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Photo: Mat sees. . .dumb movies about dead people!

Mag-ingat Ka Sa. . .Kulam (Beware of. . .Voodoo), written and directed by Jun Lana, starring Judy Ann Santos, Dennis Trillo, and TJ Trinidad.

Ernie: Why is there an ellipsis in the title?
Grungella: I. . .don’t know.
Big Bird: Mag-ingat ka sa. . .silip! (Dennis Trillo’s character goes to bed wearing boxers and pajamas.) Dennis, mag-ingat ka sa. . .akin!

(Onscreen) TJ Trinidad: Hindi mo ba ako. . .naaalala?
(Offscreen) Ernie: Ako, gusto kitang. . .maalala!

Grungella: Mag-ingat ka sa. . .continuity gaffes! (Characters inexplicably change costume within the same sequence. In one scene, Dennis Trillo gets out of bed with dark stripes on his left arm, like tire tracks. He walks through the door and voila! Tire tracks vanish.)

Ernie: Mag-ingat ka sa. . .acting ng mangkukulam! (The evil mother character wasn’t scary, but the deep-voice, big-hair, eyeball-rolling performance of the actress was.)

Onscreen, the blind child character has a successful eye transplant.
Child: Nakakakita na ako! Gusto kong makakakita ng. . .eclipse!

Big Bird: Ang ganda ng. . .outfits ni Juday! (We stuck around for the closing credits to see whose clothes she was wearing, but there was no mention of the designer. We like Juday because even with the most asinine material she can pull off a couple of good moments.)

Grungella: Mag-ingat ka sa. . .Mag-Ingat Ka Sa Kulam!

Portentous silliness, inept storytelling—the filmmakers lose track of their own plot (Did the mamaw commit suicide or was she killed?), scary bits shamelessly ripped off from The Ring, The Grudge, The Eye, etc. The Saturday night audience was really into it, though, judging from all the screaming in the theatre. Or maybe they just wanted their money back.

Favorite comedy sketch in my house: Ang Spoiled from Bubble Gang, starring Ogie Alcasid as Angelina the brat and Michael V as her yaya. It’s hysterical! Perfectly-observed and well-acted—Ogie and Bitoy aren’t just wearing dresses, they are the kid and the yaya.