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Wikipedia article
'The Ghost Bride' (Chinese: ; pinyin: Gu xnning; Peh-e-j: Ki sin-ni) is a 2017 Filipino supernatural horror film starring Kim Chiu. It is directed by Chito S. Roo and produced by Star Cinema.
The film marked the reunion of Chiu and Matteo Guidicelli after 'My Binondo Girl' in 2011, and also as their first movie project together. It is Chiu's third movie with Roo. The movie was released in theaters on November 1, 2017.
The film revolves around a girl who is offered wealth for her loved ones in exchange for a spiritual ritual.
Plot
Mayen Lim (Kim Chiu) is an independent middle daughter of a cash-strapped family who is struggling for sustenance due to their financial difficulties. The family, who are Chinese opera playwrights at the local temple, is composed of her parents Manuel (Robert Sea) and Dolores (Ina Raymundo), her cousin Matt (Jerome Ponce), and her aunts Jana (Kakai Bautista) and Akoh (Beverly Salviejo). Clinton Yu (Matteo Guidicelli), who is dating Mayen, is an architect from a controlling middle-class family who plans to migrate to Cebu to attend a wedding of his brother's co-worker.
On the night of the wedding, Mayen meets Angie Lao (Alice Dixson), a Cantonese matchmaker who offers her an opportunity to participate in a ghost marriage and become the wife of the late Xu Jian Rong from a wealthy Chinese family in exchange for her family's debts. She initially declines the request the day after, but when Manuel's employer and debtor Robert Ong (Mon Confiado) threatens to sue the family in favor for his marriage to Mayen, the latter accepts Lao's offer of performing the ritual to acquire the money, and receives a bracelet as the bachelors family heirloom and a down payment of her emigration to Xinjiang for the marriage.
The next night, Mayen is assaulted by Robert, who escapes after encountering the malevolent presence of five 'yaogui', including Xu Jian Rong's, surrounding her house. The spirits follow him to his house where he is killed by the groom's 'yaogui', who rips out his heart. During Robert's funeral the following night, Mayen berates Clinton for cheating on her in his recent engagement with another in a committed relationship arranged by his parents after her brother Victor (Victor Silayan) tells her the truth the previous day. During their confrontation, the ghost possessing Clinton kills him. When Mayen realizes what the ritual that is responsible for Robert and Clinton's deaths is capable of, she takes off the bracelet. The ghosts attack as Akoh is lured out of the bedroom and killed before her niece can escape the house with her. Mayen confronts Lao to stop the ordeal, and the latter reveals she attempted to convince her parents earlier before her when Manuel declines during their initial meeting.
Mayen seeks help from the temple's abbot Lee (Nanding Josef) and the female Buddhist monk mystics led by Suan Ming (Isay Alvarez). The monks use a blessed singing bowl on the bracelet and avert the ghosts' attacks when the bowl sounds. Suan reveals that Xu Jian Rong's 'yaogui' was a soul collector from the fourth realm of Diyu ruled by Wuguan Wang and he was protected by the other four female ghosts who were his concubines to prevent the ritual from being disrupted. After arriving home, Mayen is contacted by her childhood friend and programmer David Chao (Christian Bables) who reveals that his group was hired by Lao three years ago to select six women, including Mayen, who was currently selected born under the Water Rooster year to partake in the ghost marriage that resulted to the apparent deaths of the other five participants before her. He provides a ceremonial exorcism with the monks to end the deal with the spirit which will be held on her wedding day.
The day before their departure to China for the ritual, Lao discovers that Mayen did not appear at the airport and confronts her family at the house. Manuel tells her that she had left one day ago with David to go to Nepal and end the ghost marriage. The two arrive at the Buddhist temple in Kathmandu to start the exorcism. During the ritual, Mayen destroys the bracelet as her soul is sent to the netherworld after Xu Jian Rong abducts Manuel at the house while performing a ritual opera for the exorcism with his family, Lee, and the monks. Mayen awakens at the Lake of Fire and Blood where all the tormented souls, including Clinton and Robert, are while searching her father. She finds Manuel, who apologizes to her, and they are attacked by Xu Jian Rong's concubines; the two manage to defeat them. Meanwhile, the ghost kills Lao after failing to offer Mayen to him. Her soul arrives at the realm and tries to kill Mayen but is stopped by Akoh's spirit, allowing Mayen and her father to escape the realm through the gateway where they awaken from their sleep. Mayen then burns Xu Jian Rong's portrait to destroy his spirit and complete the exorcism while Manuel and his wife watch their opera peacefully.
In the post-credits scene, Xu Jian Rong's 'yaogui' reincarnates in Lao's body, vowing to get Mayen.
Cast
Main cast
*Kim Chiu as Mayen Lim*Alice Dixson as Angie Lao
*Matteo Guidicelli as Clinton Yu
*Christian Bables as David Chao
Supporting cast
*Robert Sea as Manuel Lim*Ina Raymundo as Dolores Lim
*Beverly Salviejo as "Akoh"
*Kakai Bautista as Jana
*Mon Confiado as Robert Ong
*Victor Silayan as Victor Lim
*Jerome Ponce as Matt
*Bea Saw as Jane Lim
*Ku Aquino as Xu Jian Rong
*Nanding Josef as Abbot
*Isay Alvarez as Suan Ming
*Elizabeth Chua as Tingting
Guest cast
*Ryan Bang as Passerby*Jhong Hilario as Passerby
*Denise Joaquin as Maimai
*Luz Fernandez as Lalaine Yu
*Eddie Ngo as Censio Yu
See also
*List of ghost films
*'Feng Shui'
*'Sukob'
*'Tenement 2'
*'Feng Shui 2'
*'The Healing'
References
Category:2017 films
Category:Philippine horror films
Category:Regal Entertainment films
Category:Star Cinema films
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