Pagpag: Siyam na Buhay

Pagpag: Siyam na Buhay

Theatrical movie poster
Directed by Frasco S. Mortiz
Screenplay by Joel Mercado
Kren Yap
Story by Joel Mercado
Starring Kathryn Bernardo
Daniel Padilla
Music by Francis Concio
Cinematography David Abaya
Edited by Jerrold Tarog
Production
company
Distributed by Regal Films
Star Cinema
Release date
  • December 25, 2013 (2013-12-25)
Running time
 105 minutes
Country Philippines
Language Filipino
Box office ₱188,750,969[1]

Pagpag: Siyam na Buhay (referred as Pagpag) is a 2013 Filipino supernatural horror film directed by Frasco S. Mortiz.[2] The film was released on December 25, 2013 at the Metro Manila Film Festival and stars Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla with Paulo Avelino and Shaina Magdayao.[3][4][5] The movie follows a group of teenagers that are terrorized by an evil spirit.[6]

The film revolves around the traditional Filipino belief that one should never go home directly after visiting a wake since it risks bringing evil spirits or the deceased to one's home.The movie grossed P23.7M on its first day of showing.[7]

Plot

Zarina (Empress Schuck) visits the funeral of her boyfriend Joseph Maurice (Enchong Dee) who hung himself. She is driven away by the boy's mother, insisting her son died because of her. When she arrives home, her sister asks her if she did the "pagpag" but she replies that she doesn't believe in it. Afterwards, she is suddenly haunted by the ghost of her dead boyfriend.

Cedric (Daniel Padilla), his friends; Hannah (Michelle Vito), Ashley (Miles Ocampo), Justin (CJ Navato) and Rico (Dominic Roque) enter a horror house. Hannah is assaulted by one of the men in the haunted house and Cedric fights for her. At home, Cedric's father scolds and grounds him and takes Cedric's fake keys for the car. While his Dad gave orders to their maid, Cedric escapes and drives the highways until he almost runs over a girl, Leni (Kathryn Bernardo). They fight and Leni unknowingly loses her charm bracelet in Cedric's car.

Cedric and his friends party on a hill. Cedric and Hannah have a heated argument which ends in Cedric revealing that he doesn't actually have feelings for Hannah and is not ready for a committed relationship, which prompts her to throw a rock at Cedric, wounding his shoulder. Cedric loses control and drives up until morning where they come upon the funeral of Roman (Paulo Avelino) with his wife, Lucy (Shaina Magdayao), in despair. They soon discover that the funeral was arranged by Leni, Dencio (Janus del Prado) and Marcelo (Marvin Yap). After the funeral, Marcelo is seen sweeping the room when Eva (Matet de Leon) suddenly scolds him as it was a bad superstition. All of the unwanted guests violate a superstition including: Hannah, who dropped tears on the coffin when she saw Cedric holding Leni's hand; Rico, who wiped the coffin with a handkerchief; Justin, who stole bread from the funeral; Ashley for looking at her reflection in the mirror; Cedric, by attending the funeral with a wound; Dencio, who stole the money below the coffin and Leni and everyone else who did not do the "Pagpag," an act of dusting off oneself after a funeral to avoid evil spirits following you home.

At home, Leni's stepbrother Mac-Mac (Clarence Delgado) sees apparitions and draws nine figures with a number 8. Marcelo who was sweeping outside is killed by a malevolent entity. Dencio blames Leni for not doing the Pagpag and tells her that the spirit is coming back for the rest of them. He proceeds to tell her the story of how Roman, the husband of Lucy, died. Roman and Lucy once had a child who unfortunately died. Roman made a pact with the demons to bring back his son's life, but on the consequence that he kill nine people in order to do so, and he willingly obliged. After committing his sins, he found his son well and alive inside his coffin. One night, the people from the barrio tried to burn Roman's house down because they knew he was working for the devil. This act led to the loss of Roman and his son, Emmanuel lives.

