Shake, Rattle & Roll XV is a 2014 Filipino horror anthology film directed by Dondon Santos, Jerrold Tarog, and Perci Intalan, and the fifteenth installment of the Shake, Rattle & Roll film series. The film stars an ensemble cast including Erich Gonzales, JC de Vera, Carla Abellana, Dennis Trillo, Lovi Poe, Matteo Guidicelli, and John Lapus.
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Running time | 127 minutes |
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| Language | Filipino |
The film was produced by Regal Entertainment, Inc. The film is an official entry in the 40th Metro Manila Film Festival and was released on December 25, 2014, in Philippine cinemas nationwide. It is the first Filipino full-length film entirely shot on a real airplane as the main setting for the third and final segment "Flight 666". It is also the most expensive installment in the film series,[2] although the film's co-producer Lily Monteverde stated "she doesn't want to reveal its exact budget yet".[3]
The sixteenth and final installment, Shake, Rattle & Roll Extreme, was released in 2023.
Plot
edit"Ahas"
editThe episode is a retelling of the urban legend about the human-snake hybrid said to live underneath Robinsons Galleria.
Troy's wife Adela is locked at Alegria Mall's department store dressing room and is killed by a snake creature. Troy suddenly wakes up after a nightmare about his wife’s death.
Fashion designer Iggy Moda is planning to organize an event culminating Alegria Mall's Silver Anniversary. To make the mall's anniversary very special, Iggy conceptualizes fashion collection and mall's new logo, but at the same time, thinks of reviving rumors about Alegria Mall's alleged half-human half-snake lurking somewhere deep in the mall which has been the reason of the disappearances of some shoppers. Sarah, the half-human half snake, looks out in the vent and sees Troy, in whom she fall in love and becomes obsessed. Along with the mall's 25th anniversary is Sandra Alegria's 25th birthday. Coming back from the United States, she welcomes the new members as part of the mall company's board of officers and as the head of the company. Sandra also denies the rumors circulating between her and her alleged twin snake sister.
A shoplifter steals clothes and items from the department store by wearing multiple shirts. A saleswoman picks up on her behavior and takes her to a dressing room, which she secretly locks. After she finishes putting them on in the dressing room, she hears trembling sounds and feels movement, and discovers a chamber. She is then killed by Sarah. After she kills the shoplifter, she tells her evil self that she met someone named Troy, but her evil self insists that she will never be loved because of her appearance. Troy strolls around the mall while still grieving and finding answers to his wife's disappearance until he finds himself in front of the department store where he last saw his wife. He tries to open the dressing room door where his wife last went to, but is stopped by the same saleslady who had locked the shoplifter inside.
Meanwhile, security guards and staff members check the premises as the mall closes. Janitor Mang Banjo takes his cleaning rounds to Sarah's chamber and nervously cleans the mess carefully and silently. Sarah calls him as he tries to retreat to the elevator. Mang Banjo carefully communicates with Sarah to avoid angering her, but Sarah becomes furious when she notices that he continues to avoid eye contact. Sarah turns the janitor around in front of her to make him face her, and he rushes to the lift. However, Sarah escapes with him, and the old man realizes that it was a trick. Mang Banjo immediately calls the twins' father Alberto, who then prepares a handgun to meet Sarah. Meanwhile, Jake sees Sarah in the dark in the department store wearing a dress, and recognizes her at first as Sandra. He runs away as he sees Sarah transform into a snake with arms, and is killed when Sarah catches up to him.
Alberto talks to Sandra about Sarah's escape from her chamber. Then he later tells her that he just wanted to have good luck; a witch doctor had handed him a vial containing medicine which could bring good luck to his mall business. He tricks their mother, Lourdes, into drinking the medicine concealed in wine, which results in her giving birth to Sarah and Sandra. Lourdes believes Sarah to be a curse and wishes her killed, but Alberto keeps Sarah under the mall's basement, due to his belief that she can bring good luck to the family and the business. Sarah was fed at first with animals, until she tasted human blood when a construction worker accidentally fell into the chamber. Sandra remembers visiting Sarah ever since their childhood until they said their goodbyes to each other. Alberto then plans to kill Sarah once and for all. Meanwhile, Troy returns to his house and gets a knife, plotting revenge to kill Sarah before returning to the mall.
Back at the mall, Iggy officially unveils his masterpiece, a statue resembling the alleged half-human half-snake as part of the anniversary. Alberto arrives and orders Iggy to remove the image, fearing that it will ruin the mall's reputation. Alberto, Sandra, and Mang Banjo hurriedly return to the chamber, hoping to stop Sarah from her evil plans. Sarah shows up and is glad, believing that Alberto returned to introduce her to everyone, especially Troy. Meanwhile, Troy separately enters the dressing room and finds the secret chamber. Meanwhile, Alberto argues with Sarah and that he despises her, and then Sandra steps into Sarah's view and the two briefly reunite. Alberto and Sandra continue to argue with her, telling her that she had caused chaos and that she needs to stop. Sarah becomes enraged when she realizes that she is not planned to be a part of the mall anniversary, and claims that Alberto became greedy. Alberto draws his gun and tries in vain to shoot Sarah as she transforms fully into a snake, and is captured when Sarah binds him by her tail. He is then thrown by Sarah and dies after hitting his head on a bathtub rim.
