Aye. That exposition did feel like padding AND pandering. I'm sure A LOT of people needed that.
I don't think it tried too hard. The score, at times, maybe.
Feng Shui is very Western in temperament - - -shlocky gore on parade, show-everything-til-the-audience pukes, have someone lay out the rules midstream, prefarably an occultist, sensational deaths etc.etc. (Lotlot's death scene was wonderful, I thought and so was the security guard, otherwise- - nope, didn't like it much.)
Sigaw was trying to be a bit more Asian, that is, a bit more understated - - -emphasis on the
trying, whether it succeeded or not is really a matter of opinion.
What I would've wanted
sana was for the movie to go further into someplace more insane like the Asian horror movies it wants to emulate When the ghosts started attacking the girlfriend , for instance (in what was one of very few,for me, ludicrous sequences) and the couple had to hide out in a moviehouse (nice touch, that - - -your life is going to surreal hell, you grab onto whatever foothold of
status quo you can , so yeah, I'd hide out in a moviehouse, too, if that happened to me, or go buy CDs maybe
) , all the standard horror movie rules went out the window. Suddenly ,it was on the verge of anything goes. But then it had to circle back to the macrocosm of that haunted house and to what was obviously the solution to the whole thing in the first place.
Sayang.
I've got my nits and all but I don't really want to dis a movie that I didn't feel bad about spending my money on so yeah, I still thought it was time well spent. Good show, all told, and hopefully the srtart of a trend that will eventually improve. Hopefully. The genre's ostensibly Pinoy, I wish we could milk more of it.
And I never noticed who the producer was 'til the end. Doesn't matter to me, really. She could produce all the damn entries if she wants, long as they're good.
