A group of young people disregard superstition and find themselves haunted by a malicious spirit following a visit to a wake.
The concept of the movie is based on a Filipino superstitious belief that one should never go home directly after visiting a wake since it risks bringing evil spirits to one's home. One should first shake off (in Filipino,pagpag) whatever curse there may be to avoid being trailed by the soul of the dead (Wikipedia)
-----------Late last year , my Cousins and i were discussing about the movies that will be shown for Metro Manila Film Festival , we decided we are going to watch one of the movies ( Call me cheap but P200 bucks is BIG for me , its would suck to spend that amount and get out of the theater pissed because of the movie ) so it wad a Toss Up between Vice Ganda's " Girl, Boy , Bakla , Tomboy" or Kathneil's "Pagpag: Siyam na Buhay" ( I LOVE Ryzza Mae but i think "My Little Bossings aint my cup of tea ). Since most of us are Horror Fanatics, We decided to watch "Pagpag" when Sharmz gets Back in Cebu ( Sharmz is my Cousins Girlfriend who went home to Bacolod for the Season).
So the day came , the Day we are going to watch "Pagpag" ..
So Lets start with my Ranting ^_^
The Movie starts with a scene showing a mother weeping for his sons death (Enchong Dee) , then a woman in Fuckin Bloody Red dress came in to the Funeral (Empress Schuck) who happens to be his late sons Girlfriend and the Reason why his son commited Suicide . The upset mother of the deceased shoved the girl out and told her she aint welcome for she caused all this . Upset with what happend , the girlfriend went to her Dorm directly after going to the wake , upon arriving to her dorm , she bumped in to her friend who asked her "Nag Pagpag ka na ba?" In which she sarcastically anawered "Pinagpag ako ng Nanay Niya!" meaning she didnt . Her friend left and she went to her room , she was looking at the photo of her and her late boyfriend when she hears a weird sound coming from the hallway , she stood up and walked over towards the door when suddenly the door shuts . Suprised , she dropped the photo frame she was holding and decide to pick it up when she looked back at the photo , was shocked to see that the Photo of his boyfriend was already looking straight at her , then she felt something behind her then slowly to turned around and saw her boyfriend hanging infront of her then she screams
Enchong Dee and Empress Schucks performance here , though it was short but for me it was good . Enchong Dee hanging in the Ceiling was AWESOME!
I like the dead Enchong better than the Dead Paulo ( we will talk about him later).
So that was the end of the opening sequence and the start of the Main Event ( Boxing?! Haha ) . The movie started showing a group of Friends, Cedric (Daniel Padilla) , Rico ( Dominic Roque ) , Hannah (Michelle Vito) , Ashley (Miles Ocampo) and Justin ( CJ Navato) going inside a horror house , a group of guys were following them ( Guys from PBB Teens i believe , not sure though) and made some malicious actions towards Hannah while inside the Horror House , Hannah then told her "Boyfriend" Cedric about what happend which ended up with a Fist fight towards the groups . I was kinda annoyed with the girls during this scene because they were the one super excited to get in the horror house but did nothing but complain all through out (Hannah), forgiven it was the writers fault , not the actors :p
Moving on , because of the incident , Cedric was grounded but was able to sneak out with his car ( Smart Kid , nautakan si Daddy! ^_^) . While driving , she almost ran a girl over named Leni , upset with what happend , Leni made a scene throwing things on Cedric Car and also managed to lose her bracelet while doing so . They went separate ways , Cedric meeting his Rich Friends and Leni went home to see that his uncle Dencio (Janus del Prado ) and his Friend Marcelo (Marvin Yap) drunk , she scolded them then went on looking for his stepbrother MacMac (Clarence Delgado) who was drawing a picture of 9 people with the number 9 beside it , kinda creeped out , Leni told him not to draw those anymore . Meanwhile Cedric and his friends were partying up on a hill when Hannah asked Cedric whats wrong and they ended up in a heated arguement ending to Cedric admitting he doesnt have feelings for Hannah , Enraged by the word she heard , Hannah threw stones at Cedric's car and accidentaly hit him on the Shoulders which made him so Upset that he ends up driving to nowhere until morning .
Leni was so pleased to have a client for her Funeral bussines that she Accepted the job even if there are Rumors that this couple is a Bad news and they made a deal with the devil to bring back their son Emmanuel , Marcelo and Dencio were not to thrilled with the idea saying the Rumors are true . They arrived in the client's home where she met Lucy ( Shaina Magdayao) who is the wife of the Deceased ,Ramon ( Paulo Avellino) . They were preparing for the funeral of Roman , They were preparing everything when Dencio Found a P50 on the floor , under Ramon's Coffin. Marcelo on the other hand as cleaning outside the house and was seen by Eva (Matet de Leon) and was reprimanded that sweeping is not allowed in Funerals , it was bad Omen. Dencio and Marcelo decided to leave first before Leni and told her they will just buy candles .
Since her job is over for the day , Leni told Lucy that she will be back the next day and will just be getting a tricycle to go home . While waiting , Cedric and his friends wanted to go home and Hannah asked her if he wont ever be talking to her , they again argued and Hannah tried to stir the steering away from Cedric , causing them to go of the road and almost ran ove Leni .... Again ( she sure is lucky!).
They were arguing in the middle of the road when Lucy came to Leni to ask her if there are any problems , before she could answer Hannah was not feeling good and Lucy decided to let them in . They didnt know this will be the beginning of their end. All of them violated the old Superstitions . First Justin , when they came inside the House , he saw some sandwiches prepared for the Wake and decided to bring one home ( Never bring food for the Wake Home) , then after that Hannah saw Cedric and Leni talking closely outside and became jealous , she then confided with her friend Ashley and dropped some tears one the coffing (Never let your tears touch the coffin), she was scolded by Eva because of this so Rico , to help Hannah , he wiped the tears away with his handkerchief ( Never wipe away the tears in the coffin) . Eva was mas because they are disobeying every superstitions when Ashley took out her Mirror which was also bad Omen. Eva sent them to their cars in which is also bad omen to send any visitors to their destination, she then saw Cedric with blood on his shirt and told him to have it check ASAP ( Its also not good to go to a Wake injured or with open wounds).
Soon after this happend , one by one they were being killed the way they commited the violation
Marcelo - sweeping the ground, killed with a broom.
Hannah - crying and dropping tears on the coffin, the entity gouged her eyes out.
Rico - wiping the coffin's cover, killed by an entity from the handkerchief he used.
Eva - she bring her visitors at the car of Cedric that's the 9th saying that you should not bring any visitors to their destination so she was sucked in a cemetery at the back of the church.
Ashley - using her compact mirror in the funeral, she wounded herself with a body-sized mirror and killed with a glass chandelier.
Justin - stole a sandwich from the funeral, killed when two trucks crushed him. The police term used is "Sandwich kill".
Dencio - stole money from the funeral, killed when he offers to return the money to the spirit.
I will just end my "Summary" here so you can watch the ending and see if you will be surprised or was the movie Predicatble .
Overall , The Movie for me was ok , im not going to say It is a must to watch this movie but it was also not that much a waste of money , i want more Death scenes! I dont want to have somebody alive 10 seconds ago then after 5 seconds he is already up in the Electric wires , i wanna see how ended up there , if possible , more gore ...
I give it 4 stars out of Five / Gore Please and please dont force the actors to speak english even if they arent that good in it , Too Distracting :p
Gotta hit the sack , its already 2am and im exhausted! goodnyttttt!!
Here are some photos from this evening
Xoxo
king Moimoi
