6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
unique,creative,disturbing,spooky=GOOD HORROR, March 22, 2004
This review is from: Aswang (DVD)
this is a cool movie!when i picked it up in the store i really didn't know what i was geting my self into.you can read the back but you still dont know what your in for.i wont tell you any detail of the movie,dont want to ruin anything what i will tell you is as much as this movie may not seem original when the movie is all over you will understand that its truley very original.its sick its twisted its spooky scary and it works,it works good!!i really liked it and if your a true horror fan you will like it to.if your a bloody fan you wont be discruntled,ther's a decent amount of it.hurry up get this dvd its got cool interviews with director,cast and so on and it is geting harder and harder to find in stores.so curl up with your pillow chomp down some popcorn ladies find someone to sqeeze and eveyone ENJOY!!!!!!
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Better Than Hitchcock?, September 2, 2003
This review is from: Aswang (DVD)
This film would have been a lot funnier with Steve Martin and Queen Latifah in the starring roles. But it does stand well on its own. It scared me. It scared my wife. And it scared the house full of kids (believing they were watching TOY STORY),that our six year old showed it to when we forgot to take it out of the DVD player. Angry parents? Let me tell you.
For horror fans who have become jaded by the run-of-mill teen scream films of late. ASWANG is a breath of fresh air. All the gore we've come to expect AND an actual storyline, too. Why no sequel??!!!!
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
What's So Extreme About This?, August 31, 2003
By A Customer
This review is from: Aswang (DVD)
Like those of many movies, the cover box for Aswang carries several boastful claims, such as "It will haunt your nightmares forever" or something to that effect, which is a clear exaggeration, but still attention getting. Also on the box is that Sundance audiences found the film shocking and that video stores refused to carry it for years, and seeing as Sundance films are more commonly about pressing social issues than baby-eating vampires (possibly the most relevant issue of all), and mainstream video stores are nauseatingly Puritanistic, this claim seems less far-fetched.
But even if you weren't expecting it to be quite as good as the cover promised (which I wasn't), it's still disappointingly boring and tame. Possibly the worst thing about it is that, though it was the first horror movie entered in the Sandance festival, it brings nothing new to the horror genre. In fact, most of it is so unoriginal that you can pick out the movies being ripped off. The man of the house has a Norman Bates-like relationship with his mother (even though she's not dead), the whole story is reminiscent of Rosemary's Baby, and the Aswang POV shots are right out of Evil Dead. Not even the sexually suggestive tongue scenes are anything we haven't seen in other low-budget indie films (Re-animator and Kalifornia come to mind).
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Last House on the Left are obvious influences, but Aswang lacks the performance quality and realism that made those classics. Also, the key to good horror is mood, and Aswang does a poor job establishing it.
Those wanting to be scared won't be. Those wanting splatter will be less than satisfied, and anybody looking for nudity had best look elsewhere. On the other hand, if you're the MST3K type, you'll have immeasuable fun with Aswang.
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