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Back at their house, Maria appears normal until she threatens her children with a knife for running around. Ermin learns of the incident with Maria claiming that the action was not within her control. Alone, her aswang curse begins to take control over her and one day she kills her children and cooks
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Maria is a loving and dutiful life wife to her husband, Ermin, a police officer with whom she has two children named Pablo and
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and take note of her aggressive behavior. Ermin brings her back to their home, but a hospital employee discourages him due to their findings and says that his spouse might not even recognize him. Ermin eventually convinces the hospital to take her back home saying that it might bring her memories
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In england, Maria befriends Nanay Leng, a fellow OFW. After buying groceries for her employer, Maria is raped on a van and is later found wandering. She is brought to a hospital, where the doctor recommends that she be returned to the
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Ermin then buries their children. Shortly afterwards, he witnesses a remorseful Maria crying nearby whose aswang curse then takes over once again. Maria receives a wound on her face after her husband hacks her face with a
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The film project later received funding from a group of investors from
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after learning that her high school friend Emily applied to become an overseas worker. Ermin is hesitant with his wife's plans initially but eventually relents. Maria then goes to
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who says that there is nothing that can be done to return Maria back to normal. The police then pursue the aswang. After some encounters, Maria is killed. As an
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Maria. The curse, by opening her mouth and letting an orange entity inside hop out from her stomach and into Maria’s, would eventually turn her into an
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and became interested in making an adaptation of the tale into a film. To avoid legal problems, the real name of the woman was not used in the film.
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word for "to hack"; according to the legend, Maria Labo was given a cut on her face by her husband after the former cooked and ate their children.
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them. When Ermin discovers what she has done he repeatedly shoots her but she escapes with Ermin calling her a “monster.”
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works on Maria's body, he finds out that her corpse is nowhere to be found, only to find her still alive.
506:[Newbie producer-actress expected to be a hit as an aswang] (in Filipino). Pilipino Star Ngayon
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429:[Life of a Pinay OFW who became an 'aswang' to be adapted into a film] (in Filipino). Bandera
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