Just witnessed the shooting yesterday of Talahib at a cemetery, an upcoming slasher psychological thriller film under Feast Foundation and directed by Alvin Yapan. The film stars Joem Bascon, Gillian Vicencio, Kate Alejandrino, Jess Mendoza, Kristof Garcia, Angeli Nicole Sanoy, Timothy Castillo, Iyo Canlas, Yam Mercado, Dax Alejandro, Rex Lantano, Sue Prado and Mercedes Cabral.

Talahib is a slasher film, in the tradition of the franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and other local massacre films. A ghost killer preys upon hapless victims who happen to pass by this talahiban in an abandoned subdivision. Their bodies are always found asphyxiated before being disposed in the same talahiban.

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The story is told from the point of view of P02 Bong (Joem), the police investigator. He does not believe in ghost killers; even though at one point, he will have a close encounter with the killer, shooting him at close range and slashing through the wild grass that bleeds. However, Bong will begin to reasses his belief when he encounters a band of friends, all in their 20’s or early 30’s, conducting a spirit quest at the talahiban, or so they say.

The leader of the group is Mario. He is joined by Vernie, Paul, Patrick, Ria and Joyce. As it turns out, this band of friends are children of a group parents who killed the ghost killer (who used to be a hired assasin) and buried his body in the talahiban of that subdivision.

Now, to stop the violence, the band of friends is trying to exhume the body. But the ghost killer, intent on continuing his killings even in the afterlife. will not let them. He enjoys killing too much. The band of friends will be killed off by the ghost killer one by one, leaving only Joyce behind. The movie will be mostly chase scenes among the bleeding grasses of the talahiban which seems to have a mind of its own.

To keep Joyce alive, Bong together with his police partner, PInsp, Roman, will encounter a mysterious character in Stephen, caught loitering in talahiban. Bong thinks Stephen is only pretending to be mentally deranged to avoid suspicion. But as it turns out, Stephen is a son of a real estate mogul who used to hire the killer, to do assasination jobs for him. Stephen will become the key as to the origin story of the ghost killer.

“Talahib” will tackle about the problem of forgiveness and the legacy of violence being passed on from parents to their children.