“Zombadings: Patayin Sa Shokot Si Remington” is an indie film selected for Cinemalay 2011, directed by Jade Castro, featuring Roderick Paulate, Janice De Belen, Eugene Domingo, John Regala, Lauren Young, Kerbie Zamora and Martin Escudero.
The film was inspired by an event when one of the screenwriters was on a trip and encountered a boy who made fun of his homosexuality, thus the story revolves about a boy who taunted a witchdoctor for being gay and was cursed by the time of his coming of age. At the same time when the boy started showing signs of homosexuality (smooth skin, change in language, attraction to men, etc.), an anti-gay murderer was on the loose. One unfaithful day the murderer attacked the gay witchdoctor whose assistant revived all the murderer’s victims, hence the title “Zombadings”. Zombies ran havoc around their once peaceful town and the only way to reverse the spell (and the boys curse) was to convince a full fledge man to turn gay.
The movie is pretty new, in a way that it doesn’t really follow the usual Filipino movies, especially indie films, which are usually centred on poverty, homosexuality or just pure seriousness. The genre of the film is comedy, I would say that I had lots of laughs watching the film, but I was expecting more pain around my cheeks and ribs since I’ve been hearing a lot about this movie, it’s filled with top comedians and screenwriters, and we rarely get this much excitement for Filipino films these days. I do like the message of the film; it portrays the mixing of religion, macho men and homosexuals, in a funny entertaining way.
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