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Watch The New International Trailer For Pedring Lopez’s Award-Winning Action Horror, NILALANG (THE ENTITY)

The Los Angeles Philippine International Film Festival is where to be this Friday night if you wish to catch a screening of director Pedring Lopez’s new movie, Nilalang (The Entity). The screening will be held at 7:30pm PST while Lopez continues to plot the festival course thereafter along with furthering prospects of a North American release after winning several awards at the 41st Manila International Film Festival late last year. SYNOPSIS: NBI special crimes division agent Tony (Cesar Montano) encounters an evil entity which is bent on killing and torturing beautiful women, one of which was his girlfriend, years after he have thought to have killed the malevolent spirit. People close to Tony is in danger including his partner Jane (Meg Imperial), who has romantic interest towards him with everyone in the agency aware of this fact except for Tony. The spirit, who has killed many people in Japan, is […]

Review: Ozawa Brings Notoriety To Lopez’s Substance In NILALANG (2015)

Lee B. Golden III

In covering a lot of action movies or film in general, you don’t always hear of instances of porn actors and making transitions to more serious careers in acting. When you do, though, it does present an interesting sense of appeal, and for me, considering some of the surprises I’ve seen in the action genre, I’m certainly no one pigeonhole anybody into a category, and I think many would concur with me. That said, in the case of director Pedring Lopez’s new action horror, Nilalang, I think at least one of the biggest factors in this film’s press coverage was the casting of former adult entertainer Maria Ozawa – one of actually two former adult entertainers on my radar making their leap forward to more solid film roles. It’s a noteworthy effort to make, and especially here for Ozawa who co-stars with a lead cast led by actor Cesar Montano, […]

Over 100 Set Photos And 20 Minutes Of Behind-The-Scenes Footage From Pedring Lopez's New Action Horror, NILALANG

Lee B. Golden III

Director Pedring Lopez‘s latest action horror thriller, Nilalang, remains on deck for a similataneous local release on December 25 coinciding with this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival installation. In the meantime, the promotional campaign continues for what looks to be deemed as a reinforcing milestone for former adult entertainer Maria Ozawa who is journeying toward a more career centric on serious roles. How serious? Well, here she plays a Yakuza princess in Manila who unwittingly becomes entangled in an intense investigation of gory and supernatural serial killings alongside local film star, actor Cesar Montano in the role of the detective hot on the trail. How intense? Well, as about intense as it is serious, like “NSFW bondage and face ripping” serious. As in “Ozawa blazing up a bar and charging at a samurai with a sword” serious, thus making her action debut in spectacular fashion. The most recent trailers are […]

Get Ready For A Facelift In The New Action-Packed NSFW Trailer For NILALANG!

Lee B. Golden III

Have no illusions about actress and former adult entertainer Maria Ozawa. She’s come quite far from her former trade and since adding action movies to her craft, she now has a starring role as a Yakuza princess along side actor Cesar Montano that commands definitively more for her screentime. For this, we now get a look at the new action horror thriller, Nilalang from director Pedring Lopez and now well into post-production ahead of it’s screening at the Metro Manila Film Festival upon its December release. The first trailer has arrived with all the trimmings of a movie that dares to push its fair share of envelopes… or charge at them with a sword, whichever works best. SYNOPSIS: The story tells of Tony – an NBI agent hot on the trail of a series of rapes and killings that counts, among them, Tony’s girlfriend, Tin. With his co-agent, Jane, they […]

Check Out Maria Ozawa In This Latest Production Still For Philippine Action Horror, NILALANG

Lee B. Golden III

Production for director Pedring Lopez‘s latest action horror, Nilalang, starring Cesar Montano, is already underway with plans to be ready by December 25 in lieu of the forthcoming Metro Manila Film Festival this year. For this, it’s a rare thing to see adult entertainment performers transition to formidable acting roles, but it does happen. Point in fact, observe Japanese AV idol Maria Ozawa in her debut acting role as the heiress to a Japanese organized crime syndicate as per Dennis Empalmado’s script. WeLovePost’s own Cody Miller, Rex Lopez, Wesley Villarica and Maia Yambao-Lopez are producing with stunt sequences directed by none other than Sonny Sison and assistant action director Jeff Centauri who co-stars as Ozawa‘s bodyguard. Take a closer look at Ozawa in the still below, as well as the synopsis just beneath. Nilalang” (“Entity”) will tackle the underworld of corrupt Philippine cops and the Japanese Yakuza and its links […]