Pagpag: Siyam na Buhay
Pagpag: Siyam na Buhay (referred to as Pagpag: Nine Lives) is a 2013 Filipino supernatural horror film directed by Frasco S. Mortiz. The film was released on December 25, 2013, at the 39th Metro Manila Film Festival and stars Kathryn Bernardo, Daniel Padilla, Paulo Avelino and Shaina Magdayao. The film follows a group of teenagers that are terrorized by an evil spirit after they do not follow the Filipino superstition called "pagpag".
Plot
Cedric and his friends Hannah, Ashley, Rico and Justin come upon the wake of Roman, husband of Lucy, which is arranged by undertaker Leni and her colleagues Dencio and Marcelo. At the wake, Marcelo sweeps the room when Eva, Lucy's older sister, scolds him as it is a bad superstition. All of the guests violate a superstition: Hannah drops tears on the coffin when she sees Cedric holding Leni's hand; Rico wipes the coffin with a handkerchief; Justin steals bread from the wake; Ashley looks at her reflection in the mirror; Cedric attends the wake with a wound; Dencio steals the money below the coffin and they all fail to do "pagpag," an act of dusting off oneself after a funeral to avoid being followed home by evil spirits.
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More details
| author | Joel M. Mercado Kren Yap |
|---|---|
| director | Frasco Mortiz |
| editor | Jerrold Tarog |
| genre | horror |
| keywords | adopted brother being followed church devil evil spirit fall follow kill learn nine lives old house older sister one night pact with the devil phone call rescue stab think trap warn |
| musicBy | Francis S. Concio |
| producer | Charo Santos-Concio Lily Y. Monteverde Malou Santos Roselle Y. Monteverde |
| productionCompany | ABS-CBN Film Productions, Inc. Regal Entertainment |
| publisher | Regal Films Star Cinema |
| theme | ghost |