Maria Labo

Maria Labo is one the worst film ever made by Filipino. In the vein of Plan 9 From Outerspace and The Room, it deserve a cult following. It's a horror dra movie turned riot comedy.

It's based on a true legend of Aswang. The concept is literary scary but the film is hilariously funny at best.

The acting is hilariously bad, watch-out for unintentional language, Maria's accent is overrated. There are many scenes full stupidity that it feels like a gag. I laughed throughout the film. The direction is solidly terrible that the director don't know where the story is going. So as the production.

Over all it's a film I recommend to watch with your friends.It maybe awful but it's awfulness is satisfying at best!

I must have been so insulted to actually write a review about this garbage.

The supporting cast is superb and full of talent.

Quite the opposite that can be said to the lead star "Maria Labo" (Kate Brios). She should quit using her connections to trashy, below mediocre level directors just to land on iconic roles such as this. Instead, she should do workshop and actually better her anemic acting. Also, a truck load of prayer.

-Bad cultural appropriation of hiligaynon accent.

-Bad directing.

-Bad audio, visuals, scoring, and music.

-Bad production.

-Bad storyline.

THIS MOVIE IS GARBAGE.

It's a movie that set back Philippine cinema decades. It's so bad I would rather sit through a root canal. This is a story of an urban myth that an overseas Filipino worker got infected or possessed by a demon, coming back to her home country half person half monster. There are numerous scenes that left me wondering why it was part of the movie (pool scene), and the editing was so bad some of the dialogue was not dubbed properly. The story had potential if only the filmmakers knew what to do.

The makeup was bad, the props were bad, the details were all wrong. What is even worse is that the story did not have to literally show a monster, the director could have just shown a change in behavior but then subtleties like that can only be managed by real filmmakers. Why did I watch this? simply because I watch almost all films when I have the time and I just had the misfortune of sitting through this one.

Writers of the movie plaigarized Marie Catherine Laveau (September 10, 1801 - June 15, 1881) who was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, herbalist and midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II (1827 - c. 1862), also practiced rootwork, conjure, Native American and African spiritualism as well as Louisiana Voodoo and traditional Roman Catholicism. An alternate spelling of her name, Laveaux, is considered by historians to be from the original French spelling.

There is much to explain about the Filipino urban legend's origin story- unless the writers ran out of authenticity and originality.