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Trese should have our own version of ghosts and ghouls stirring in their graves
FILIPINO MYTHOS REPRESENTATION Trese art from the comic book
It’s a mystery that we have not made quite a global export industry of Philippine horror. Stretching the franchise
Shake, Rattle, & Roll to 15 installments, each with three stories that range from ghosts to ghouls, has not done much to showcase our knack for the macabre and the supernatural in world cinema, where mostly on account of our portrayal of poverty we have amassed award after award after award at various film festivals, from Cannes to Berlin to Osaka.
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I CONFESS to being biased against Pio de Castro III’s Soltero ever since I heard the premise. A Filipino film about loneliness? Filipinos are some of the most gregarious people in the world the warmest, friendliest, most hospitable; the (darker side) fondest of gossip, of backbiting, of mob rule. Filipinos, I’d have said, are the least likely to know loneliness, particularly on the big screen; most Philippine cinema depict teeming slums full of corrugated shacks crammed with squatters. Filipinos know the despair of overcrowding, not loneliness.
But that’s not entirely true; one of Brocka’s best-known films (