Katrina (Tina Ona Paukstelis) sells her yet unborn baby to Peter Null (Norman Moses), who needs a son
in order to get the inheritance from his dying mother (Flora Coker). But
when he takes Katrina home to sell her off as his wife to his mother,
she soon notices something weird's happening at he Nulls' place. It all
has to do with the fact that the Nulls are secretly Aswangs - vampiric
creatures with amazingly long tongues who feed on unborn babies, of
Fillipino origin - & they need Kat's baby to carry on the family
tradition (babies who survive an Aswang-attack beconme Aswangs
themselves). Kat does try to escape, of course, but a caring policeman (Victor
Delorenzo) takes her back to the Nulls instead once he finds her running
down the road. No sooner is she back than she is put in chains. To
escape again, she even cuts off her hand, but in the end is still caught
by Null & his housekeeper (Mildred Nierras, curiously called Cupid
in the movie), who is actually about to kill her when she has her baby,
a cute littgle Aswang. In the end - which is somewhat inexplicable -
Cupid kills both Peter Null & Kat & brings up the baby in best
Aswang-tradition).
John Kishline plays a Van Helsing-type scientist who is killed off
pretty early in the movie.
Nice little horror-movie relying equally on atmosphere & bizarre
effect work, with a good dose of gore thrown in, directed in a rather
old-fashioned way, which does work for the movie though. And of course,
how could anyone not love a movie that has
1) the main monster
strangling people with its incredibly long tongue
2) an old woman (Flora
Coker) hanging down a house facade, also on her incredibly long tongue ! |