How
do you deal with three angry aswangs? Fight fire with fire—that's how. In the
horror film Patient X, the character of Richard Gutierrez will have to
deal with the creatures through the help of another aswang, portrayed by
Cristine Reyes.
Patient X reunites director Yam Laranas with his Sigaw star Richard Gutierrez, who
not only stars in this horror film but also serves as the co-producer. This
joint project of GMA Films & Viva Films, in association with Rgutz
Productions, will open in cinemas starting October 28, in time for Halloween.
Heart Evangelista was supposed to be
the leading lady of this film but she had surgery for her appendix at
the time.
Yam made history as the first Filipino director to make a Hollywood film (Sigaw)
and a National Geographic feature titled Asia's Titanic. Sigaw was
remade in Hollywood as The Echo, with Jesse Bradford reprising the role
of Richard. DVDs of The Echo will be available in the United States this
November.
What can Richard say about being a
first-time producer in this project? "I trust Direk Yam's work. At nakikita ko
naman yung hardwork na kino-commit niya sa project."
On his role as a doctor in this horror film, Richard says, "Exciting siya, exciting yung character. Challenging para sa ‘kin yung part, so
very exciting."
Yam describes his film as a "creature feature" because of the presence of aswangs, the vampire-like
creatures in Filipino folk lore.
"Masaya kami na trailer pa lang, gumagawa na ng buzz sa online community. From Los Angeles to New York to Brussels, excited na sila. Ang usual comment nila'y 'unique scare.' Inaabangan na nila yung movie," says the filmmaker.
"Tumawag na rin ang programming ng Screamfest, kaya lang, nasa gitna na ako ng discussion with a U.S. company, a releasing agent. Let's see kung ano ang mangyayari."Yam says that Patient X has already been invited to the 2009 Screamfest, which will take place this October in Los Angeles. But they passed up the invitation since they are hoping that film will make the cut in the Sundance Film Festival that will run from January 21 to January 31, 2010.
Patient X also stars Miriam Quiambao, TJ Trinidad, Che Ramos (who was last seen in the Cinemalaya entry Mangatyanan), Paolo Avelino, Dion Ignacio, and theater actor Nanding Josef. Richard's brothers, Rocky and Elvis Gutierrez, are also cast as aswangs along with Dion Ignacio.
SYNOPSIS. Lukas Esguerra (Richard Gutierrez) is a city pediatric surgeon haunted by the massacre of his family in the province when he was young. Lukas witnessed his older brother and his parents murdered by men who tapped their maid Guada (Cristine Reyes) as an accomplice. Guada and her cohorts fled and were never seen again.
Years later, one of the provincial cops visits Lukas and tells him that Guada was recently captured. The young man goes back to the province to face his family's killer.
He is stunned when he meets Guada again who has not aged a single day since he last saw her. Lukas soon finds out that Guada is an aswang who was captured during the massacre of another family. The victims were the wife and son of the town's chief of police, Alfred (TJ Trinidad), who now wants to exact revenge for what happened.
That fateful night reconnects Lukas to his past. Guada attempts to shed light on what happened 20 years ago, while Guada's three brothers, all aswangs, prepare to rescue their sister.
Trapped inside the hospital, Lukas has no choice but to trust Guada if he wants to survive the rampage of the aswangs.




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44 swiss
43 creamer
still, i hate to say this dahil like ko si direk, pero i'm hoping magflop para matuto na yang si richard na naopakayabang. suportahan na lang ang mga pirated dvds sa sure na maglalabasan. hihihi.
42 marcleztat
41 swiss
40 asus
39 asus
38 datuputi
37 unika
36 ibaoiram
35 kapusoglobal
oct 30 pala kasi oct 28 ang showing
hehehe
34 kapusoglobal
good luck sacast and crew.
congrats in advance
33 gecko
32 cinelamour
sigaw in fact is one of the good aside from panaghoy sa suba that came out in that stupid mmff which includes the incompetent joel lamangan films' aishite imasu and mano po iii my love and the story-less-lines of enteng kabisote
31 cinelamour
whoever the producer or actors of this film are, it is still YAM LARANAS!
30 mixandmatch
walang manonood niyan dahil ina niya si bisaya..
29 143brent
basta ako go go go kapuso...
alam nating tayo ang number 1
28 blitz23
panoorin ny yung movie ni leonardo di carpio
27 gelay63
26 humanright
I rather watch Hollywood horror movies.
25 swiss
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