A boxer, a creepy house, and a job ad from hell — what could go wrong?
It's the story of Anton, an ex-boxer who wakes up in an airless room, seemingly without any sense of direction or purpose. A fateful breeze wafts into the room; a tabloid newspaper opens to a specific page: "Help wanted." He ends up watching a dilapidated old house in the lonelier outskirts of Metro Manila.
Direction
Ilarde's suffocating atmosphere — every hallway breathes malice.
Cinematography
Metro Manila's rotting edges shot like a fever dream.
Acting
Marudo's physicality — a broken man in a breaking space.
Director
Rico Maria Ilarde
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ilarde channels Filipino folk horror through Catholic guilt — the house as purgatory, not just haunting.
The 'help wanted' ad mirrors real predatory labor practices targeting Manila's desperate underclass.
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