Shake, Rattle & Roll II
Shake, Rattle & Roll II is the second installment of the Shake, Rattle & Roll franchise. The film was distributed by Regal Films and is directed by Peque Gallaga & Lore Reyes. This film is an entry of the 1990 Metro Manila Film Festival. It is the first starring role of Manilyn Reynes before the following sequels.
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| Produced by | Lily Monteverde |
| Written by | Peque Gallaga |
| Based on | Tinyente Gimo (segment "Aswang") |
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| Music by | Jose Gentica V |
| Cinematography | Eduardo Jacinto |
| Edited by | Rene Tala |
Production company | Regal Films |
| Distributed by | Regal Films |
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| Country | Philippines |
| Language | Filipino |
Plot
Multo
Newlyweds Cathy (Janice de Belen) and Mari (Eric Quizon) spent their honeymoon at a rural vacation house in Baguio. They are less welcomed by the old caretaker (Caridad Sanchez) who tours the place including a locked room.
A malevolent presence disturbed the couple's time around the house. During their sleep, Cathy suffers a nightmare of a deranged doctor (Eddie Gutierrez) who tortures a young girl (Isabel Granada) in his clinic. The next day while prepping breakfast, Cathy stumbles on the locked room which turns out to be the doctor's clinic from her dream.
The caretaker reveals the truth behind the house that was built before World War II: it was once owned by the obstetrician Dr. Corpus who murdered and harbor physical torture on young ladies, including his niece Consuelo who was his last victim before the doctor commits suicide inside the clinic. His vengeful spirit remained trapped in the house's premises, including his clinic and personal belongings, to influence the victim and relive his sadistic felony. But at the same time, Mari snuck into the clinic and wore Corpus' ring as the ghost forbids it from expelling at his hand to possess him.
During their dinner night, Cathy noticed Mari wore the ring who urged for his wife's help to remove it from his hand. Before Cathy could help him, Corpus' spirit repossesses Mari and attacks her as she locks herself into the clinic but the possessed Mari break through the door and intends to kill her as she manage to fight him off, releasing him from the ghost's influence. Mari urged Cathy to severe his finger with the ring to prevent Corpus from coming back. After doing so, Cathy threw the ring into the fireplace as the couple are reunited from the ghost's haunting.
Kulam
Bogart (Joey Marquez), a handicapped and overmodest patient, has feelings for Dra. Kalbaryo (Daisy Romualdez), his arrogant but affectionate doctor, who does his check-up. After Kalbaryo finishes his check-up, Bogart's friend Tiffany (Carmina Villaroel) visits him in his room and started to talk. As Tiffany leaves, Melanie (Sylvia Sanchez), a troubled and flirtatious nurse began to have sex with Bogart. When Dra. Kalbaryo returns, she is enraged at seeing them inter-coursing each other and fires Melanie. Kalbaryo berates Bogart for his love to her and reveals her family heritage. Kalbaryo later reveals herself to be a witch, born under her great grandfather who is a witch doctor. When Bogart refuse to profess his love to Kalbaryo, she began to torture him by performing a voodoo on him using his hair to a voodoo doll. As Kalbaryo leaves the room, Tiffany had left her books in the hospital and returned as Bogart urges her to help him escape.
Kalbaryo, who had noticed that Bogart escape, found him hiding in the nursery room with Tiffany and turned all the babies into tiyanaks. After escaping, Bogart and Tiffany hide in a laboratory where they find Melanie. They explain about Kalbaryo to the nurse who told them that witches use body parts from their victims in their voodoo dolls to perform their voodoo. Tiffany realized that she had Kalbaryo's hairbrush earlier after they bumped each other. Melanie distracts Kalbaryo with the hospital's intercom system to allow Tiffany to enter the room and replace Kalbaryo's hair into Bogart's voodoo doll.
Melanie hides Bogart at a morgue for protection but Kalbaryo cast a spell to reincarnate the bodies of the bus crash victims from the morgue. After Kalbaryo left, Tiffany sneaks into the room and manage to replace the hair in the voodoo doll. Kalbaryo returns and caught Tiffany, after she had replaced the hair, taking the voodoo doll away from her. She forced Tiffany to watch as she turns her friend into a frog but unaware to her of the doll that has her hair, she had turned herself into a frog. Meanwhile, Bogart and Melanie were attacked by the reincarnated bus victims. Tiffany manage to reverse the spell, saving them.
As the trio began celebrating; Melanie notice Kalbaryo, who was still a frog, followed them and scream for Melanie's help. After being insulted by Kalbaryo, Melanie traps her in the zoology laboratory where she will be used for dissecting frogs.
Aswang
Portia (Manilyn Reynes) was invited by her best friend Monica (Ana Roces) to celebrate the fiesta in her hometown village. After their arrival, she was welcomed by the villagers including Monica's mother (Vangie Labalan) and the town chief (Rez Cortez) but the tricycle driver urges Portia to leave the barrio and get back home to Manila.
While Portia was sleeping, Monica was questioned by her mother about the chieftain's doubts on her about Portia in order to commence with the ceremony for the fiesta. The next day, Portia and Monica are greeted by their fellow friends Ricky (Aljon Jimenez) and Milo (Anjo Yllana) who are camping outside the barrio. They had followed Portia after she arrived the village and are convinced about the rumors that the townsfolk are aswangs but she denied their claims.
Later, Portia became suspicious to the eccentric nature of the villagers after inspecting their appetite of eating raw meat during their daily meals earlier. On the night of the fiesta, Portia finds the tricycle driver the day she spoke before was locked in one of the suspended hunting cages who convinced Portia to escape the village. Back at the house, Monica confesses to Portia that the rumors behind the town are actually true and that the residents are a group of aswangs. She then reveals to her that she lured virgins into the barrio as a human sacrifice to commemorate their feast. As a result, their next victim was Portia as Monica attempts to sedate her with a drug-tainted tea to initiate the creatures' feast but Portia had discovered her intention earlier and manage to switch her tea to Monica's during their conversation. After Monica passes out from the drug, Portia conceals her on the bed with her blanket before the townspeople arrive who mistook their intended victim as the chieftain unwittingly kills Monica and took her body instead.
Portia witnessed the townspeople feasted their victims, including the tricycle driver, during the ceremony before their transformation as she sneaks out of the barrio to escape. The aswangs are infuriated by the death of Monica after realizing Portia's intentions and began to chase after her through the forest but are unable to reach her after Portia found a crucifix on the ground to protect herself as she manage to reach the boys' campsite. The teens intend to escape through the van but are surrounded by the tribe after Portia dropped the crucifix earlier as the creatures attack and killed Milo while Portia and Ricky drove away. However the aswang chieftain chases after them and sabotage the van to attack Portia but Ricky manage to defeat and kill the monster by shooting it with his cross necklace from a slingshot.
Eventually, the teens manage to escape from the barrio en route after Portia suffered her nightmares from the aswangs' recent attacks.
Cast
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Awards
| Year | Award-Giving Body | Category | Recipient | Result |
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| 1990 | Metro Manila Film Festival [1] | Best Art Direction | Don Escudero | Won |
| Best Visual Effects | Sammy Arranzamendez and Benny Batoccoy | Won | ||
| Best Make-up | Denni Tan, Dominique Nazareth and Andrea Manahan | Won |
References
- "Metro Manila Film Festival:1990". IMDB. Retrieved 2014-04-09.
