Tumbok

Grace (Cristine Reyes) and Ronnie (Carlo Aquino) are a newly-wed couple who inherited a condominium unit from the latter’s deceased father. As they move into the unit, they face a series of mishaps and misfortunes. The unit is inhabited by strange tenants. Grace starts to experience haunting, sightings, to the extent of incubus. As Grace starts to pursue the occurences in the building, she discovers that the building was built on a “TUMBOK,” a convergence of three roads which is believed to be unlucky. Tragic deaths happen caused by Mark (Ryan), the building caretaker who turns out to be the devil trapping souls into the vortex. He is also the incubus that makes love to Grace. Can Grace and Ronnie save themselves from the impending danger brought about by the “Tumbok?” What misery that lies in the past haunts the lead characters?

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Bigasan

Bigasan is one of those films that feel overly familiar, as if everything in it is something that you’ve seen before. It rehashes every faux-indie plot produced in the last five years, tacking on only the most facile of changes. But if the only crime Bigasan committed was being familiar, that wouldn’t be too bad. The bigger problem is that none of the stories actually go anywhere, the movie feeling like seventy minutes of wheel-spinning and fabricated drama. Bigasan tells the story of a poor community regularly by government trucks selling rice at subsidized prices. The people line up for hours to get their share of the rice, while those who don’t have money to pay for their meager portion end up doing all sorts of things in order to get food on the table. There’s the mother (Ana Capri) who pimps out her teenage son to a gay benefactor. There’s young mother who prostitutes herself. There’s her husband who works despite having tuberculosis. There’s the elderly woman who lives off the scraps of a ruthless loan shark.

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