TIKTIK Aswang Chronicles (movie review)

  On October 21st, Sunday, my family and I watched TIKTIK Aswang Chronicles the movie which was directed by Erik Matti. At first I was actually laughing at this movie when I saw the trailer, I was like; "The heck with this movie?" "Another corny movie on theatres is now showing." I was really not interested at watching it at all. When we were on the ticket booth, I was really pissed when dad bought the ticket, "The heck?! There are other movies worth paying for." and I was cursing the ticket selling at the back of my head.

  When I heard that the movie used only green screen I was really discriminating it to death. "Who will watch that kind of movie? Green screen? Computer effects? I bet that movie is just another fail computer effects." See how I reacted on this movie "before" I've seen it? You can't blame me; other movies with computer effects in the Philippines are nothing but low quality.

  So after hearing that TIKTIK Aswang Chronicles is about special effects my expectation didn't change, until I've seen it. "I am impressed" that's all I can utter after the first effect came on scene. It excites me even more when the Tiktik transforms; from a pig to a human. The whole movie is not what I expected; it was beyond my expectations at all. "You can't tell that it was all green screens, unless you knew it." The transformation and all are just amazing; I mean how they can imagine such thing, and not just that, but also the story, straight to the point. Unlike other movies, they have too many twists which are not helping at all. But this movie stays on its main plot; it is not boring to watch. It scares me, like I was really yelling. It made us laugh, especially on the scene where Makoy(Dingdong Dantes) thought that Bart(Ramon Bautista) was a Tiktik and made him eat the 'Boy Bawang'(corn snack garlic flavor), and also on the part where Nestor(Joey Marquez) eating the heart of the other Tiktik who killed his wife Fely(Janice de Belen) while yelling, "Gusto mo magkainan?  Magkainan tayo!"

  The breath taking part was when the baby was falling from the grip of the head Tiktik Tatang(Roi Vinzon) and  Sonia(Lovi Poe) is aiming to catch it. Right after that was Macoy's(Dingdong Dantes) turn to kill Tatang(Roi Vinzon) and there it ends.

  When the movie ends we are all satisfied with what we've seen and all those discouraging words I said earlier (I swallowed it back in) were replaced by two thumbs up. Now I know we can really produce a movie that is very much high quality like foreign films that we are all watching. This review is nothing but my own perspectives. I am glad that I get to see this kind of movie, and proud because this movie is a Filipino movie, with such effects and story plot, what else do I need to have? Nothing.

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