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Joy and her beloved family has just moved into
a new house when Joy finds an antique bagua.
A bagua is basically a small wooden thing with
a small mirror in the middle that brings you
and your family good luck. Well, Joy does start
to get very lucky and it seems as if everything
is going her way - but everything has its price
and so does this new found fortune of hers.
Soon enough, people around her start dying,
could it be connected to the bagua?
Feng Shui is the second Philippine horror flick
that I've seen and I have to tell you, I'm still
not convinced that they have anything new to
bring to the table. Just like Sigaw (The Echo),
Feng Shui relies on a pretty unoriginal plot
filled with clichés that hardly work.
The story involves a family who has just moved
into a new house. The mother, Joy, finds a bagua
which she brings home for good luck, but soon
enough people around her start to die, and as
if that wasn't enough, she's also convinced
that the house is haunted. It soon appears to
her that everything's connected to the bagua.
While the story about the cursed bagua is pretty
original, I never did see the point in having
the ghosts in it. I mean, sure, the ghosts were
the only reason to why this is allowed to be
called a horror movie but they really served no
purpose in the movie, nor was it ever really
explained why Sadako's family reunion was held
in their house (if you get what I mean). There
really wasn't any explanation to why everyone
who died became ghosts.
Either way, Feng Shui survives due to a pretty
decent plot, some good acting, some very good
but very American camerawork and a couple of
good laughs. If the Philippines want to put
themselves on the map in the horror genre they
will have to come up with something a little
more scary and a little more original than this.
Nope.
It works for its intents and purposes but the
loud sound effects failed horribly at making us
jump, don't know why though.
Feng Shui is a pretty decent horror flick in its
entirety but it's not very original and it's
really just way too long. Maybe Philippine
horror flicks just aren't for me because this
was hardly scary if you ask me.
Review
By: AnthroFred
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