'Patient X' (2009) – Yam Laranas.

Famed for his chilling supernatural horror 'The Echo' (2005) aka 'Sigsaw', which he then subsequently remade in 2008, talented Filipino director/cinematographer, Yam Laranas unleashed one of the more exhilarating, sadly unheralded horror films of 2009 with the deliciously demonic 'Patient X'. Beginning gruesomely with the cruel slaughter of the well to-do Esguerra family by feral, home invading cannibal killers. 20 years later the sole traumatized survivor of this massacre, Lukas, (Richard Gutierrez) is fatefully recalled to his home town some in order to assist distressed chief of police (TJ Trinidad) interrogate the monstrously bizarre, inhumanly resilient patient, Guada (Cristina Reyes). Seemingly innocent, she is said to be responsible for slaying Lukas's brother and the similarly brutal deaths of the vengeful police chief's own family!

'Patient X' remains a rousing example of frantic, blood-drenched Filipino folk horror! Evoking an eerie, doom-laden atmosphere frequently suggestive of horror maestros Lucio Fulci or George A. Romero in full fright! With blackened, claustrophobic shades of 'Assault on Precinct 13', baby-faced Dr. Lukas, Guada, officer Alfred and the other beleaguered occupants of the demonically besieged hospital nightmarishly discover that their increasingly berserk assailants are the dreaded Aswang! These ghoulish, preternaturally strong, flesh-eating fiends of fearful Filipino myth, and their ferocious outsized leader Marcus (Elvis Gutierrez) will stop at nothing to free Marcus's incarcerated ,Guada! Director Laranas is most adept at maximizing oppressive menace on such a modest budget, robustly orchestrating a shuddersome number of energized shocks as these truly horrific Aswang run bloodily amok in this horror haunted hospital! Fear-master Yam Laranas's feverish Filipino fright-flick 'Patient X' is an infectiously watchable horror film, with the kindly doctor Lukas making for a likeable hero. So, if you dare, prepare to spend the night in intensive scare!