Shake, Rattle & Roll 2k5

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Shake, Rattle & Roll 2k5
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by
  • Uro Q. dela Cruz (segment "Poso")
  • Rico Maria Ilarde (segment "Aquarium")
  • Richard Somes (segment "Lihim ng San Joaquin")
Screenplay by
  • Joven Tan (segments "Poso" and "Lihim ng San Joaquin")
  • Dondon Monteverde (segment "Poso")
  • Aloy Adlawan (segment "Aquarium")
  • Rico Maria Ilarde (segment "Aquarium")
  • Richard Somes (segment "Lihim ng San Joaquin")
Story by
  • Joven Tan (segment "Poso")
  • Dondon Monteverde (segment "Poso")
  • Aloy Adlawan (segment "Aquarium")
  • Rico Maria Ilarde (segment "Aquarium")
  • Richard Somes (segment "Lihim ng San Joaquin")
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography
  • Nap Jamir (segments "Poso" and "Lihim ng San Joaquin")
  • Louie Quirino (segment "Aquarium")
Edited by
  • Jay Halili
  • Dave Hukom
Music byVon de Guzman
Production
companies
Distributed byRegal Home Video
Release date
  • December 25, 2005 (2005-12-25)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryPhilippines
LanguageFilipino

Shake, Rattle & Roll 2k5 (also known as Shake, Rattle & Roll VII or Shake, Rattle & Roll 7) is a 2005 Filipino comedy horror anthology film produced by Regal Entertainment, and the seventh installment of the Shake, Rattle & Roll film series. It is an official entry to the 2005 Metro Manila Film Festival.

Contents

The eighth installment, Shake, Rattle and Roll 8 , was released in 2006.

Plot

"Poso"

An unnamed Ispiritista, a fake occultist, retires from the business of communicating with the dead when her last job goes terribly wrong. When a wealthy grandmother promises the Ispiritista and her group; Jay, Gener, and Frida a huge fee to contact her dead grandson Lucas, they immediately accept and take it as their last job. The grandmother wants to talk to Lucas the next day, because it will be his death anniversary.

After strange and paranormal occurrences haunt them at midnight, the Ispiritista, along with Laila, the grandmother's caretaker, found out that Lucas was killed by his grandmother, and was buried alive under the construction of the waterpump. Lucas' spirit then drags the grandmother into a pool of blood.

The Ispiritista, Jay, and Laila successfully escape but realize that Frida and Gener fell victim to the waterpump.

"Aquarium"

Janice and her husband Benjie, along with their son Paul, and their maid Aciana just moved into a new condo unit. Benjie finds an aquarium with a mask that was left behind by the previous tenants where Janice becomes suspicious of the aquarium. After this, Janice meets an old lady warning her not to touch the aquarium. At night, Janice takes a bath when she notices a monstrous hand peeking through the door which quickly vanishes. As she finishes her bath, she finds a couple of goldfish in the toilet, scaring her as Benjie arrives. When she tells Benjie what happened, the goldfishes disappeared.

One day, when Benjie leaves, the old lady returned and warns Janice again to not touch the aquarium. After this, she finds that their ceiling starts to leak. She enters Paul's bedroom where Benjie and Paul finished filling up the aquarium with water. She becomes suspicious when there were goldfish in the aquarium. When midnight comes, Janice and Benjie are asleep when water starts to leak onto her. When she goes to the aquarium, she finds that all of the goldfish are dead as she screams. Benjie calls a plumber named Alex to fix the leakage. Janice tries to put the dead goldfish away when she notices the old lady from before. Janice tries to follow her to a room where she cannot enter.

As Alex tries to fix the leakage, seaweeds start to come out from the mask as it tries to shake the ladder off to make Alex fall. When he tries to grab his flashlight, his arm gets grabbed by the seaweed into the aquarium. The monstrous hand from before rises behind Paul, who is in the bathtub playing and starts to drown him. At the same time, Alex drowns to death while Janice saves Paul in the bathtub. Janice hears Aciana's screams as they see the drowned Alex's corpse, making Janice scream in horror.

The police arrived as they investigate Alex's death. Janice tries to tell Benjie about the old lady who tries to warn them not to touch the aquarium, as they go to the old lady's room. When Aciana puts Paul to sleep, the old lady appears behind the door, staring at the sleeping Paul. Janice wakes up to go to Paul's bedroom where a scared Paul tells her that he saw the old lady telling him that her father and son had been drowned by the cursed aquarium. After which, Paul stays behind his bedroom as Janice tries to put the mask from the aquarium away, informing Aciana to get the mask away from their condo unit. Paul plays with his ball in his bed when suddenly, water starts to rise from the aquarium. Janice finds a mallet to destroy the aquarium. Aciana is still holding the mask, interested thinking what to do with it. The possessed mask then suddenly attacks her mid-air, possessing her body.

As the water starts to rise inside his bedroom, Paul tries to open the door but the door was jammed as he screams for his mother for help. Janice tries to break the doorknob with the mallet. Paul still screams for his mother for help as the water starts to rise higher. Janice tries to break the doorknob again only to be stopped by the mask-wearing Aciana, who forcefully throws her to the ground. Benjie arrives at the condo to find out what happened to them. Paul, still trapped in his water-filled bedroom, then encounters a sea creature resembling a Siyokoy coming out of the water. It was revealed that the creature was the old lady's drowned son. Benjie climbs up to their condo unit, as he knocks the possessed Aciana with a vase. Janice tells Benjie that Paul was stilled trapped inside his bedroom. Benjie goes to the vents to save his son inside the bedroom. Benjie then destroys the aquarium as a portal sucks all of the water out and the creature. Afterwards, Janice, Benjie, and Paul reconcile.

"Lihim ng San Joaquin"

A married couple settle on a village so isolated that even the carabao cart driver refused to enter, leaving them to walk to the town on their own. They were then welcomed by the villagers, who, unbeknownst to them are aswangs . As the couple starts to notice the dark secrets behind the villagers and a man who warns them that he became a slave to the villagers, they try to leave the village only to be surrounded by the aswangs.

They fend off the aswangs, as they eventually exit the village, but not after killing aswangs, including the leader.

After killing the leader of the aswangs, the couple now exit the village.

Cast

Accolades

YearAward-Giving BodyCategoryRecipientResult
2005 Metro Manila Film Festival [1] Best Child Performer Paul Salas Won

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References

  1. "Metro Manila Film Festival:2005". IMDb. Retrieved April 9, 2014.