This movie caught my eye on the shelf with it's impressive sounding reviews printed on the front. Words such as, "original", "gory", and, "shocking". As the movie plays on, these things turn out to be at least slightly true. Parts of the movie seem to be mildly reminiscent of, "Rosemary's Baby", "Friday the 13th", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", and Lucio Fulci's "House by the Cemetery". Even if sometimes only in directing style. Plus much like Coscarelli's "Phantasm", things get just a little stranger continuously as it unfolds. I did have a good idea of what was coming next a lot of the time. HOWEVER, the minor details in between my kind of knowing what was going to happen made it worth waiting to see exactly how it would turn out. The special effects were good enough for a bizarre little tale of horror on film. People complain too much about that kind of thing in most instances. There is an in between area on the excellent to awful spectrum that this film fits into nicely in that department. Go ahead and check it out if you like to see something just that tiny un-explainably bit different than everything else. At least you already know it HAS to be better than "House of the Dead", right?
Review of Aswang
