• Source: Uninvited (2024 film)

      • Uninvited is a 2024 Philippine crime revenge thriller film co-produced and directed by Dan Villegas from a story and screenplay written by Dodo Dayao. It stars Vilma Santos, Aga Muhlach and Nadine Lustre. The film is part of the ten official entries of the 50th Metro Manila Film Festival.


      Premise


      Uninvited covers an event spanning just one day; Wealthy businessman Guilly Vega (Aga Muhlach) throws a lavish party at his mansion to celebrate his birthday. However, Eva Candelaria (Vilma Santos) gatecrashes his party to avenge her daughter who was killed by Vega a decade prior.


      Cast


      Main Cast
      Vilma Santos as Lilia Capistrano / Eva Candelaria, a woman who poses as a socialite to crash Guilly's party to avenge her deceased daughter's death.
      Aga Muhlach as Guilly Vega, a billionaire who hosts a lavish party for his own birthday. He murdered Eva's only daughter a decade ago before the start of the film's main story.
      Nadine Lustre as Nicole, Guilly's daughter who is involved in a lot of vices and hates her father.
      Supporting cast
      Tirso Cruz III
      Mylene Dizon as Katrina Vega
      Elijah Canlas as Tofy
      Gabby Padilla as Lily Capistrano
      RK Bagatsing as Jigger Zulueta
      Lotlot de Leon as Norma
      Ketchup Eusebio as Jomar Maitim
      Cholo Barretto as Celso Batac
      Gio Alvarez as Randall Ballesteros
      Ron Angeles as Mark
      Nonie Buencamino as Elmer


      Production


      Uninvited with a working title of Project Red, was co-produced by Mentorque Productions and Project 8 Projects with Dan Villegas as its director and Dodo Dayao as its writer. While Dayao is credited as Uninvited's writer, co-star Vilma Santos provided significant output for the film's story. Due to Santos' candidacy for Batangas governor in the upcoming 2025 Philippine elections, production of the film was expedited.Uninvited also marks as Villegas' return in film directing since Hintayan ng Langit in 2018.
      Mentorque has hinted that it has proposed several film projects for Santos as early as May 2024. Among these proposals were for a thriller film and Santos expressed interest to star in a type of project that she has never done before. In August 2024, Mentorque announced its collaboration with Project 8 Projects for a "dark" film starring Santos. Santos describes the film as a happening in 24 hours which starts nice but ends as "dilapidated". Lustre agreed to work in Uninvited after learning that Santos and Mulach are involved in the film. Lustre remarked that her role as Nicole is "very extreme" and is largely a "polar opposite" on how she acts in real life.
      Principal photography was already underway for the film as of September 2024. Production for Uninvited needed to be finished by the end of the month to be an eligible entry for the second batch of films for the 2024 Metro Manila Film Festival. The title of the film was announced in that month. Uninvited was filmed in several houses with the scenes edited in post-production to make it seem like they were set in one huge mansion.
      The production team claims that Uninvited is the first film in the Philippines to be filmed with a pair of custom-built Cooke Optics Anamorphic Full Frame Special Flare lenses fitted in an Arri Alexa 35 digital cinema camera. CMB Film Services procured the equipment with the preferred specifications given by cinematographer Pao Orendain. The studio says the cost of the lens alone is enough to produce another film by itself.
      The production team rejected the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board's recommendation to cut out some scenes for a more lenient rating, from R-16 to R-13.


      Release


      Uninvited was released theatrically on December 25, 2024, as one of the entries for the 50th Metro Manila Film Festival by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is also planned to be screened in cinemas outside the Philippines during the film festival's run. The organizers have allowed screenings for the film, provided that it would not be streamed online during the exhibitions' runs.


      References




      External links


      Media related to Uninvited (2024 film) at Wikimedia Commons
      Uninvited at IMDb

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