From award-winning filmmakers Michiko Yamamoto (writer of the excellent tearjerker Magnifico), Jade Castro (director of the charming love story Endo), and Raymond Lee (writer of box-office gems Anak, Milan and In My Life, and producer of Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros), comes a one-of-a-kind thriller/comedy/coming-of-age story about a curse, gay zombies, and a boy’s journey into gayhood and back—while being chased by a pink pashmina and a congregation of dead Diano Ross lookalikes.
The film is Zombadings 1: Patayin sa Shokot si Remington which opens in theaters nationwide this August 31. This is the first output from the all-writers group Origin8 Media and headlines an extremely winsome cast composed of young stars and veterans: Lauren Young, Janice de Belen, John Regala, Angelina Kanapi, Kerbie Zamora, Leandro Baldemor, Daniel Fernando and launches to stardom 21-year-old Martin Escudero as Remington. Comedy royalty Roderick Paulate and Eugene Domingo portraying pivotal roles, lend an extra dash of fabulousness to a film brimming with first rate performances.
Zombadings 1: Patayin sa Shokot si Remington brought the house down when it premiered to a full-packed CCP Main Theater last July as the closing film of the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival. It was hailed by critics, and getting good nods in the acting department were Roderick and Eugene.
The film also got the highest grade – an A – from the Cinema Evaluation Board (CEB) which described the film as a “thoroughly entertaining and hilarious offbeat comedy that presents a very different story – one which Philippine cinema needs in these days of when formulaic films dominate the movie fare of today” and “incredible achievement with an amusing and rare synergy of horror, comedy, satire and drama.”
The CEB also wrote, “undeniably, the film is worthy of all the critical attention that it will surely reap. The young filmmakers are to be congratulated for this enjoyable and original concept which wasn’t afraid to take it to its humorous extremes.”
Zombadings 1: Patayin sa Shokot si Remington has received a PG-13 rating from the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) without any cuts. The makers are very grateful that the MTRCB recognized their intention and the novelty of their concept. “We got the rating that we wanted and the approval means that we can reach and entertain more people,” says producer Raymond Lee.
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