A psychic investigator from the TV, a gay dance instructor and a family
man suffering from a nagging wife find abode in an allegedly haunted
house, each with his entourage. Soon, all kinds of spooky things happen,
and eventually our three heroes find out it's the former owners of the
house who now haunt the mansion. However, the ghosts of these two don't do
anything really evil, they just appear and scare everyone shitless. And
then the light goes out and a murder happens, then another one. These
cannot be blamed on the ghosts however but something entirely more
physical - a madman with an ax. Soon, our three heroes find themselves on
the run from the madman and run into the corpses of the ghosts, who have
actually been killed by the very same madman years back. The discovery of
their corpses gives the ghosts enough strength to appear in front of the
madman and scare him in a way that he falls down a staircase to his death
... You might not have noticed it from my synopsis, but this
film is supposed to be a spoof - and in a larger context, a horror spoof
from the Philippines makes perfect sense and actually sounds quite
interesting, since over the course of the 1960's and 70's, some of the
wilder, weirder drive-in shockers came from the Philippines. But if you're
looking for a decent Filipino horror-parody, this is not it, it's just a
lame and pointless stroll through mainly Western horror clichés that
often have no relation to one another, and any narrative stringency is
thrown out of the window for a bunch of bad jokes ever so often. On top of
that, the film's pacing is just not there, both in terms of comedy and
tension and suspense, the leads are uniformly unfunny, which they try to
hide behind silly grimaces, and the humour that drives the film is of a
decidedly unsubtle, disappointingly stupid kind. Better stay away from
this one.
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