Alyx Ayn Arumpac's debut documentary feature 'Aswang' examines the impact of the Filipino government's "war on drugs." By Neil Young A quietly nightmarish vision of dystopian social breakdown, Alyx ...

The Academy awarded its top prize to the documentary “for its painful examination of current realities, and a sober reminder that cinema is a powerful social mirror.” The film was also the most ...

In Filipino folklore, ‘aswang’ refers to a fearsome range of shape-shifting monsters – vampires, ghouls, weredogs, and more – that stalk the streets by night. These spirits haunt countless tales and ...

Reading Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” (1897) in high school was a revelation. First, the novel did not translate accurately into the many film versions I have seen. Second, the novel was presented in ...

We live among humans finding love and family … and we’re monstrous creatures who crave flesh and murder. We contain multitudes. — Marisol, siren Surely, “The Great Filipino American Aswang Pageant” ...

Filipinos are familiar with the aswang, a shape-shifting creature of Philippine folklore that preys on animals and humans at night. But while Filipinos' belief in other superstitions has waned over ...

Aswang is a horror movie in the sense that it draws us, wide-eyed, through a landscape of horrors, led either by a roving activist pastor or a young, tresilient Virgil by the name of Jomari, who ...

MANILA, Philippines – The Filipino folk creature “aswang” would make its appearance in NBC’s fantasy-detective series “Grimm” – and it may even be scarier than Filipinos imagined it. When Filipinos ...