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''Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles'' is a 2012 Filipino action horror comedy adventure film written and directed by Erik Matti.The film stars Dingdong Dantes, Lovi Poe, Joey Marquez, Janice de Belen and Roi Vinzon. Dingdong Dantes' company AgostoDos Pictures also served as one of the producers. The film is the first full-length Filipino film entirely shot on green screen chroma key. The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics who praised its visual effects while criticizing the plot. Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles was followed up with a sequel in Kubot: The Aswang Chronicles 2 in 2014 which was also directed by Matti. ==Plot== Makoy travels from Manila to the province of Pulupandan to visit and get back Sonia, who is pregnant with their child. While Fely, Sonia's mother, ruins Makoy's visits, Sonia's father, Nestor, and their helper, Bart, befriends Makoy. When Makoy and Nestor prepare for Sonia's birthday, Bart requests them to buy and cook a pig from his cousin Ringo, who will give them a discount. Makoy and Nestor go to the marketplace, where they are surprised by Ringo's kids. Ringo appears and apologizes, but couldn't offer a discount after an exchange of words. When Ringo leaves, Kulot, one of Ringo's sons (who knows Sonia is pregnant), sells Makoy and Nestor a young pig for a cheap price. Nestor hesitates, but Makoy agrees and buys it. Returning home, Nestor decides that Makoy should spend the night in their home, despite Fely and Sonia's disapproval. When everybody is asleep, Makoy and Nestor hear strange and familiar noises from the forest. Reminded of the aswang tales he heard before, Nestor tells Makoy to secure the house. The pig they bought from the market transforms into Kulot, who is revealed to be an aswang, and quietly enters Sonia's room to get the baby from inside her womb. Makoy and Nestor are alarmed when they hear Sonia's panicked shouting. Nestor enters the room, and Makoy grabs a huge furniture fork to impale and kill Kulot. Shocked that his nephew is an aswang, Bart is accused by Makoy to be an aswang as well. In the forest, Ringo's children - Hilda, Kulas, Mutya, and Cedric - wait for Kulot's return with the baby. As they wait impatiently, Ringo appears and tells them he is tired of moving from one province to another because of them exposing themselves as aswangs. Ringo and his children go to Sonia's house, and asks Makoy and Nestor where Kulot is. Seeing the lifeless body of Kulot, the whole family angrily transforms into tiktiks. Makoy then takes Bart hostage, and asks him to choose a side. Ringo's family gives chase as Makoy and Bart ride a jeepney into the forest. Makoy and Bart stop at a security checkpoint. Makoy tells the captain, Regalado, that people are chasing them. Regalado orders his men to check but can't find anything. Ringo and his family appears, now back in normal form, claiming that Makoy took Bart hostage. As Regalado's men point their guns at Makoy, Ringo and his family kill Regalado and his men as soon as Makoy and Bart find a truck with a gun inside; they use this to escape Ringo's family. As the truck speesd its way through the forest, Kulas tries to block them but is killed when the truck rams him in a tree, which causes him to explode. Returning to the house, Nestor has already prepared Molotovs and throws it into Ringo, slowing them down. The humans barricade themselves in the house, putting salt and garlic in every corner, window, and door. Soon after, Rex and his son, Abel, invited visitors to Sonia's birthday, arrive. Nestor tells them to get inside, but Rex is killed by Ringo, and Makoy only manages to save Abel. Ringo sends Hilda and Cedric to search for openings outside the house, and they find a window that is not barricaded. Meanwhile, Sonia goes into labor. Hilda and Cedric enter the house and attack Sonia, but Fely attacks Cedric and is mortally wounded in the process. Nestor, enraged, kills Cedric by slicing his throat. Fely tells Nestor her final words and advises him to not allow Makoy to marry Sonia. Hilda is killed by Makoy. Having been bitten by Hilda in the woods, Bart begins to transform into an aswang. Sonia is about to deliver her baby when a horde of people, led by Ringo's father, Tatang, arrives. Ringo apologizes to his father for his children's deaths, but Tatang kills him instead. Tatang releases a bird from his mouth and he and his group transform into an army of tiktiks. Bart chooses to stay behind in order to buy time for Makoy, Sonia, Abel, and Nestor to escape. As the tiktiks assault the house, Bart manages to kill some of them using molotovs, but when he is overwhelmed, he decides to blow up the house instead, incinerating himself and most of the Tiktiks. Makoy enters a sari-sari store and confronts the store owner, Pacing. Pacing tells them she has a business with salt farming which can aid them on their fight. Makoy helps Sonia deliver the baby while Nestor crafts the weapons they will use. Sonia is successful on delivering her child, but the cry of the baby attracts Tatang who is searching the house. Makoy, Nestor and Abel, wanting to avenge his father, decide to stay and battle Tatang's army, while Sonia and Pacing escape. After a long brutal fight, Makoy and Nestor narrowly defeat the tiktiks using a whip coated with salt and garlic. Tatang then transforms into a demonic winged creature and grabs the baby, but Sonia throws salt in the air which wounds Tatang. Makoy then whips him one last time and kills him. The survivors then rest and celebrate as a new day emerges. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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