Blood is the Color of the Night, a 1964 shocker also variously known as The Blood Drinkers and The Vampire People. Vampires were not new to Filipino film, or culture. The country’s very first “talkie” feature in 1933 was Ang Aswang a.k.a. The Vampire, based on the widespread pre-Christian folkloric creature of a shape-shifter (often female, and mixing characteristics Westerners might associate with both vampires and werewolves) that particularly relishes feeding on young children and fetuses still in the womb. (They access the latter by means of grotesquely long, sucking antennae-like parts.) The aswang is a popular fantasy figure in entertainment even today.>> - Dennis Harvey...
- 10/17/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Blood is the Color of the Night, a 1964 shocker also variously known as The Blood Drinkers and The Vampire People. Vampires were not new to Filipino film, or culture. The country’s very first “talkie” feature in 1933 was Ang Aswang a.k.a. The Vampire, based on the widespread pre-Christian folkloric creature of a shape-shifter (often female, and mixing characteristics Westerners might associate with both vampires and werewolves) that particularly relishes feeding on young children and fetuses still in the womb. (They access the latter by means of grotesquely long, sucking antennae-like parts.) The aswang is a popular fantasy figure in entertainment even today.>> - Dennis Harvey...
- 10/17/2014
- Keyframe
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