Fast Review: Silip (2007)

As a service crew in a cafeteria owned by her stepmother, Tess (Diana Zubiri) is used to dealing with a lot of people and crowded environment. The young lady married a roving salesman (Polo Ravales) who took her somewhere she’s unfamiliar with – an almost inhabited, remote farm – to settle with him and start a family. They’re in married bliss for a time until a mysterious woman disrupts the couple’s otherwise peaceful relationship.

Both lead actors played their respective roles with chilling brilliance and proved to be more than just pretty faces. Not to be underrated is Prieto’s effortless performance as the angelic evil that put Zubiri’s character from a simple wife into a horrendous, complicated situation. As strange things started to happen and deaths come alive, a significant truth unfolds and explains the beginning and end of the story.

There’s nothing much to remember about the movie except perhaps Zubiri’s acting prowess, Ravales’ butt exposures and the rather confusing sequence of events. This film may not be Joel Lamangan’s (who has directed a lot of acclaimed films including Ang Huling Birhen sa Lupa, Mano Po, etc.) best work of art but I will give him an A for effort.