Charles Aaron Salazar

Three chilling tales based on real stories expose the haunting depths of faith, fear, and the unknown — from a seafarer trapped on a cursed voyage, to an island plagued by a flesh-eating legend, and a young woman's battle against a legion of demons that pushes the limits of faith and sanity.

In the near future, Manila is an almost-utopian city, but they still believe in ghost stories. Nobody survives the mysterious blackouts that happen in random parts of the city after midnight. Nobody believes the horrors in its darkness are even real. Four friends are about to find out that you don’t need to believe, for it to come for you.

It is 1989. After losing his home, Allan Borromeo moves back into his mother’s house in Eden Homes, an upper middle class subdivision, with his wife Donna and teenage son Jasper. Here, their lives will change—Allan gets involved in a marijuana grow-op, Donna has an affair with their gardener, and Jasper experiences his first love and heartbreak. But unknown to the homeowners, a half-man, half-snake creature lurks and peers into their lives via home videos secretly recorded by Its creator, Waldo, a mad scientist.

Porferia, who is 9 months pregnant, and her husband Felix, are abducted by the military and wrongfully accused of insurgency. Porferia's wild imagination and unsinkable hope carry them through the ordeal of torture, leading to their eventual escape.

Two amateur ghost hunters are hired to surveil an alleged haunted house. Nothing much happens. But just because you can’t see the patterns of strangeness, it doesn’t mean they aren’t there.

A half-black half-Filipino Michael Jordan wanna-be sets his way towards his “hoop dreams.”

Charles, an engineering student with an eye for beauty, just returned from school to a dormitory owned by Aling Linda, a strict, lonesome widow. Other occupants of the dorm include Max–now on his 7th year in college, Sheen–his reluctant partner, Steven–a social entrepreneur, Ramon–his cop lover, Alex–a call center agent, and Jenny–his attentive girlfriend. They all spend the evening tucked away in solitary rooms, talking about collective experiences, sharing a similar fate. And rent is due.

Luna's Grandpa blames her for her father's death, said to have been caused by leptospirosis from intermingling with her poor mother. As the past continues to haunt Luna, she summons a most dreadful visitor into their home.

Kints and Charles have been together for almost a decade. One day, Kints wakes up and discovers that her lover has changed, literally. Although troubled at first, she eventually understands that what happened is a natural phenomenon. Through this, she is reminded that people change all the time and love can change people.

A narrative about being stuck in a strange mystical island. It's a landscape that's at once familiar, aggressive, drifting, odd and unexpected.