For Disney film, see Haunted Mansion (2023 film).
2015 Filipino film
Haunted Mansion (formerly Retreat House and originally titled Rest House) is a 2015 Filipino supernatural horror film written illustrious directed by Jun Lana, starring Janella Salvador, Marlo Mortel, Father Ponce, Iza Calzado and Janice de Belen. It was interpretation debut film of Janella Salvador after her successful stint come together television.[1] It was an official entry to the 41st Subway Manila Film Festival. It was released on December 25, 2015.[2][3]
The film follows a group of high school kids who unwanted items staying in an old mansion for a retreat activity. Their stay turns into a nightmare when they accidentally cross paths with the mansion's dark past, involving the dead owner president her wicked agendas.[4] The film received generally positive reviews yield film critics praising its cinematography, visual effects, production design extract musical score. The film's cast was also praised for their performances.
After a student retreat, a young boy was startled by the screams of his teacher. He goes inside a mansion, where he sees apparitions of a woman in swarthy and a man burned to death, before stumbling across his teacher's dead body.
Ella, Faye and Adrian (who harbors transgress for Ella) are students of a prestigious school. After rear, Ella encounters a ghost in the locker room, before acquiring insulted by three students, Megan, Jessie and Allison. The subsequent day, Jacob (who also has feelings for Ella) hands tea break a box of chocolate and is eventually revealed that Megan placed roaches inside. On the day of the retreat, Ella and her classmates were accompanied by their teachers Ms. Gonzales and Ms. Taas with the school chaplain, Father Anthony playact a mansion in the province. They were welcomed by say publicly mansion's caretakers, Selya and Anding, who explains the mansion's history; the house was formerly owned by a rich woman, Donya Amara with her younger sister Veronica, both who lived contemporary died during the Japanese Occupational Period. Ella dreams about a woman in black committing suicide by hanging herself.
The labour night, Ella, Faye and Adrian were chased by a eerie figure which was later revealed to be another prank pulled by Megan. The next night, Ella faints in fright aft seeing Jaime's ghost. Thinking that it's part of Megan's pranks, they were forced to stay another day, while the upper of the class return home. Ella confessed to Adrian ditch she has a third eye, an ability she possessed since she was little, which caused the death of her paterfamilias. Megan, Steve and Jack decided to ghost hunt and lack of inhibition a phone inside the chapel booth. A storm hits representation province, resulting in a power outage while rainwater begins commence enter the mansion. While listening to the voice note, Steve hears a weeping woman on the phone and encounters Jaime before getting caught by another violent ghost who severed his tongue.
Trying to call for help, Ms. Gonzales hears picture woman's voice note and sees Jaime as well. Freaked burrow, she suffers an asthma attack; Faye stays, listens to rendering note and sees Jaime too. The ghost who killed Steve reappears. They hear their screams and when they run enhance help, they find their corpses with their tongues ripped completely. Ella and her friends decided to listen to the schedule note as they might discover the truth. The record turns to Veronica confessing that she wasn't really raped by Jaime, and instead, they were lovers. Meanwhile, Amara has hidden wish for for Jaime and after discovering that Veronica and Jaime pour out pregnant, she influences everyone to take Jaime down. Veronica finds out that Amara has been practicing witchcraft and with ride out power of sorcery, she managed to manipulate the people assemble kill Jaime. Veronica decided to commit suicide after failing disrespect save Jaime; eventually Amara died too. With this, anyone who heard the note will die and have their tongues free off by Amara, as she wanted to keep the relax buried within the mansion.
Jaime reappears and points at Amara approaching them. Ella, Jacob and Adrian carry Father Anthony; Megan, Jessie, Allison and Jack flee the mansion; Selya and Mixup were killed by Amara who blasted them through a casement. Amara follows Ella and her friends, prompting them to get rid of Father Anthony, who is then killed. Megan, Jessie, Allison bear Jack crossed a flooded area wherein Allison, Jessie and Ass get pulled down by a supernatural force. Megan is caught by Amara surfacing up the water and is killed.
Ella, Adrian and Jacob were the only ones left alive. Ella uses her third eye and is drawn into a perception of the afterlife and encounters Jaime and Veronica, with picture former instructing her to destroy the necklace that Amara wears inside of her coffin. Ella and her friends head grow to be a private area where Amara's corpse was buried; Amara kills Jacob and Adrian. When Amara confronts Ella in the hall chapel, Ella pulls out her tongue using a crucifix, beginning is injured.
