MALLARI

I went to see this today, an All Day Bargain Tuesday, at the Century 14 Vallejo, here in Vallejo, CA. The price of admission was $6.50. I brought with me a 20 oz ( 591 ml ) bottle of iced Dasani Water, a stick of Pure Kick Zero Sugar Strawberry Watermelon Hydrate to flavor my water, a Weight Watcher's Fiber One Peanut Butter Cocoa Crumble protein bar and ⅓ cup of low sodium Mixed Nuts. 

Synopsis: In the early 1800's, a young parish priest becomes the first Philippine serial killer. Believing that his mother's unexplainable sudden illness is the result of a mangkukolam ( witch ) putting a hex on her, the priest is compelled to kill at least 57 people; in the hope of finding the cure for his mother's illness. 

R-13, 2h & 9m

Auditorium 4, B-9

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Scene Commentaries:

This is the first time that I come across an R-13 movie rating! 😐

This movie hits below the belt when an elder priest tells the doctor that a seminarian ran off with an altar boy! 😁

It's interesting to hear the elder priest think of the killer priest as some kind of a vigilante serial killer. 

Traditionally speaking, artwork for St. Bartholomew depict him holding a knife 🗡️, not a sword.

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The word Aswang ( ghost ) is also used to describe other evil entities like vampires and Manananggal ( a bat-like humanoid that detaches itself from its lower body at the waist to achieve flight as it searches for prey ). A manananggal is not real UNTIL IT BECOMES REAL AS SOON AS YOU ENCOUNTER ONE FOR YOURSELF❗😬❗ Like I Did As A 10-year old boy living in Barrio Matina, Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines! It was stalking me!!! I believe that I already wrote about this many years ago. 🤔

An artist's depiction of

a manananggal. 

And in the late '90s or in the early '00s, a supermarket tabloid here in California printed an article about a manananggal sighting in the town of Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippines. There were a number of people who witnessed it! A Vietnamese co-worker of mine also said that they have similar night creatures in Vietnam. And there's even an account of it as told by a Vietnam war vet in a book about supernatural encounters.

I really thought that this racist song was a fake:

👉 https://youtu.be/d6pMZ71LAic?si=4pRHmE0ENTfjLUZc

Heck, even Beaver Cleaver sang it! I'll have to look for Beaver's rendition. 🔎

Yeah, this movie mentions the Hukbalahap to explain some of the atrocities that happened in World War 2 Luzon. I wouldn't doubt it. But, more than likely though, the victims were possibly the Japanese soldiers and their collaborators.

His Hawaiian wife sure speaks English with a hint of a Pinoy accent. 😏

Okay, I'm gonna have to Spoiler Alert this movie here! If the possessed needs to have a serving of human entrails every now and then, How Was The Evil Guy Able To Satisfy Its Craving For Entrails While Buried 6 Feet 🪦 Under❗🤷‍♂️❗🤷‍♂️❗And why were its nose 👃 and eyes 👀 not wedged with dirt❓🤦‍♂️❓🤦‍♂️❓

Tidbits:

Gloria Diaz is a 2nd cousin of mine from my mother's maternal side of the family! My mother told me that Gloria, as a little girl, and her mom would always visit with my mother's family at their farm house in Bicol ( Sorsogon ), Philippines.

I actually planned to see this movie and the GomBurZa movie on Monday. But a business call that I waited to get never happened. So I had to reschedule the movie trip for today AFTER I realized that the call which I expected to receive in the morning would be scheduled in the afternoon, instead! It left me with no possibility of seeing the 3 Bollywood movies playing for only this week in a limited engagement. Well, you see some; you miss some ( to paraphrase a famous expression ).  🙁

Note:

The result of the 24-Hour Le Cine-Man's race will be posted along with my blog on GomBurZa! 

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