Robertito (Jestoni Alercon) is a famous concert pianist who is loved by
pretty much everybody, including his fiancée Helen (Pinky Suarez), his
secretary Julie (Rita Avila), but most of all his mother Aurora (Charito
Solis). Only his brother Gabriel (Ricky Davao) can't join the others in
their everybody loves Robertito-routine, being jealous of all the
attention his brother gets - so at the first possible opportunity he
seduces Helen ... and wouldn't you know it, the two of them actually fall
in love - much to the dismay of Robertito of course, who tries to take his
own life in the process, but is given a new will to live when Julie
confesses her love to him. Life could be so happy now ... when Julie's
fiancé Jessie (Jojo Alejar) shows up - an event that leaves Robertito
once again shattered, and he soon dies in a carcrash. Now that should be
the end of this, but Robertito's mother just can't let go of him and has
his body snatched from the morgue to keep at home. Everybody thinks the
woman is mad keeping a corpse around the house, but when Gabriel confronts
her and tries to talk sense into her, she comes to all the wrong
conclusions: Instead of giving up the corpse she visits a black magician
who returns life to Robertito. Thing is of course, he is no longer the
mild-mannered pianist we all knew but a brutal zombie killing everyone in
his way - especially Helen. It all culminates in a finale on a
graveyard, where the assembled protagonists fight Roberttito and a bunch
of his zombie friends. In the end, he is staked by a crucifix, but it is
only when he pulls out the crucifix and accidently kills his mother doing
so that he really dies. In dying he becomes mild-mannered Robertito once
more, uttering his mum's name with his last breath. One can't
deny it, all of the above sounds like a quite interesting trash horror
movie, but that's the problem of the film, it only sounds good in writing,
on film, its rather feeble story is stretched to almost two hours of
running time and filled up with way too many unnecessary soap opera
sequences. Actually, the actual plot (that being Robertito being killed
and brought back to life) doesn't even start until halfway through, at
which point the film has already pretty much bored its audience to death.
I'll give the movie as much, at least the zombie attacks and the finale
are fun in a trashy and predictable sort of way, but that's too little to
save the film as a whole.
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