Taking advantage of the commotion, Troy stabs Sarah in the back of her lower snake body, enraging her. Sandra, Troy, and Mang Banjo hurriedly escape the chamber; the trio then warns Iggy and the board members to leave the mall before they seek shelter in a hardware store to find more weapons. At the store, Sandra learns from Troy that Sarah killed his wife. They return to the mall and Sandra goes alone to find Sarah, and tries to bargain with her to figure out a new life together. Troy attempts to sneak-attack Sarah with his knife, but she knocks him down and then swallows him whole. While in her snake stomach, Troy kills Sarah from inside and then cuts his way out using his knife, leaving Sandra heartbroken and guilty.
"Ulam"
editCold couple, Aimee and Henry move to their Ama Choleng's mansion after she dies. They meet the caretaker of the house, Aling Lina. Aimee and Henry are fed by Lina, food. While eating, Aimee accidentally chews a lizard's tail. Disgusted by this, they all dismissed one another and proceeds to their bedroom. Each time they eat every meal Lina serves, they are being transformed from normal human beings, to animals (based on their Chinese zodiac animal) and cause conflict in their household.
"Flight 666"
editDave boards Manila Air Flight 666, traveling from Manila to Zamboanga. On board are two vloggers and rockstars band Eli and Gino, who are flying to their home province for a concert; their fans, best friends Adam and Lovely coincidentally board the flight. Also among the passengers are celebrity vlogger and television show host Tim, socialite father and son Macoy and Macky, baggage handling supervisor Carlos, and Jane, who is pregnant, along with her grandmother Juling. In the first class cabin are socialite Connie and married couple Brandon and Miranda. Passengers are welcomed by flight attendant Bryan and are accommodated by co-flight attendants Pamela and Karen. Karen suddenly bumps into Dave, her ex-boyfriend, and apologizes for their past, but Dave ignores her.
While the plane takes off, Juling insists Jane to pretend that she fell in love with a foreigner as soon as they arrive home, which later turns out that she fell in love with a creature and is the father of their baby "tiyanak". After the plane reaches its cruising altitude, Carlos instigates a hijacking, interrogating the crew in the flight deck in protest over the airline laying off employees as part of cost-cutting strategy and demands the airline wire money to compensate for the affected parties. Connie overhears the chaos and hides in one of the lavatories only to find the couple doing a mile high club, whom she urges to calm down and stop their acts out of fear of being killed. Meanwhile, Jane gives birth to her baby creature and suddenly passes out along with the baby. The plane suddenly goes into a short turbulence and faints almost everyone on board, except for Juling, who dies. Unknown to them, the creature lurks out and scratches some of the passengers. Karen later overhears a conversation between Carlos and Pamela, which she realizes Pamela helps in making Carlos' plans succeed.
In the lavatory, Miranda fights with Connie until the tiyanak comes out of nowhere and kills Brandon, Connie, Miranda and the rest of the passengers on board one by one, including Pamela, Eli, Macoy and Macky and another passenger. The remaining passengers seek safety, except for Adam. Capt. Robert Francisco tasks Bryan and Officer Charlie to check on the situation on board. Meanwhile, Adam is strangled by the creature's umbilical cord while Carlos fights the creature with a gun and is killed by it. The creature attacks the flight deck and strangles the pilot. Karen, Bryan, Dave and the remaining passengers make a plan to safety as Tim and Bryan fly the plane after losing the pilots. Gino and Lovely discovers a bomb planted underneath the seats by Carlos which is ready to detonate. Karen finds the child on the floor and picks it up, while Dave throws it away from her before it transforms again into a tiyanak. Karen, Dave, Gino and Lovely run out to safety, but the creature traps Karen and Dave. Coincidentally, Iggy wakes up and is attacked by the creature.
After the flight lands safely, the creature attacks again and kills Lovely. Karen, Dave, Gino, Tim and Bryan escape the plane as it explodes, killing the creature. As the survivors tell their story to the authorities, Karen and Dave walk away together as the father of the creature vengefully appears behind them in the distance. After the credits, Iggy is shown to have survived the explosion.
