Tiktik Breaks the Bank on Opening Day

It was not entirely hard to understand when Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles grossed a whopping P10.8 million on its opening day last October 17, beating Hollywood hits that also opened on the same week. Families came in droves to see the groundbreaking horror adventure flick.

Any Filipino who grew up watching old Tagalog horror movies has fond memories of being a child watching scare flicks that made them shriek in wild abandon and lose sleep afterwards.

Constructed as a siege film and shot entirely against a green screen, Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles breaks barriers in the industry while paying homage to classic Pinoy folklore. It aims to have older viewers recall their first encounters with an aswang on the big screen while giving kids the chance to experience their first movie scare.

Leading man and main aswang buster Dingdong Dantes says that he has never seen an aswang in his life. "Thank God that I did this movie because now I know what works against them and what does not, just in case I would encounter one."

Lovi, who displays a good mix of calm and strength in the movie as pregnant mother trying to survive to save her baby, says that she has only seen aswangs in the movies. "But of course, I believe in them as much as I believe in evil existing in this world. I learned about aswangs from the stories that my mom and my aunt used to tell me. When I later saw an aswang in the movies, it really scared me."

Tiktik's writer-director Erik Matti learned about the aswang mythology from his yayas while growing up in Bacolod. "They'd usually use the aswangs as a way to put me in my place every time I get out of line." Executive producer Dondon Monteverde's curiosity about the aswang was first piqued by stories whispered about among their household help.

Tiktik differs from run-of-the-mill horror movies because it "is an edgy re-imagining of those stories from our folklore," says Dingdong. "It's a very Filipino story, armored and adorned with world-class technology that will surely leave a mark in the history of Pinoy movies."

Truly, Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles is the local cinema equivalent of a scare movie that makes you laugh with delight as you scream out of genuine terror.

A co-production venture of Reality Entertainment, Agostodos Pictures, Reality Entertainment's sister companies and post-production arms PostManila and Mothership, and GMA Films, Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles continues to pack audiences in. Don't miss out!

Tiktik Breaks the Bank on Opening Day

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