppose I'm not being very fair considering the only Filipino movies I've seen prior were Service (Serbis) and Cavite -- I didn't particularly like either.

The review here (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2063008/board/flat/191782143) is actually very accurate. My only gripe was that though the 1988 and 1998 stories fit together nicely, the 2008 story felt out of place. Are ghosts perhaps a part of Filipino culture I'm not quire aware of?

The overall movie had a similar vibe to Fraitly. Both are completely different stories and structures, but both had twist endings, back stories, and supernatural aspects.

[–] GeneticSugarKane 12 years ago

The two girls in the 2008 segment were either cousins or very close friends/neighbors from early childhood. I say this because the first girl called the second girl's mother "auntie." Sometimes a child will call a woman who is close to their family "auntie" even if that woman is not actually related. The two girls were definitely not sisters though. The impression was given that they were both the only child of their respective households.

In the second story it is made clear that the cop with the facial hair (Greg I believe was his name) overlooked the padlocked room in which the girl was being kept. Perhaps it was meant to throw suspicion on him or simply show that he was not a competent officer of the law unlike our "hero" who eventually finds the girl cowering in a corner.

I loved this film. I thought it managed to be scary and unique even though it clearly borrowed from Japanese and South Korean horror. So glad it made its way into theaters here in the States.

They mostly meet me at the waterfront after the social... mostly.