Aswanglaut

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Isang igat na iniihaw ni Luklak ang makaaagaw ng pansin sa mga aswang na naggagala sa bahaging iyon ng kagubatan. Ang katotohanan ay kapatid ng dalaga ang iniihaw niyang igat na siyang ipinanganak ng kanyang ina noon bago ito pumanaw. Inilibing ang kapatid sa pook na iyon at ngayon lamang binungkal ni Luklak upang gawing hapunan sa kadahilangang siya lamang ang nakaaalam. Matapos makipagtagisan ng talino sa mga halimaw ay malilinlang pa rin ito na bahagian sila kahit kaunti ng napakasarap na kinakain niya. Sila ay kanyang pagbibigyan habang hihikayatin naman siya ng mga ito na dilaan ang tira-tira na ibabalik nila sa kanya. Ito na ang simula ng pagbabago ng buhay ni Luklak sapagkat ito ang magiging dahilan ng kanyang pagiging aswang. Ilang araw ng sakit at karamdaman ang pagdurusahan ng dalaga hanggang tuluyang maging ganap ang kanyang pagbabagong-anyo. Ano nga ba ang naghihintay na tungkulin niya kapag siya ay naging bahagi na ng mga halimaw na kanyang kinaiinisan?

And the Breadwinner Is...

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Bambi Salvador (Vice Ganda) has been working as an OFW in Taiwan for more than a decade now. When his contract is not renewed due to unfavorable blood test results in his annual medical examination, he flies back home to Pampanga unannounced expecting his siblings to welcome him in their house which has supposedly been already renovated and celebrate his birthday at the same time. Not only have they forgotten his special day, he also arrives in the same old house he left 15 years ago sans the improvements where the money he has been sending all these years should have gone. When a case of mistaken identity leads everyone to believe that Bambi has died of a road accident, a representative from the company of his life insurance informs the family that they are indicated as his beneficiaries and are on their way to receiving 10 million pesos. However, Bambi is alive and well. Can they put aside their differences as a family to put on a good show for the money?

My Future You

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A comet that shows up once every 15 years becomes a fixture to brighten up the night sky. Two young adults sign up for an account on a dating website and immediately match. Alex or “Lex” (Seth Fedelin) resides in Cebu while Karenina or “Karen” (Francine Diaz) hails from Marikina. After a day or two of chatting, they are sure that their rapport is not just an online thing, and the two decide to meet up. Lex books a flight to the capital and they agree to meet up at Luneta’s kilometer zero at exactly 7 PM. After two consecutive nights of trying, the two never meet. Soon they discover that they are living fifteen years apart. Lex is in 2009 while Karen is in 2024. Discovering the advantages of knowing someone in the past, Karen asks Lex a favor to change the future which is technically her present so that her family can be whole again.

Espantaho

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Despite suffering from bouts of what looks like epilepsy, Monet (Judy Ann Santos) takes care of everything for her father’s funeral. The patriarch has succumbed to lung cancer and his first family cannot be contacted for whatever reason. Monet’s mother Rosa (Lorna Tolentino) is ever present yet does nothing but nag while her partner Jack (JC Santos) leaves her and the house at the behest of his legal wife. Only the house help and her son lend Monet any kind of necessary support. The first wife Adele (Chanda Romero) finally shows up shortly after the nine days of prayer and mourning have commenced with her two children, Monet’s half-siblings, in tow. They are only in town for obvious reasons, which is to sell the property her legal husband has left behind, including the very house Monet and her son are living in. As a mysterious landscape painting of a scarecrow finds itself inside the house, people begin to disappear.