SYNOPSICS
Eerie (2018) is a Filipino,Tagalog movie. Mikhail Red has directed this movie. Bea Alonzo,Charo Santos-Concio,Jake Cuenca,Maxene Magalona are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2018. Eerie (2018) is considered one of the best Horror,Mystery,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
The unexpected and gruesome death of a student threatens the existence of an old Catholic school for girls. Pat Consolacion (Bea Alonzo), the school guidance counselor, involves herself with the students in the hopes of helping them cope, and at the same time uncover the mysteries of the student's death. Most students suspect of the strict and borderline abusive Mother Alice (Charo Santos-Concio), who also threatened Pat's tenure in the school because of her continuous meddling with the case. But Pat's unusual talents lead her to knowing Eri, a former student who's been watching the whole school for years. Piece by piece, Pat uncovers the secret of the school and the monster that it nurtured for the past century.
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Eerie (2018) Reviews
A Classic Horror movie trope, the fractures between mental health issues and conventional faith.
A Seriously good local horror-drama in a long time, since mainstream bombarded us with trashy comedy robed as horror movies. Mikhail Red took the overused subculture stories of restroom suicide deaths into a smooth yet knotted mystery. The film quickly builds up great anticipation, an uneasy atmosphere that wails unsettling imagery, all in just the first few gasps of its viewers inside the cinema. The bleak cinematic tonality of the sequences, in combination with James Wan-inspired visual language, works well in setting-up tension. Red refinedly pulls off good suspense in some events, where notable music score reaches its disturbing peaks. As the mystery untangles, this suspenseful style became monotonous and formulaic for the whole movie. As good as it gets, those repetitions were contradicted by its fast-paced sequence of events - this fueled its smooth narrative and effective character building. In the midst of the tension, the storyline introduces a contrast between conventional faith and modern approach to mental health. Subtly portrayed that the society even religion contributes to this looming, unresolved complication. The narrative progression was presented intelligently with its balanced twists-concealment except for its conclusion where it became too spoon-feeding. Nonetheless, the ending relieved the film with its refreshing and fulfilling finale.
Sister Act
Odd cliche-ridden horror flick on a strange Guidance Counsellor who dabbles in the supernatural to help teen girls who are dying one by one in a convent. Starts out slow but picks up in the end. A fine representation of the genre from Southeast Asia.
Scary And Terrifying Movie!
For Me Eerie Is My Favorite Pinoy Horror Movie! Terrifying for me and it also has moral lessons from the movie! Maganda yung twist grabehh! Nood na! Congrats Sa Mga Bumubuo Ng Pelikula Especially Kay Bea At Ma'am Charo! My problem is the ending ahaha i am wondering why did ______ died?! Anyways, i still can remember the face of Erika!
A Breakthrough in Philippine Cinema
Notice I used breakthrough in Philippine Cinema. The formula used by Mikhail Red (who is very young and promising at 28/29 btw), is something we've seen before in some other movies. But he delivered. The first scenes were a huge turn-off. Because of course, one girl has to go to the comfort room ALONE. Then for some reason (probably had a black out OF ALL DAYS), its dark. Because it has to. And the windows HAVE to be opened so the curtains will fly and make room for a windy atmosphere. Uh-huh. Why oh why can't horror take place in a well-illuminated place???? With a lot of people. At daytime. Haha! At some point, dark atmosphere works against the essence of the film because I can't see the ghost anymore hehe. Another huge turn off. The overused scene of one picking up a pen that has fallen on the floor then seeing feet on the other side of the table. A lot of decent jumpscares here. Decent sound effects too. Again, I applaud Mikhail for setting the bar high. We've seen this all before. The story. The style used by the director. BUT what I find in this movie being a breakthrough is it does create an eerie atmosphere, showing that Philippine horror has evolved. Of course, gone were the days of long-haired pale-skinned ghosts crawling out of the TV. Its time to open the floodgates for themes that may well come under sacrilege, in a country of Catholics. Though, to be fair, there's no sacrilege here as the only religious element involved is the fact that the school is ran by nuns and one of the main (mysterious) characters is a nun. One thing why this movie also did well in the box office and in the critics is for the longest time since Seklusyon (I think), a horror film, that could actually be called a decent horror film, was offered to the masses. Because you know what sells so much like hotcakes here? Infidelity stories! Yeah man, who wants to solve the mystery of the crying lady in the CR anyway when its so much fun seeing the wife pull the mistress by the hair?? Pat (Bea Alonzo) is a guidance counselor in Sta. Lucia Academy, an all-girls school ran by nuns. The atmosphere becomes weird when a student, Erika, commits suicide. Pat encounters visions of Erika and talks to her. Soon, another girl gets killed. Or was she? Pat tries to solve the mystery behind the killings in the school (and the role that the school's head, Sister Alice (Charo Santos has to play), including that of another girl who tries to commit suicide. Everything is not new to the eyes. The ending part was well-made, no mind-bending twists here. The movie was consistent from start to finish. Now what is truly remarkable about this is the promise of potential from the director, Mikhail Red. Note that he is only 28 or 29...And seeing Eerie, I would've thought this was made by an old-timer. The young man knows what he's doing.
Atmosphere
Almost since The Conjouring I havent felt that any movie building a nice horror atmosphere, instead of relying in easy jumps and scary sounds effects. The aesthetic works perfectly, and brings you inside the story from the very beggining. Screenplay still bases its developing in a few cliches of genre, and might be weak at certain points but SPOILER ALERT*F few movies are able to show you the ghost from the very beggining and still succed in scaring you. Definetely worth watching, definetely worth following what the director cooks next