Pagpag: Siyam na Buhay

Pagpag: Siyam na Buhay
Theatrical movie poster
Directed by	Frasco S. Mortiz
Written by	Joel Mercado
Screenplay by	Joel Mercado
Produced by	Star Cinema
Starring	Shaina Magdayao Paulo Avelino Daniel Padilla Kathryn Bernardo
Production companies	Star Cinema Regal Films
Distributed by	Star Cinema Regal Films
Release date	December 25, 2013 (2013-12-25)
Running time	1 hour and 45 minutes
Country	Philippines
Languages	Tagalog English
Box office	Php 226.9 million million (as of Jan. 2,2013)

Pagpag: Siyam na Buhay (referred as Pagpag) is a 2013 Filipino horror and suspense film starring Kathryn Bernardo, Daniel Padilla, Shaina Magdayao and Paulo Avelino. It is one of the official entries for the 2013 Metro Manila Film Festival. The film is a co-production of Star Cinema and Regal Films. The film was directed by Frasco Mortiz, and it will be released on Christmas Day.

The concept of the movie is based on a Filipino superstitious belief that one should never go home directly after visiting a wake since it risks bringing evil spirits to one's home. One should first shake off (in Filipino, pagpag) whatever curse there may be to avoid being trailed by the soul of the dead.

Plot

A girl in a red dress (Empress Schuck), visits the funeral of her boyfriend (Enchong Dee) who hung himself. She is driven away by the boy's mother, insisting her son died because of her. When she arrives home, her sister asked her if she did the "pagpag" but she doesn't believed in it afterwards, she is suddenly taunted by the ghost of her dead boyfriend.

Cedric (Daniel Padilla), his friends; Hannah (Michelle Vito), Ashley (Miles Ocampo), Justin (CJ Navato) and Rico (Dominic Roque) enter a horror house. Hannah is assaulted by one of the men in the haunted house and Cedric fights for her. At home, Cedric's father (Dominic Ochoa) scolds and grounds him and takes Cedric's fake keys for the car. While his Dad gave orders to their maid, Cedric escapes and drives the highways until he almost runs over a girl, Leni (Kathryn Bernardo). They fight and Leni unknowingly loses her charm bracelet in Cedric's car.

Cedric and his friends party on a hill. Cedric and Hannah have a heated argument which ends in Cedric revealing that he doesn't actually have feelings for Hannah and is not ready for a committed relationship, which prompts her to throw a rock at Cedric, wounding his shoulder. Cedric loses control and drives up until morning where they come upon the funeral of Roman (Paulo Avelino) with his wife, Lucy (Shaina Magdayao), in despair. They soon discover that the funeral was arranged by Leni, Dencio (Janus del Prado) and Marcelo (Marvin Yap). After the funeral, Marcelo is seen sweeping the room when Eva (Matet de Leon) suddenly scolds him as it was a bad superstition. All of the unwanted guests violate a superstition including: Hannah, who dropped tears on the coffin when she saw Cedric holding Leni's hand; Rico, who wiped the coffin with a handkerchief; Justin, who stole bread from the funeral; Ashley for looking at her reflection in the mirror; Cedric, by attending the funeral with a wound; Dencio, who stole the money below the coffin and Leni and everyone else who did not do the "Pagpag," an act of dusting off oneself after a funeral to avoid evil spirits following you home.

At home, Leni's stepbrother Mac-Mac (Clarence Delgado) sees apparitions and draws nine figures with a number 8. Marcelo who was sweeping outside is killed by a malevolent entity. Dencio blames Leni for not doing the Pagpag and tells her that the spirit is coming back for the rest of them. He proceeds to tell her the story of how Roman, the husband of Lucy, died. Roman and Lucy once had a child who unfortunately died. Roman made a pact with the demons to bring back his son's life, but on the consequence that he kill nine people in order to do so, and he willingly obliged. After committing his sins, he found his son well and alive inside his coffin. One night, the people from the barrio tried to burn Roman's house down because they knew he was working for the devil. This act led to the loss of Roman and his son, Emmanuel lives.

Meanwhile, Hannah is planning to commit suicide when she suddenly sees a shadow which she thought it was Cedric's, which she tries to follow. After a while, her phone suddenly rings and it turns out to be Cedric telling her that he is on his way there. Hannah panics and a demonic form gouges her eyes out and throws her into the pool, killing her. Cedric witnesses the event and is blamed for what happened. One by one, Cedric's friends are killed by the unknown entity they brought back with them from the funeral. Rico is killed when the soul from his handkerchief throws him against a wall in a gym's shower room, which he first thought was Justin and says that he is really gay. Cedric consults Justin and Ashley and insists them to burn the clothes they wore so they did.

Cedric decides to go back to the house of Lucy so he can talk to Eva (Lucy's older sister). While on his way, he sees Leni in the market and decided to follow her. While in the market, Leni suddenly sees the ghost of Roman which caused her to run and panic. Cedric saw Leni panicking causing him to worry about her and chase after her. Leni blacks out while being chased and Cedric rescues her before Roman's ghost catches her. Cedric brings Leni to his car and drives. Leni woke up and was alarmed she ordered Cedric to stop the car. After the car stopped she and Cedric talked, they both find out they have the same goal and decided to team up.