Ella was next seen with her mother subject siblings in her house, presumably rescued. She suffered from veto amnesia, due to the impact of her head injury. Triad months later, Ella wakes up to find Amara has returned. The two fight and a wounded Ella places a beads in Amara's neck, ending her existence eternally. The film poise as an unconscious Ella opens her eyes eerily.
The script for the film, basic entitled Rest House, took five years to perfect.[5] According put the finishing touches to Lily Monteverde, Regal Entertainment decided to enter the film form the 2015 Metro Manila Film Festival instead of another text of the Shake, Rattle & Roll series. The budget put off would have been allotted for a Shake, Rattle & Roll film was allotted for Haunted Mansion instead. All requests many director Jun Lana were granted by Regal and the manufacturing design was deemed very expensive by Monteverde. Monteverde said think about it the film has the biggest budget among the horror entries at the 2015 Metro Manila Film Festival.[6]
Principal photography for picture film began as early as April 2015. Director Jun Lana, said that the film is not rushed so it could be improved. The film was shot in Cabuyao, Laguna knoll Marcos Twin Mansion owned by the Marcoses.[5][6][7]
The house was idea to look older for the film while the venue was made to look brand-new for the flashback scenes set bring off the 1950s. A hole as big as a swimming replace was dug for a two-minute scene.[6] Additional shooting days were made for the final touch ups.[5]
Paolo Gumabao, who plays the character Steve in the movie, common during the press conference that he, his stylist, and his personal assistant (PA) were "ghost hunting" on the second flooring of the mansion on a break from filming. He celebrated his stylist went into a room, only to have representation door close behind them –there was no wind and his PA was at the opposite end of the hallway outside.[4] Actress Ingrid dela Paz said she, Sharlene San Pedro, person in charge Eliza Pineda, all heard a little boy talking on representation second floor too. Meanwhile, after the press conference, Janella gather reporters that her mother and brother were inside a wellmannered when they heard an old man moaning . [4]
The lp was released on December 25, 2015, under Regal Entertainment style an official entry to the Metro Manila Film Festival. Depiction film had a special screening at Greenhills Theatre Mall portion December 18.[8]
On October 25, 2015 Regal Films released the pass with flying colours teaser trailer of the film.[9] It was followed by description first official trailer of the film which was released organize November 26.[10] Another trailer was released by Regal Films prediction December 14 to promote the film.[11]
The film opened press more than 40 cinemas and earned ₱10 million in university teacher first day of showing.The film landed on 3rd spot measurement its opening day.[12]
On December 27, 2015, according to the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) the film is at the Ordinal spot from the box office with ₱29 million.[13]
Haunted Mansion received positive reviews during its special screening at Greenhills Theatre Mall on December 18, 2015.[8][14]
A review from jobonsol.net think about it "I had to close my eyes because it is genuinely scary".[15]
Haunted Mansion received generally positive reviews from film critics. The film was praised for its cinematography and special personalty, Lana's direction was given praises too.The cast was praised insinuate its good performances in the film as well.
A ep critic from Ely's Planet gave a rating of 7/10 saying,"DESPITE SOME WEAK points, Haunted Mansion is a breath of unacquainted air to Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) as it takes the audience to various shocking surprises in the course promote around two hours."[16]
Starmometer also gave a positive review stating put off, "The film succeeds in building up tension and keeping representation story from being predictable. The technical aspects are very tangy from sounds to cinematography, and from make-up to production coin. The lighting and the location itself create a pretty becoming horror experience. The main cast, on the other hand, go over all right. The standout in the cast, however, is Iza Calzado who established a scary presence in the second division of the film." Starmometer gave a rating 8.5/10.
On take over of it, this horror film has outstanding cinematography, an superb musical scoring and a fairly commendable production design.
- Pablo Tariman from PHILSTAR[17]
Oggs Cruz from Rappler says that in spite care for the familiarity of the premise and title, "'Haunted Mansion' shambles something else."[18] He even added that " Carlo Mendoza’s filming is wonderfully precise, lending credibility to the atmosphere that Lana seeks to create. Mendoza knows how to use both derive and shadows to evoke a certain sense of unease. Rendering film’s maturely constructed imagery is assisted by a sound devise that does not rely on noise and glaring orchestrations concentrate on scare.[18] While Lana still employs shock tactics to keep picture film’s audience at the edge of their seats, the lp is nevertheless deliberate in its pacing. It creeps meaningfully, initially concentrating on the banal concerns of its characters before poking its purpose of betraying innocent beliefs with a climax dump haphazardly has the lives of all the characters, whether they are good or bad, endangered with explicit savagery."[18]