Cast
editAhas
edit- Erich Gonzales as Sandra/Sarah
- JC de Vera as Troy
- Ariel Rivera as Alberto
- John Lapus as Iggy
- Lou Veloso as Badjo
- Alice Dixson as Lourdes
- Giselle Canlas as Jinny
- Melai Cantiveros as Julie
- Jason Francisco as Jake
- Angie Ferro† as Albularyo
- Mosang as Saleslady 1
- Anne Monique Villanueva as Saleslady 2
- Solenn Heussaff as Adela
Ulam
edit- Dennis Trillo as Henry
- Carla Abellana as Aimee
- Chanda Romero as Aling Lina
- John Lapus as Iggy
- Perla Bautista as Amah Choleng
- Kryshee Grengia as Julie
- Yogo Singh as Paolo
- Richard Quan as Young Angkong
- Cris Villonco as Young Amah
- Anna Luna as Young Aling Lina
Flight 666
edit- Lovi Poe as Karen
- Matteo Guidicelli as Dave
- John Lapus as Iggy Moda
- Daniel Matsunaga as Bryan
- Bernard Palanca as Carlos
- Kiray Celis as Lovely
- IC Mendoza as Adam
- Kim Atienza as Tim
- Nathalie Hart as Pamela
- Lui Manansala as Lola Juling
- Ria Garcia as Jane
- Khalil Ramos as Gino
- Yael Yuzon as Eli
- Bentong† as Macoy
- Betong Sumaya as Macky
- Rolando Inocencio as Capt. Robert Francisco
- Joy Viado† as Connie
- John Spainhour as Brandon
- Arlene Muhlach as Miranda
- Sue Prado as Norma
- Ken Alfonso as First Officer Charlie
- Rocky Salumbides as the Maligno/Tiyanak's father
Production
editMaja Salvador was originally chosen for the lead role in the "Ahas" segment, until she was replaced by Erich Gonzales.[4] The snake-skin costume for the character of Gonzales measures 20 feet long and takes about five hours to fully apply the costume's prosthetics onto her.[5] Almost the whole segment of "Flight 666" was shot on board a retired Philippine Airlines Airbus A330 parked at Villamor Airbase.[6] Lovi Poe, the leading actress of the segment, stated that they filmed it while the plane was flying.[7] Filming of "Ulam" wrapped on November 1, 2014.[8]
Release
editBox office
editShake, Rattle & Roll XV opened at 6th place in the box office out of the eight films in the 40th Metro Manila Film Festival.[9]
Accolades
editAwards and nominations
edit| Award-Giving Body | Category | Recipient | Result |
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| 40th Metro Manila Film Festival | Best Float | Shake, Rattle & Roll XV | Nominated |
| Best Sound Recording | Wild Sound ("Ulam" episode) | Nominated | |
| Best Musical Score | Von De Guzman ("Flight 666" episode) | Nominated | |
| Best Child Performer | Kryshee Grengia ("Ulam" episode) | Nominated | |
| Best Make Up Artist | "Ulam" episode | Nominated | |
| Best Visual Effects | Imaginary Friends ("Ahas" episode) | Nominated | |
| Best Editor | Benjamin Tolentino ("Flight 666" episode) | Nominated | |
| Best Supporting Actress | Chanda Romero ("Ulam" episode) | Nominated | |
| Best Director | Jerrold Tarog ("Ulam" episode) | Nominated | |
| Best Actress | Erich Gonzales ("Ahas" episode), Carla Abellana ("Ulam" episode) | Nominated |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Padero, Benjamin. "the 15th shake". benjaminpadero.com. WordPress.com. Archived from the original on December 12, 2014. Retrieved November 10, 2014.
- ^ Aguilera, Pau (November 25, 2014). "Still shaking, rattling and rolling". Tempo. Archived from the original on November 30, 2014. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
- ^ Nardo, Jun (November 21, 2014). "I KNOW BETTER: Mother Lily, nagka-Alzheimer sa budget ng SRR-XV!". Abante Online (in English and Filipino). Monica Publishing Corporation. Archived from the original on December 7, 2014. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
- ^ Nardo, Jun (July 23, 2014). "Jodi, tumangging maging 'ahas' kay Angel!". Abante Online (in English and Filipino). Monica Publishing Corporation. Archived from the original on December 7, 2014. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
- ^ Calderon, Nora (November 23, 2014). "Erich Gonzales, sampung taon pang magiging single". Balita (in English and Filipino). Balita – Tagalog Newspaper Tabloid. Archived from the original on December 9, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
- ^ "Matteo Guidicelli did his own stunts for Shake Rattle and Roll XV "Flight 666"". Philippine Entertainment Portal. PEP.ph Philippine Entertainment Portal Inc. October 10, 2014. Archived from the original on October 18, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
- ^ Calderon, Nora (November 23, 2014). "Lovie Poe, napapraning kapag sumasakay ng eroplano". Balita (in English and Filipino). Balita – Tagalog Newspaper Tabloid. Archived from the original on December 9, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
- ^ Padero, Benjamin. "end of roll". benjaminpadero.com. WordPress.com. Archived from the original on December 21, 2014. Retrieved November 10, 2014.
- ^ Lo, Ricky (December 26, 2014). "Record-setting take for Metro filmfest". The Philippine Star. Philstar. Archived from the original on December 26, 2014. Retrieved December 26, 2014.