An Official Entry to the Metro Manila Film Festival
THE STRANGERS Synopsis
Twins Pat (Julia Montes) and Max (Enrique Gil), on the day before their 18th birthday go on their annual out of town trip to the far flung town of Murcia. Joining them are their parents Roy (Johnny Revilla) and Evelyn (Cherry Pie Picache), their grandfather Pete (Jaime Fabregas), his temporary caregiver Paloma (Janice De Belen) and their newly hired family driver, Toning (Nico Antonio).
The family sets aside their differences with each other and goes on the trip, as they look forward to the provincial excursion.
Treading the rough roads of the countryside, their happiness is cut short when their van hits an old lady on the road. Unsure of what happened, the family tries to search for the body but it is nowhere to be found.
With the body missing, and protesting their innocence, Roy quickly asks everyone to go aboard the van and leave the vicinity. The van silently trudges its way along the dusty road but mysteriously stops after a few minutes in the middle of a forested area.
And from then on, as night set in, the family is hounded by bad luck. Toning is attacked by an unknown creature, Roy and Lolo Pete gets missing, and the rest of the family members are stranded in the middle of nowhere.
Lost and confused, the remaining family members unites but things take turn for the worst, when they realize that they are trapped in a barrio full of mysterious people and happenings.
As they are stuck in the isolated village, a series of aswang attack begins. Pat finds alliance and connection in the unlikely form of Dolfo (Enchong Dee), an enigmatic young man.
As the small barrio is attacked by the relentless aswang, Pat and Dolfo, together with Max, Evelyn and Paloma, and the rest of the villagers, battle it out for survival, in the hopes of making it through the next morning, alive and undead.
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BERNICE (Vice
Ganda) & DETTY (Ai-Ai Delas
Alas) are half siblings whose rivalry dates back when they were young, wild,
and free. Things got worse when their father died. Detty’s family refused to
extend any help Bernice’s family. Hatred turned to loathing, which led to their
bitter separation.
Years later, Bernice becomes the super successful lord of
apparels industry. His kabangisan
matches nobody. He has just recently fired his 74th assistant. Yet
despite this, he is the caring godfather to Angelo (Daniel Padilla). On the other hand, Detty falls from riches
to rags when she has decided to leave her womanizer husband. She’s with her two
loving daughters Kathy (Kathryn
Bernardo) & Cindy (Xyriel
Manabat). However, she badly needs a high-paying stable job especially now that
her husband is out to claim custody from her.
Meanwhile, the bitter rival of Bernice’s company is
currently posing a strong competition against them. And this is being headed by
no other than the eccentric yet equally brilliant & talented ROSELLE(Kris Aquino). With the competition
getting tougher, Bernice direly needs an assistant to help him get by.
Timing is indeed playful when Detty applies to be his 75th
assistant. Realizing that he is hiring his sister, Bernice accepts Detty as his
executive assistant without Detty knowing the truth. For Detty, the job is for
her daughters. But for Bernice, it’s payback time.
Bernice
makes Detty do all the difficult and impossible tasks. But Detty doesn’t seem
to be affected at all. In fact, she does her work well which leads to Bernice’s
company becoming better than Roselle’s!
This makes Roselle
furious – even angrier when her father wants Detty for their company.
Until Bernice cannot take more of Detty. Things get out
of hand when Detty finds out that Bernice is her long-lost sibling. He fires
her. Now jobless, she takes on a new job in – of all companies in this world – Roselle’s! Roselle, out of too much
fury, starts to brew up crazy plans on how to get rid of Detty out of her
sight.
With the rivalry
getting tougher and more intense than ever & severely affecting each
other’s intertwined lives, who among Bernice, Detty, & Roselle will emerge victorious?
GRACE GABRIEL (Angel Locsin) is a loving
single mother who would do everything for her son BOTCHOK. All seems well,
especially with her boyfriend TRISTAN
AGCAOILI (Zanjoe Marudo) supporting her. Nothing can possibly go wrong, except
for this rare blood condition that Botchok has been suffering. When his
condition becomes more severe, Grace is left with no other choice but to
reconnect with the biological father, someone she’s most anxious to meet.
Grace finds
the father. EDWARD MENDOZA (Dingdong
Dantes) is an accomplished man married with a more successful power woman JACQUELINE (Angelica Panganiban). All
Grace asks from Edward is for him to help her save Botchok, their son. Edward
is hesitant at first but Jacq gives him permission. However, such tedious
process of curing Botchok starts to taint their happy relationships, for
unwanted feelings in the past start to creep in. Until eventually all other
options fail… except only for one – Edward & Grace need to have another
child to permanently cure Botchok… and they need to do it the natural way.
Jacq, being the feisty protective
wife, vehemently objects. Edward, troubled, starts to feel more for his own
son. Tristan, in this kind of peculiar situation, doesn’t know where to place
himself. Grace, the very devoted mother that she is, becomes more desperate in
saving her son and vows to do anything. Until the 4 of them are left with no
other choice…
But Jacq insists
that it has to be “under her terms”. Edward, Tristan, and most specially Grace,
who are all helpless, oblige. This may be, after all, the best solution…
…or so they
all think. For when all means have failed them, relationships start to crumble.
Their intertwined lives get severely affected.
In this
kind of pursuit, who will eventually win – the wife who would go for a kill
just to protect and save her faltering marriage with the husband who she feels
is starting to love somebody else?... Or the mother who would do everything and
anything to save her son even if it means compromising her relationship with
the man who truly loves him?