Hair-raising. Bloodcurdling. Chilling. Horrifying. Spine-chilling movie. The Healing, a Filipino horror suspense movie directed by Chito S. Roño, starring Vilma Santos (Seth) and Kim Chiu (Cookie).
With Seth's father extremely ill, she decided to bring him to Manang Elsa, a faith healer, who healed him and prescribed a herbal medicine. As they were about to leave the place, a man, on the line of those who wants to be healed, fainted and was immediately sent to Manang Elsa. The next day, Seth was surprised upon seeing his father regain his strength again. The neighborhood was also surprised, knowing that Seth's father was already bed-ridden because of stroke. On the party, held in Seth's house, a group of her neighbors who have disease asked her if she could bring them to the faith healer. Her son also asked her if she Cookie, his half sister, could also go to the faith healer as she was suffering an illness called glomerulonephritis. As they reached Manang Elsa's house, they wer told by Melchor, Manang Elsa's brother, that she could not perform faith healing because she was sick. But because of the persistence of Seth, Manang Elsa accepted them.
The horror part then started as they went home. One by one, all of the healed neighbors died. Chona, the one who suffered from goiter, slashed her own neck with a pierced glass.Greta, the one who suffered from cyst, killed her husband by decapitating him with a sword and then committed suicide by hanging herself. Ding, a policeman who suffered from psoriasis, was forcefully shot by his co-policeman because of shooting everyone he saw.Alma, who suffered from a disease on her foot, broke into massacring her dorm mates and eventually immolates herself on fire. Cacai, the blind girl, massacred the praying monks and murdered herself by falling into a flagpole.
The movie was definitely one of a kind. It is not a typical Filipino horror movie that is predictable. in this movie, you will be shocked and surprised on what will happen next. If you want to scare yourself to death, you better watch THE HEALING.
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