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In Pinoy
mythology there are several different kinds of
demons, tiyanaks is one of them. A tiyanak is a demon
who transforms into a baby to be able to get close to
humans. When a group of college students go on a field
trip over the Easter, they have no idea that they're
about to encounter just this kind of demon. Will they
be able to kill the demon kids before it's too late?
After churning out some ridiculously tame ghost flicks,
the Philippines give us something different; flying
CGI monster babies! It's like Superbabies on crack.
These days, most countries are making horror films based
on old folklores and myths but unfortunately, the
Philippines don't seem to have any particularly
good ones. Still, that didn't prevent Tiyanaks from
becoming a box-office smash and it's ridiculous that
people actually sat in the movie theatre thinking that
they were watching a genuinely creepy movie while in
fact they were fed crap that not even the Sci-Fi
channel would produce.
Tiyanaks is the story of a group of college students
who go on a field trip over the Easter. When they get
lost in the middle of nowhere they decide to ask a
religious old lady if they can spend the night. She
agrees to let them stay but warns them about the
terrors that await outside. And what terror is that?
It's tiyanaks! Demonic children who feed on human
flesh. They have wings, glowing eyes, fangs, a body
that looks like it's made out of clay (which I'm sure
that it was in several scenes) and at daytime they
like to play games in the woods. As if that wasn't
hilariously bad enough, they're also extremely poorly
animated. Sometimes they would float around on the
screen due to the poor CGI-effects (they're mostly
portrayed by poor CGI) and at other times they would
look like a demonic puppet from some cheesy Child's
Play knock-off from the early 90s.
Like always with Pinoy horror films (seriously, I've
yet to find a single exception), the movie looks
extremely outdated in technical terms. It looks like
an 80s episode of The Bold and The Beautiful. The
poor script and flat characters didn't exactly help
either. Now, with most demons, ghosts, spirits etc,
there is only one or two ways to kill them but in
Tiyanaks I counted to at least four ways. This makes
it very easy to kill the tiyanaks and once the teens
start killing them off, it doesn't take long before
the movie ends. Oh and with what predictability it
ends! The twist ending is so generic that you can't
even begin to imagine. I seriously thought that even
the Philippines were above this but apparently not.
Just because this movie killed at the local box-office
does not mean that it's a good movie. Pinoy horror
flicks generally aren't very good but Tiyanaks has
got to be one of the worst ones I've seen to date.
I can understand that it might be exciting for locals
to watch a famous folklore come to life on screen but
this is one folklore that should've been left alone,
or at least made by someone who knows how to make a
horror movie. This was laughable.
Some severed body parts.
Ugh, noisy and overpowering. Hated it.
Pathetic demon child movie that, despite its fairly
original (yet incredibly stupid) premise, manages to
guide us through every single horror cliché out there.
The only reason as to why you should check this out
is if you want to make your own horror flick and want
advice on what not to do. Avoid.
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