Meanwhile, Hannah is planning to commit suicide when she suddenly sees a shadow which she thought it was Cedric's, which she tries to follow. After a while, her phone suddenly rings and it turns out to be Cedric telling her that he is on his way there. Hannah panics and a demonic form gouges her eyes out and throws her into the pool, killing her. Cedric witnesses the event and is blamed for what happened. One by one, Cedric's friends are killed by the unknown entity they brought back with them from the funeral. Rico is killed when the soul from his handkerchief throws him against a wall in a gym's shower room, which he first thought was Justin and says that he is really gay. Cedric consults Justin and Ashley and insists them to burn the clothes they wore so they did.

Cedric decides to go back to the house of Lucy so he can talk to Eva (Lucy's older sister). While on his way, he sees Leni in the market and decided to follow her. While in the market, Leni suddenly sees the ghost of Roman which caused her to run and panic. Cedric saw Leni panicking causing him to worry about her and chase after her. Leni blacks out while being chased and Cedric rescues her before Roman's ghost catches her. Cedric brings Leni to his car and drives. Leni woke up and was alarmed she ordered Cedric to stop the car. After the car stopped she and Cedric talked, they both find out they have the same goal and decided to team up.

When they found the coffin, the body is not there anymore. They searched the house and saw three human figures in the wall drew in blood. Leni goes to find Mac-Mac in the church and Dencio, together with Eva also arrives to warn them and tells the group that Mac-Mac is really Emmanuel. She tells them that during the fire, she went there to save the baby in order for him to stay away from the demonic lives of his parents.

When Eva tells Cedric and Leni that the body is in their old house, they went to find it. In the church, Mac-Mac was then trapped inside. Eva is killed when she is sucked inside a tomb. Meanwhile, Ashley and Justin had done what Cedric asked them to do, they went inside Ashley's house, Justin told Ashley he will leave for a while to make a sandwich in the kitchen which caused Ashley to panic and to be scared. To overcome her fear she took pictures of herself but while she was taking pictures she saw one of the images has the face of the ghost. She is soon thrown to a mirror then falls down. Ashley is impaled by a falling chandelier and Justin, who was running away in the streets calling Cedric about it was crushed by two trucks, getting sandwiched in between.

In the church, Dencio is trapped inside his car when he plans to save Mac-Mac in the church. The spirit taunts him and he tries to give back the money he stole. He rolls down the windows and tries to get out but is ultimately killed after his neck being impaled by a shattered glass of a car window. When Mac-Mac is able to get out from the church, he sees the spirits of the recently killed victims warning them that Cedric and Leni are both in danger. He then follows Roman's spirit on the way to the house.

Meanwhile, when Cedric and Leni find the old house, they realize that it was Lucy who sent her husband's spirit to murder the victims until he obtains nine lives for him to be alive. Mac-Mac rushes in to save them but he is caught by Lucy and threatens to kill him. Before she does, they tell Lucy the truth about Emmanuel. The entity tries to kill Leni and Cedric, but Lucy intervenes and was impaled by a girder. After Roman finally reanimates from the dead, he rushes to Lucy, who reveals to him that she was pregnant which killed their second child and explain to him that their son is still alive before she dies from her wound. Enraged of her death, Roman attempts to kill Leni before being stabbed by Cedric.

In the aftermath, Cedric arrives in the hospital to visit Leni and Mac-Mac. Within seconds of having fun, they see the apparitions of Lucy and Roman smiling at them eerily.

