Resureksyon

Mara (Isabelle Daza) and Aila (Jasmine Curtis) are sisters who are very close. Their parents died when they were children and they have no one else to turn to but each other. To be able to support her sister and her sickly son, Miggs, Mara decides to become an OFW. This turns out to be a bad choice as she turns up dead after some time. Her body is brought home but, during the wake, she miraculously comes back from the dead.

The first 15 or so minutes of horror movie Resureksyon seems like it's going for a slow paced, atmospheric thriller. It quickly abandons this for most of the rest of the film, going for a weird patchwork of ideas in the style of a Shake Rattle and Roll episode - and not the good kind, either.

NOTE: SPOILERS.

The main fault of the movie seems to be its awkward script as the balance of funny moments and serious moments is so way off that it's hard to take the movie seriously. The script also suffers from numerous plot holes: the antagonist comes back to life at a very conspicuous event and no one is the least bit suspicious about it. This is despite the fact that the character has been dead for at least a few weeks, having been transported to her home in a coffin. Despite ominous warnings written on top of the coffin Aila fails to connect the two and takes care of her sister despite this extremely weird series of events and ignores the fact that her sister does not speak, has ashen skin and is catatonic. Mara's motivations defy logic as she apparently does what she does, including creating more vampire followers, to cure her son by making him an undead vampire. Killing someone to cure them, that's logical, right?

The situation seems contained to a small segment of the town, as Mara manages to infect only a few police officers, and four family members, but Aila later makes an announcement to the whole town, implying that Mara has been wreaking havoc all over town. There are no scenes of Mara taking victims in the town before this. All you get is an implication since her victims seem to increase towards the end of the movie. It's as if none of the characters have any grasp of reality, and by extension, the script as well.

Resureksyon's vampires are an unconventional cross between Vampires and Zombies, as many seem to walk around mindlessly, attracted to potential victims. The Vampire curse is spread via bites (killing the victim is sort of implied, but applying this to the victims makes it a bit inconsistent - i.e. the doctor.) The origin of the vampires is a bit convoluted as well, involving being bit by a family of Serbian (or European in any case) vampires who live in Myanmar (wtf?)

I'm not a fan of the editing choices as well - most of the vampire attacks are rendered either in a stuttery slow motion style or through shaky handheld shots - so much so that it's hard to make out what is happening. The worst display of this is in the hospital scenes, where everything is bathed in red light and is even harder to see than normal.

The actors are capable, but the script does them no favors. This is kind of disappointing based on the acting talent this movie has within it. Ultimately, Resureksyon had an interesting premise, but in this case I think they kinda blew it. Fans of any kind of serious horror will probably be disappointed or turned off. Fans of the actors/actresses involved should have no problem watching, though.