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Continuing in the style of Eric Khoo’s project “Folklore” where horror was combined with intense social commentary, Erik Matti presents his own omnibus, inspired by the hardships the whole world, but particularly the Philippines experienced during the pandemic, through four stories.

“Rabid” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival

The first and longest segment is titled “Bad Luck is a B*tch” and focuses on a bourgeois family of three, who end up hiring an unknown middle-aged, deaf-mute woman as their maid, after the mother of the family feels sorry for her. Despite the caution the daughter asks her parents to exercise, the two of them are happy with the cooking of the newcomer, and do not pay much caution to her. When the daughter witnesses the “deaf-mute” performing a ritual naked in their living room, the father decides to kick her out but comes across a witch...