Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Sukob [Top2]

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Film: Sukob
Genre: Horror


Sukob (titled The Wedding Curse internationally) is a 2006 Star Cinema film starring Kris Aquino and Claudine Barretto. The movie was directed by Chito Rono who Kris worked with in the 2004 hit horror film Feng Shui. Sukob is considered as the highest-grossing Filipino film of all-time earning PHP 186 million until in 2009 when You Changed My Life made 240.44 million pesos at the box office. The film's premise is based on a Filipino superstition in which one should not get married in the same year an immediate relative dies or is married or no siblings should be married within a year.

Plot summary

Sandy and Dale, both Overseas Workers in Dubai, are busy preparing for their wedding. Upon reaching her home, Sandy learns from her mother, Tessie, what happened to her friend, Helen. A short time after Helen's father died, Helen proceeded with her wedding. A few weeks after the wedding, Helen's husband dies in a plane crash. As Helen goes to the crash site, she dies in a bus accident. A few weeks later, Helen's mother suddenly disappears inside her house. Their bodies have never been recovered. Sandy proceeds with her own wedding. During the ceremony, she suffers from nosebleed and starts seeing glimpses of a ghostly flower girl. It turns out that she is not the only one who saw it. Joya, a psychic and the daughter of her husband's cousin, also saw the flower girl. Hours later, Sandy and Dale learn that the van carrying some of the secondary sponsors met an accident. When they get to the site, the bodies of the victims could not be found. Instead, they see a bridal cord. Sandy's relatives and friends disappear one by one. Things become more mysterious when Sandy receives their respective wedding photos. The people who died are headless in the photos. They realize that all the headless people in the photos are bound to die. Joya tells Sandy that she is cursed by the "sukob." Sandy is shocked - no one in her family has died recently, nor has anyone gotten married. In searching for the truth, Sandy unearths a dark family secret. Now, Sandy has to find a way to end the curse before it takes away all the people she holds dear.

Directed by Chito Rono
Starring Kris Aquino
Claudine Barretto
Wendell Ramos
Bernard Palanca
Maja Salvador
Boots Anson-Roa
Glaiza de Castro
Distributed by Star Cinema
Release date(s) 26 July 2006 (Philippines)
28 September 2006 (Singapore)
4 January 2007 (Malaysia)
Running time 100 min
Country Philippines
Language Tagalog,
Gross revenue PHP 186 Million

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

White Lady

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Film: White Lady
Genre: Horror | Suspense


White Lady is a horror and suspense film released in 2006 in Philippines. It is also directed by Jeff Tan. Principal photography of the film was done within the University of the Philippines Los Baños campus.

Synopsis

Set largely in the dark and eerie campus of the Arts Academy, White Lady’s story centers on Pearl (Pauleen Luna), a simple and smart girl from the province who has just arrived in the city to study, and the clique of students led by Mimi (Iwa Moto), a pretty, rich and popular girl who gets by through bullying others. Mimi’s minions include basketball jock Joshua (Jason Abalos), painter and Mimi wannabe Eva (Katarina Perez), film and photography major Jowee (Glaiza de Castro), and troublemaker and band frontman Hector (Ketchup Eusebio).

Pearl enrolls in the Arts Academy with her best friend and longtime buddy Jonathan (Gian Carlos), who has secretly harboured romantic feelings for her. Upon gaining admittance to the Academy, Mimi takes Pearl and Jonathan into her fold, befriending them in exchange for academic favors from the smart and studious Pearl. But Pearl sees right through her and rebuffs her; while Jonathan, on the other hand, is seduced and swayed by the glamorous “in” crowd. Soon after, Pearl and Jonathan's once close friendship becomes estranged.
For reasons she cannot explain nor understand, Pearl is haunted by the ghost of a white lady which has been rumored to have frequented the school grounds. Intrigued and determined to solve the mystery, she then decides to delve deeper into the lore of the white lady especially after learning about the story of Christina (Angelica Panganiban), a simple girl reportedly driven into hiding by Mimi’s pompousness. Pearl immediately feels an affinity towards Christina since both girls have been on the receiving end of Mimi’s mean pranks.
The haunting worsens when Pearl lands the highly-coveted lead role in the school play, which also earns her the brunt of Mimi’s ire since Mimi had wanted the role for herself. On top of everything else, a burgeoning relationship begins to kindle between Pearl and Robbie (JC de Vera)- the rich, athletic and most popular guy in school, whom Mimi also desires.
In a series of intense ghostly appearances, the white lady manifests herself to the “in” group, letting them experience her wrath one by one and Pearl is caught in the middle of it all. In the end, she and her schoolmates will discover the deathly horrifying secret that binds them to the terror of Arts Academy that is the The White Lady.

Directed by Jeff Tan
Produced by Roselle Monteverde-Teo
Written by Joel Rufino A. Nunez & Don Michael Perez
Starring Angelica Panganiban
Pauleene Luna
JC De Vera
Iwa Moto
Jason Abalos
Glaiza De Castro
Music by Von De Guzman
Distributed by Regal Films
Release date(s) July 19, 2006
Running time 107 mins
Language Tagalog, English, and Illongo

source: wikipedia

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