iWant releases horror movie anthology in time for Halloween

IT’S a few days before Halloween and in line with the spooky season, streaming service iWant is coming out with a horror movie anthology starring Jake Cuenca and Ivana Alawi as people who want to take the easy way out only the easy way out has dire consequences.

The anthology, titled Sitsit (the Filipino onomatopoeic expression for “pssst”), is set to hit the streaming service on Oct. 31 and will have two parts, Scorpio and Aswang, directed by Ato Bautista and Erin Pascual, respectively.

In Scorpio, Jake Cuenca plays an aging, lustful photographer who takes a potion that turns him into a young man in order to win the heart of the woman he is obsessed with. In Aswang, Ivana Alawi plays a money-hungry prostitute who wants to turn her life around and befriends a stray dog which may be more than what it seems.

“Actually, before I accepted the role, I told the management that I was scared of taking it because I have never been in a lead role before,” Ms. Alawi said in the vernacular during the media conference on Oct. 23 via Zoom.

Misgivings and fears aside, Ms. Alawi accepted  because she “always wanted to star in a horror [film].”

“I wanted to play a crazy character, a murderous one. In YouTube, I am myself, but when I entered this [shoot], when I started shooting for this, it was different,” she explained.

Ms. Alawi first rose to fame on YouTube doing vlogs and eventually became a model and actress.

The anthology was shot before COVID-19 quarantine measures were put in place so the cast and crew were able to shoot on location, which included a scene on a street in Poblacion, Makati which Ms. Alawi admitted unnerved her.

“There were so many people and it was hard to get into character,” she said.

Sitsit airs starting Oct. 31 on the iWant TFC app which can be downloaded from the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store or accessed via iwanttfc.com. — ZBC