Cast

Main Cast

Supporting cast

Special Participation

Reception

Critical reception

Zig Marasigan of Rappler named the film as "‘Pagpag:' Stylish superstition" and added, "Although Pagpag does lack in scares, it does deliver on a handful of satisfying thrills that may be cheap but are thoroughly entertaining."[8]

Box office gross

Pagpag: Siyam na Buhay grossed P23.7M on its first day of showing.[9] The movie total Box-Office Gross P182,750,969 including P87,752,439 in Metro Manila, and P94,998,530 provincial. Made the movie at No.6 Star Cinema top-grossing MMFF entries from 2009-2013[1]

Accolades

Award Giving Body Award Recipient(s) Result
39th Metro Manila Film Festival
Best Picture Pagpag: Siyam Na Buhay Nominated
Best Actor Daniel Padilla Nominated
Best Actress Kathryn Bernardo Nominated
Best Director Frasco Santos Mortiz Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Janus Del Prado Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Shaina Magdayao Nominated
Youth Choice Award Pagpag: Siyam Na Buhay Won[10]
Best Festival Make-Up Mountain Rock Productions & Leslie Lucero Won[10]
Best Visual Effects Blackburst Inc. Nominated
Best Child Performer Clarence Delgado Nominated
Best Sound Recording Arnel Labayo Nominated
Best Original Story Joel Mercado Nominated
Mavshack Male Star of the Night Daniel Padilla Won
2014 Young Critics Circle Awards Best Film Frasco Mortiz Nominated
Best Achievement Film Editing Jerrold Tarog Won
Best Actor Daniel Padilla Nominated[11]
2014 Famas Awards Best Visual Effects Blackburst Inc. Won[12][13]
Best Actor Daniel Padilla Nominated[14]
2014 GMMSF Box-Office Entertainment Awards Prince of Philippine Movies Daniel Padilla Won[15]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Star Cinema reveals top-grossing MMFF entries from 2009-2013". Philippine Entertainment Portal. Archived from the original on January 11, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Pagpag Starring Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla".
  3. ↑ Cruz, Marinel R. (December 29, 2013). "MMFF winners hope for box-office boost". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Archived from the original on December 31, 2013. The popular tandem of Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla said the success of their own entry, “Pagpag: Siyam na Buhay” was their best Christmas gift.
  4. ↑ "Mother Lily pahinga na sa Shake… pero may sosyo sa Pagpag".
  5. ↑ Martinez - Belen, Crispina. "‘Pagpag: Siyam Na Buhay,’ A career milestone for Paulo Avelino". Manila Bulletin. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  6. ↑ Salvador, Bubbles. ""CONFIDENT AKO SA MOVIE NA ITO," SAYS KATHRYN BERNARDO ABOUT HORROR MOVIE PAGPAG, SIYAM NA BUHAY". PEP. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  7. ↑ Buan-Deveza, Reyma. "Daniel-Kathryn movie surpasses P100-M mark". ABS-CBN News. Archived from the original on December 31, 2013.
  8. ↑ Marasigan, Zig (December 28, 2013). "‘Pagpag:' Stylish superstition". Rappler. Archived from the original on December 28, 2013.
  9. ↑ Buan-Deveza, Reyma. "Daniel-Kathryn movie surpasses P100-M mark". ABS-CBN News. Archived from the original on December 31, 2013.
  10. 1 2 Cruz. Marinel R. (28 December 2013). "Lacson film biggest winner, loser". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  11. ↑ "‘Porno’ named Young Critics Circle’s Best Film of 2013 | Young Critics Circle Film Desk". Archived from the original on March 2, 2014. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  12. ↑ "FAMAS 2014 hails KC Concepcion, ER Ejercito top performers | Entertainment". Asian Journal. Archived from the original on February 16, 2017.
  13. ↑ Cruz, Marinel R. "Star-studded, awards-packed Famas night". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014.
  14. ↑ "Who do you think will win in the 62nd FAMAS Awards?". Philippine Entertainment Portal. July 8, 2014. Archived from the original on July 10, 2014.
  15. ↑ "Complete List of Winners: 45th Guillermo Mendoza Box-Office Entertainment Awards 2014 | The Summit Express". The Summit Express. Archived from the original on March 26, 2016.
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