MAURO GIA SAMONTE
MAURO GIA SAMONTE

The title should be copyrighted in my name. That was the title of my horror film which launched to stardom then fledgling movie upstart Jestoni Alarcon and which in the 1987 Metro Manila Film Festival won the Second Best Picture Award. Moviegoers must have caught on the flavor of the movie such that when the remains of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos were brought home from Honolulu, Hawaii in 1989 and the Marcos Family could not get them buried in the Libingan ng mga Bayani – what with arch anti-Marcos High Priestess Cory Aquino holding on tenaciously to the presidency of the land – and decided to put the dead dictator in somewhat a state of suspended animation in his hometown Batac, Ilocos Norte, some folks among the throng that watched the Marcos remains procession down the highway thought of the mischief of chanting: “Huwag mong buhayin ang bangkay!”

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