A Filipino Manananggal in New York
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Gushing support, withering discouragement, donations of $100,000 (PayPal link on your upper left), threats to sue, we take it all. Although, if you are in the tristate area and would like to get involved in front of or behind the camera, we'd love to hear it.
February 2007 Status: Preproduction Casting Logistics Filming Editing
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The first Filipino horror movie filmed in the United States.
Ummm...
OK, the second Filipino horror movie filmed in the United States... that we know of :-P
The first, we are certain, to center around the legend of the manananggal
English/ Visayan/ Tagalog, ~90 Minutes, Low Budget, Indie, HDV
Filming in East Midtown Manhattan/ Beacon, NY/ Wayne, NJ
artist credit: Dion Fernandez
Jericho, the passive aggressive bereaved, given a ticket to hell
Ina, the dead girlfriend, a vision of the past/ a cursed falsehood today
Bong, the tough love friend, lays the smack down, gets smacked down
Francine, the loyal friend, falls victim to a nasty surprise
Inspirations:
Eine Symphonie des Grauens Nosferatu, 1922, F.W. Murnau
Metropolis, 1927, Fritz Lang
Vertigo, 1958, Alfred Hitchcock
La Noche del terror ciego, 1971, Amando de Ossorio
The Exorcist, 1973, William Friedkin
Altered States, 1980, Ken Russell
The Changeling, 1980, Peter Medak
The Shining, 1980, Stanley Kubrick
An American Werewolf in London, 1981, John Landis
The Thing, 1982, John Carpenter
Electric Dreams, 1984, Steve Barron
Little Shop of Horrors, 1986, Frank Oz
Angel Heart, 1987, Alan Parker
The Lost Boys, 1987, Joel Schumacher
The Serpent and the Rainbow, 1988, Wes Craven
Jacob's Ladder, 1990, Adrian Lyne
Candyman, 1992, Bernard Rose
El Mariachi, 1992, Robert Rodriguez
The Pillow Book, 1996, Peter Greenaway
Beloved, 1998, Jonathan Demme
Fallen, 1998, Gregory Hoblit
Pi, 1998, Darren Aronofsky
Ringu, 1998, Hideo Nakata
Ôdishon, 1999, Takashi Miike
The Sixth Sense, 1999, M. Night Shyamalan
Tomie, 1999, Ataru Oikawa
The Blair Witch Project, 1999, Daniel Myrick/ Eduardo Sánchez
What Lies Beneath, 2000, Robert Zemeckis
El Espinazo del Diablo, 2001, Guillermo del Toro
The Others, 2001, Alejandro Amenábar
Gin Gwai, 2002, Oxide & Danny Pang
The Mothman Prophecies, 2002, Mark Pellington