A 2-part original movie featuring Scorpio: An aging photographer seeks the powers of an ancient Chinese potion and turns into a hunk of a man to win the love of a sensual young maiden. But choices made might lead to a miserable and tragic picture, and, Aswang: A woman with very little means adopted a stray dog who transforms into an Aswang to protect her from danger.
Practical Effects
Aswang transformation effects gloriously refuse to apologize for their budget.
Acting
Ivana Alawi commits fully to body horror and maternal terror.
Writing
Two wildly different moral frameworks in one tight anthology.
Director
Erin Pascual
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sitsit revives the Philippine 'aswang' legend specifically as a protective maternal figure rather than purely predatory, flipping centuries of folklore.
The two directors deliberately contrasted male and female gazes—Scorpio's segment leers while Aswang's protects, and both end in ruin.
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