When they found the coffin, the body is not there anymore. They searched the house and saw three human figures in the wall drew in blood. Leni goes to find Mac-Mac in the church and Dencio, together with Eva also arrives to warn them and tells the group that Mac-Mac is really Emmanuel. She tells them that during the fire, she went there to save the baby in order for him to stay away from the demonic lives of his parents. When Eva tells Cedric and Leni that the body is in their old house, they went to find it. In the church, Eva is killed when she is sucked inside a tomb. Meanwhile, Ashley and Justin had done what Cedric asked them to do, they went inside Ashley's house, Justin told Ashley he will leave for a while to make a sandwich in the kitchen which caused Ashley to panic and to be scared. To overcome her fear she took pictures of herself but while she was taking pictures she saw one of the images has the face of the ghost. She is soon thrown to a mirror then falls down. Justin comes back and saw what happened. Ashley is impaled by a falling chandelier and Justin, who was running away in the streets calling Cedric about it was crushed by two trucks, getting sandwiched. In the church, Dencio is trapped inside his car when he plans to save Mac-Mac in the church. The spirit taunts him and he tries to give back the money he stole. He rolls down the windows and tries to get out but is ultimately killed. The doors unlocked and Mac-Mac came out of the church crying. Soon, the 7 lives who were killed: Marcelo, Hannah, Rico, Eva, Ashley, Justin and Dencio appeared and told Mac-Mac that his sister's life is in danger. The spirit appears and Mac-Mac followed it while holding a rosary. When Cedric and Leni find the house, they realized that it was Lucy who sent her husband's spirit to murder the victims until he obtains nine lives for him to be alive. Before Leni and Cedric are killed, they tell Lucy the truth about Emmanuel. The entity tries to kill Leni and Cedric, but instead kills Lucy. Lucy, who is half-alive, reveals that she is pregnant, rendering two lives killed in the process. Roman wakes up and attempts to kill Leni before being stabbed by Cedric. In the aftermath, Cedric arrives in the hospital to visit Leni and Mac-Mac. Within seconds of having fun, they saw the apparitions of Lucy and Roman smiling at them eerily.

Cast

• Kathryn Bernardo as Leni Dela Torre
• Daniel Padilla as Cedric Castillo
• Shaina Magdayao as Lucy
• Paulo Avelino as Roman
• Clarence Delgado as Mac-Mac / Emmanuel
• Matet de Leon as Eva
• Janus del Prado as Dencio
• Miles Ocampo as Ashley
• CJ Navato as Justin
• Michelle Vito as Hannah
• Dominic Roque as Rico
• Dominic Ochoa
• Manuel Chua
• Eric Froilan Nicolas
• Marvin Yap as Marcelo
• Enchong Dee
• Empress Schuck
• Lester Giri, JC Padilla, Katsumi Kabe, Seth Gothico as Band @ the bar
• JD Baltazar as Friend of Cedric @ the bar

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Awards & Nominations

Award Giving Body	Award	Recipient(s)	Result
38th Metro Manila Film Festival
	Best Picture	Pagpag: Siyam Na Buhay	Nominated
	Best Actor	Daniel Padilla	Nominated
	Best Actress	Kathryn Bernardo	Nominated
	Best Director	Frasco Santos Mortiz	Nominated
	Best Supporting Actor	Janus Del Prado	Nominated
	Best Supporting Actress	Shaina Magdayao	Nominated
	Youth Choice Award	Pagpag: Siyam Na Buhay	Won
	Best Festival Make-Up	Mountain Rock Productions & Leslie Lucero	Won
	Best Visual Effects	Blackburst Inc.	Nominated
	Best Child Performer	Clarence Delgado	Nominated
	Best Sound Recording	Arnel Labayo	Nominated
	Best Original Story	Joel Mercado	Nominated
	Mavshack Male Star of the Night	Daniel Padilla	Won

Trivia & Deaths

On TV Patrol, Bernardo said that Pagpag is like the movie Final Destination and The Conjuring.

In Twitter, many fanpages and fans of Bernardo and Padilla changed their icons on December 24 to Pagpag Official Movie Poster.

Their deaths are connected to the violation they did: Marcelo - sweeping the ground, killed with a broom. Hannah - crying and dropping tears on the coffin, the entity gouged her eyes out. Rico - wiping the coffin's cover, killed by an entity from the handkerchief he used. Eva - she bring her visitors at the car of Cedric that's the 9th saying that you should not bring any visitors to their destination so she was sucked in a cemetery at the back of the church. Ashley - using her compact mirror in the funeral, she wounded herself with a body-sized mirror and killed with a glass chandelier. Justin - stole a sandwich from the funeral, killed when two trucks crushed him. The police term used is "Sandwich kill". Dencio - stole money from the funeral, killed when he offers to return the money to the spirit.

External links

• Pagpag: Siyam na Buhay on Facebook
• Pagpag: Siyam na Buhay at IMDb