Writer/director Yam
Laranas and actress Yam Concepcion work together for the first time in “Night Shift”, Viva Films’ first horror
presentation in cooperation with Alliud Entertainment for the year 2020.
Set in a hospital
morgue, the movie revolves around a pathologist’s assistant named Jessie who’s
working on a straight shift one stormy night.
She doesn’t believe in the afterlife, but she is suddenly creeped out by
the strange sounds that seem to be coming from the cadavers. She cannot shake off the feeling that they
seem to be coming back to life. As her
fear intensifies, Jessie begins to ponder on the idea of the Final
Judgment. And if indeed the day has come
that people rise from the dead, she is tormented about meeting her own
end.
Yam Laranas has
been praised for his previous horror movies, such as “Aurora” (2018), “The
Road” (2011), and “Sigaw” (2004), for which he won a Special Award at the Brussels
International Festival of Fantasy Film (BIFFF).
In an interview
conducted by thewrap.com on how to
make a horror movie, Laranas said, “I
want to see what’s real out there and I translate them into (a) real scary
(story) because that has a connection to a lot of people…It becomes
relatable. And when you translate that
into something horrifying, it touches people’s fears, nightmares and skeletons
in their closet.”
He also added that “location is another character in a horror
film. It is where fear and paranoia are
created.”
This statement is
well depicted in the movie trailer where Yam Concepcion is seen all alone in
cold hallways with flickering lights, a room with rows of beds with cadavers,
Yam running from what appears to be a group of zombies, and more.
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The director also points out the
importance of music in elevating the fear and enhancing the mood of the
horror movie. That’s why he has teamed
up once again with the award-winning gentlemen (Oscar
Fogelström and Albert Michael Idioma) that created the music and
sound for “Aurora”.
“I am
impressed how efficient every single one is in the team,” wrote
Yam Concepcion in one of her Instagram posts that shows her in the set of
their movie. She commends director Yam
Laranas for being a good leader that runs the whole production. She further wrote, “So lucky to be part of
this movie project and to be working with all of you.” .
This is Yam’s first lead role in a horror
movie. She was very convincing as a
villain in the drama series “Halik”
on ABS-CBN, it’s about time she shows us her acting prowess in the horror
genre, especially with the big twist that the movie has in store.
“Night
Shift” opens
in cinemas on January 22, 2020.
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