Shake, Rattle & Roll 13 2011

Tamawo is the opening tale that threads danger and folklore through a small Filipino community. The story begins with the elderly Lando (played by Ronnie Lazaro) burying something under his house, a secret that the next arrival of white outsiders only intensifies. After Lando finishes, a chieftain and his tribe demand the return of what was taken; when Lando resists, the confrontation erupts into a brutal killing, and the chieftain is slain along with his people. This brutal act sets off a chain of events that pull Bikbok (played by Bugoy Carino) and his family into a world where the boundary between the living and the supernatural is thin.

Bikbok travels to a nearby town with his blind mother Isay (Maricar Reyes), his baby brother, and his troubled stepfather Allan (played by Zanjoe Marudo) to escape grinding poverty. Allan takes charge of a farm after Lando’s death, but the family’s fragile safety is rocked when Allan uncovers a mysterious crystal buried beneath the old house. That crystal holds a hidden life, and at night Bikbok notices pale, white beings—Tamawos—watching him from the shadows. The next day, Pey (played by Ervic Vijandre) escorts Isay, Allan, and Bikbok to Aling Epang (played by Celia Rodriguez) for help with their baby, hoping to cure what ails them. On their way back, Bikbok sees sparks and follows them to a waterfall, where the same white figures appear again.

The tribe’s chieftain orders Bikbok to surrender what they have stolen, but Bikbok insists his family did not steal anything. Epang identifies the white intruders as the Tamawos, a fairy tribe that will not stop until what was taken is returned. She warns him that the Tamawos will not relent, and Pey is killed when he ventures into the forest and encounters them. At night, an assault by the Tamawos injuries Allan, and the group must grapple with fear and grief as Epang tends to Bikbok’s wounded foot.

Allan becomes increasingly suspicious of Bikbok’s tale, and when he ventures into the forest to find Pey, he discovers Pey’s mutilated body. The family is shaken, and they decide to leave the area. In a key moment, Bikbok discovers a crystal containing a baby—an object the Tamawos were after—and realizes the gravity of their theft. The ranch owner (played by Rez Cortez) accuses Bikbok and the others, fueling a rift within the family. Allan storms away, returning home only to find the egg removed. Isay reveals to Bikbok that he stole the egg, and Allan threatens them both, prompting Isay to urge Bikbok to flee.

With the Tamawos pressing, Bikbok seizes the egg and runs, but the Tamawos capture Isay and the baby. Bikbok’s attempt to return the egg ends in disaster when Allan confronts him and the egg is broken. The Tamawos react with rage—their baby dies, and Isay and the rest of the family are soon drawn into a nightmare. Allan confronts the beings in a final clash, is killed by the Tamawos, and Isay is taken away. In a heartrending moment, Bikbok pleads to be taken instead of his mother and watches Epang arrive as Isay sobs, then sees him carried off by the Tamawos. The tale closes on a haunting note, the Tamawos’ ultimate power over a family and a village left unresolved.

Parola centers on Lucy (Kathryn Bernardo) and Shane (Louise delos Reyes), two best friends who venture to a remote province for a school assignment. At night, Shane is missing, and Lucy searches for her in a lighthouse guarded by Andoy (a character portrayed by Hiro Magalona in the cast). The two girls slip inside and encounter mysteries that lift the veil on the lighthouse’s grim history. At the top, they see two ghosts, and Andoy rushes to pull them back from the edge, but the structure rises into chaos and the girls fall. Both survive the fall, but their near-death experience opens old wounds as the girls confront a strained friendship and a web of secrets.

As the girls recover, their mothers—Angelie (Ina Raymundo) and Beth (Ara Mina)—carry their own burdens, including Beth’s strained relationship with Norman (the husband of Cornelia, played by Richard Quan). Norman’s presence stirs tension at home and at school, where the girls grapple with fear and trust. The haunting intensifies as Lucy and Shane experience visions, and the two girls’ bond begins to fracture under pressure, jealousy, and the lingering specters that seem to threaten their lives.

In the classroom, Bryan (played by Sam Concepcion) recounts a spectral history that weaves the lighthouse’s past into the present. The tale centers on two rival witches, Rowana (Dimples Romana) and Cornelia (Julia Clarete), who died in 1879 during a feud that continued to haunt the site after the lighthouse was built. Rowana’s vengeful spirit seeks to avenge her family by harming Cornelia’s lineage with a voodoo-like power that summons storms and lightning. In their afterlife, the two witches awaken the lighthouse’s ghosts, who torment two young women and push Lucy and Shane toward a terrible fate. The two friends are eventually possessed, their consciousness eroded as they confront the past and their own relationship.

The possession culminates in a fiery confrontation where Rowana and Cornelia’s souls strive to gain control over the girls, and for a brief moment, Lucy and Shane reconcile as friends. But the witches’ power remains, and both girls are killed in the lighthouse, sealing their fates within the haunting legend. The narrative accelerates into a darker twist as Norman and Angelie pursue a complicated relationship, and the twins that appear on an ultrasound later symbolize a rebirth that echoes the girls’ reincarnation into a new generation.

Rain Rain Go Away follows the devastation of Ondoy—the floodwaters rising through a city and a family’s fragile life. Cynthia (played by Eugene Domingo) and her husband Mar (Jay Manalo) are forced to evacuate their flooded home and factory, and the birth of their baby soon becomes tangled with tragedy as a string of misfortunes unfolds. The typhoon’s aftermath reveals a deeper guilt: Mar’s brother Nante (Edgar Allan Guzman) drowns in a car, and a mysterious old woman (Perla Bautista) urges caution as a warning from the past surfaces.

Cynthia experiences a series of unnerving dreams and encounters as she and Mar move to a condominium after the tragedy. The family attends the factory with a priest to bless the place, but old secrets resurface, and the dead’s anger grows louder. As the couple continues to move forward, the weight of guilt becomes unbearable: they had helped lock the youth workers in the warehouse and, in the event of the typhoon, those trapped workers were lost. The haunting intensifies, and Maritess (Boots Anson-Roa) is killed in a tragic accident involving a truck carrying mineral water—an ominous omen of the consequences of the family’s past actions.

Cynthia tries to make amends by returning donations to the old woman, who accepts only because her grandchildren—who worked with the old woman—agree to assist. But the spirits do not rest. Back at the factory, water floods the warehouse as the ghosts of the deceased youth workers close in, and the final image lingers on the spectral presence that remains in the space. The trilogy closes on a chilling note, with the living and the dead entangled in a cycle of guilt, vengeance, and unresolved tragedy, leaving a sense that some wounds are never fully healed.

Note: The cast includes several supporting roles that help build these tales—from the priest in the Rain Rain Go Away segment to the various minor figures who populate the Tamawo and Parola stories. Where a character’s first appearance is tied to a specific actor, the actor’s name is linked in the first mention to their page on the site. If a performer’s page slug was not provided, the name appears in plain text.