In the 1950s, American counterinsurgents decided to play into Philippine folklore by orchestrating a deadly ’vampire‘ attack.

Thus, the aswang moved from folklore to contemporary politics to the extrajudicial killings that littered nighttime streets and alleys with corpses of drug pushers, drug users, and people who happened ...

Philippine folklore has plenty of aswang (monster) stories—creatures with contorted or shape-shifting figures, to which belong the witches, vampires, manananggal (which upper body separates from ...

ONE can cop out and talk of Nocebo as a film belonging to the horror genre. Gothic is the word that comes to mind. A few minutes into the film, however, the narrative eases into a plot of guilt ...

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BACOLOD CITY: A woman who villagers suspected to be an 'aswang,' a shape-shifting mythological creature in Filipino folklore, was hogtied and beaten up by some residents of Barangay Gargato, Hinigaran ...

“Lumayo na kami sa aswang at multo,” he added. “We thought of something that is truly Filipino pero hindi pa natin na-eexplore masyado and the barang, the good and the bad mangkukulam, are mostly not ...

Alyx Ayn Arumpac’s Aswang won big at the 44th Gawad Urian awards ceremony on Thursday, October 21, bagging Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Documentary. The Aswang team ...

In Filipino folklore, ‘aswang’ refers to a fearsome range of shape-shifting monsters – vampires, ghouls, weredogs, and more – that stalk the streets by night. These spirits haunt countless ...

Aswang Review. Aswang (2019) Film Review from the 74th Annual Locarno Film Festival, a documentary written and directed by Alyx Ayn Arumpac.