The Bush

33.15 min, Thailand, 2019, Thai (With English subtitles)

A bridal couple come to a strange forest to shoot their romantic pre-wedding video with a crew of 5. But unknown to them, the forest is home to an unknown tribe of…cannibals? The body count is high, the bloodletting is gory & efficient. (Alice Skinhead)

Trailer : https://youtu.be/syITsKt3Kj8

Laplae 2549

35 min, Thailand, 2019, Thai (With English subtitle)

An interwoven story set in a small suburb of Pattaya where a middle-aged woman puts on a play in an abandoned movie theatre, a girl dreams of her father from a past life & the boys are roaming around playing in the ruins of their town.

Slightly slow to start but builds into something eerie & magical through mesmerizing images. (Alice Skinhead)

Trailer : https://vimeo.com/344363815

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Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings

(Patayin sa Shokot si Remington)

96min | Philippines | 2011  | Tagalog with English Subtitles

Gay zombies, a childhood curse, kick-arse lady cops and homophobic serial killers armed with a lethal gaydar zapper–what a joy is ‘Zombading’. Not very scary but ridiculously enjoyable. (Alice Skinhead)

Remington is in love with Hannah but she finds him lazy and uncouth. Then he starts to change. Suddenly he is becoming neater, nicer, more sensitive. Is he doing it for her? Or is something beyond his control changing him into someone he is not?

He discovers that his gradual transformation is tied to something he did long ago, to childhood transgressions and curses uttered in graveyards. Hannah falls for the new and improved Remington. But he starts falling for someone else – a man.

As the ghosts of Remington’s past come to haunt him, so do the Zombadings. Undead and fabulous, they threaten to rock this sleepy town to death.

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Ngilngig Asian Fantastic Film Festival Davao is an annual showcase of films that explores the myriad meanings of the “ngilngig”—a common Bisaya expression for something that is “kuyaw” (fantastic) or for something that elicits horror or alluding to the macabre.

From what used to be a horror-genre festival, Ngilngig Festival has expanded its scope to become the first fantastic film festival of its kind in Southeast Asia, extending the reach to other neighboring countries’ “ngilngig” and fantastic films that are significant with our own ways of telling stories to promote and preserve our myths, traditions, history and culture into cinematic form.

Line-up / 106 min.

SIN-O ANG TIKTIK? by TM Malones
ANG PAG-ABO by Emmylou Layo, Marga Mangao, Jirah Palma, Pio Sto. Domingo, and Kenneth Paul Senarillos GARBAGE BAG by Bagane Fiola
PANABI by Maki Cabrera
THE CAMERA by Bagane Fiola
DRIMSIKOL byTyl Abellaneda
ACHUP BOULEVARD by Bagane Fiola
CONSEQUENCES OF MAN by Jeffrie Po
WALAY NIDANGUYNGUY by Glorypearl Dy
BUROS SI LUCIA JOAQUIN NGA ANAK NI MARIA LABO by Nef Luczon