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Playboy Billionaire Looks Down on Rags-To-Riches Women (FULL ARTICLE:) https://medium.com/@jaysgeronca/evil-playboy-billionaire-goes-up-to-his-penthouse-with-his-sweet-girlfriend-twip13-part-two-ffb9e6376a70

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Evil, Playboy, Billionaire Comes Home with his Sweet Girlfriend: TWIP13 Part 01 (Read Full Article:) https://medium.com/@jaysgeronca/evil-playboy-billionaire-comes-home-with-his-sweet-girlfriend-twip13-part-one-2010f18f0970

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Evil, Playboy, Billionaire Breaks Up with Girlfriend: TWIP13 Part Four

Previously on TWIP13:

Blake Ma is a billionaire whose father owns the building. He is at home in his penthouse with girlfriend Samantha Lee, a nice, kind, beautiful woman — the opposite of Blake.

A woman came earlier, chanting ‘Justice for Denise,’ her daughter.

A ‘poor old woman’ knocked at the penthouse door. Blake said, “People like you are not allowed here.” She responded, “I am always here. I have always been here.”

He slammed the door in the old woman’s face. He tried to call security, but a power outage turned the entire building dark. A strong gust of wind knocked Blake down. The 6-foot vase and large mirror in his entryway CRASHED into a thousand pieces.

***

Hearing the 2 loud crashes in the dark, Samantha ran towards Blake. She tried to turn on the flashlight on her phone, but the lights came back on. She saw Blake in pain on the floor, rubbing his head. She asked him what happened.

Blake told her that a power outage is not supposed to happen in Luxure Towers. They promised back-up power behind back-up power. Also, Blake assumed that a busted air-conditioning unit caused the strong gust of wind that knocked him down.

When Samantha asked who he was talking to earlier, Blake sprang back up and ran outside. He told her about the ‘poor old woman’ selling keropok (fried crackers).

“WHAT?!” Samantha was stunned. She reminded Blake that the penthouse floor is exclusive to YOU, and only for you, Blake.

Blake went inside to call security via landline because his iPhone had no signal. He tried dialing several times, but the line was busy. He stared at the landline phone for a second longer, like he was spacing out. Samantha wanted to comfort her. But then, in anger and frustration, Blake THREW the landline phone to the glass wall. It SMASHED into pieces. Shards of plastic and wires exploded over the marble floors.

Samantha was taken aback. For a second, she was sure that the glass wall would explode. But she remembered what Blake always flexed, the entire building is made of premium double-panel German glass. Blake was still breathing heavily, but Samantha rubbed his back and led him to the master bedroom.

…

Inside the master bedroom…ehem ehem…things get frisky between Blake and Samantha. Here’s how I wrote it in my novella….

With a growl of urgency, Blake yanked off his black necktie, crumpling it in his fist before flinging it aside. He tore open the top of his white dress shirt — buttons popping and skittering across the California King bed — exposing his chest.

They fell into each other again. Blake’s lips trailed down Samantha’s warm neck, lingering on the curve of her throat. His right hand roamed her back; his left squeezed her ass, pulling her close. Their bodies moved in sync, passion rising.

In the middle of the…heat, Samantha opened her eyes. Her blood ran cold. “Ahhhhhhhhh!”

A woman was standing at the edge of the bed. She had long, frizzy black hair and wore a white nightgown. She opened it, revealing a pink lace lingerie set from Victoria’s Secret. Blake’s favorite.

“Blake… Blake…” the woman breathed. “My tongue is heaven on earth, Blake…”

Blake got out of his bed. The barefoot woman walked toward him. Blake pointed at her face, “STOP. I don’t know who you are. I’m calling security.”

He looked around to find his coat. When he found his coat, he pulled out his iPhone to call security, muttered something like, “They just let anyone in here, this is an exclusive building.”

But Samantha is not buying it, not one bit. Blake was busy dialing security on his phone when Samantha called his name twice. “Blake….Blake…,” her voice was quiet but urgent. Blake either….

Did not hear her?

or

Heard her, but ignored her?

“BLAKE!!!”

That snapped him out of it. It was a guttural, cracked voice, almost like a scream. He froze and looked up at her.

Samantha’s face had drained of all color. Her hands trembled at her sides. “Blake,” she said softly, pointing past the woman in white, “Who is she?”

Blake is also confused about who this woman is, “I told you — I don’t know who the f*ck she is. That’s why I’m calling security — ”

“ — Blake,” Samantha cut him off. “I’ve only been with a handful of men in my life. You’re the only one who’s ever said — exact words, Blake — that my mouth is ‘heaven on earth.’”

Ooohhh. It seems Blake enjoys his…‘oral sessions.’

She pointed toward the woman again, this time with her eyes wide open. “Those were the exact words from that B*TCH’S MOUTH!!!”

But Blake said I don’t know who the f*** she is. You don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve never seen her before, things like that.

But then, and this is relatable for us guys, Samantha crossed her arms, hardened her face, and stepped closer to Blake. “Who where you texting all night, Blake?”

Blake told her he was texting client ‘John Lee’. He’s very high-maintenance, and they have a meeting tomorrow. But what he DID NOT tell her is that ‘John Lee’ texted him the picture of a woman in pink and white laced Victoria’s Secret lingerie. This is a context that I didn’t write in the novella. Blake uses code names to hide her ‘women’ from Samantha. Just to CLARIFY, whoever this woman is (codename: John Lee), it’s NOT the same woman standing now in the bedroom. Cheating is HARDER WORK. Just DON’T do it.

Samantha got up, wore her blazer, and picked up her Gucci bag. She muttered ‘waste of time’ under her breath. “Goodbye, Blake,” she said flatly, without looking back.

“I don’t know who she is, Samantha,” Blake said, more desperate than ever, as she walked out of the bedroom.

“Stop lying,” she said without turning around.

“I DON’T KNOW WHO THE F*CK SHE IS!”

“STOP LYING!” she shouted, spinning around.

Blake rushed forward and grabbed her arm. Her Gucci bag fell on the floor.

“You look at me when I’m talking to you, woman,” Blake growled,

“Let go of me, Blake — LET GO OF ME!”

Blake grabbed her arms and pinned her to the wall. “You walk out of here, and we are over.”

“Good!” Samantha said. “I’m counting on it. I deserve someone better than you!”

Blake laughed at the idea. He made fun of a guy in Samantha’s law school who seemed to have a crush on her, “A chubby broke guy with a small d*ck drowning in student debt.”

Samantha told Blake that he is a lowlife, like his father. He would f*** a traffic light if it wore a skirt.

Blake tried to defend his father, “Don’t bring him into this.”

But Samantha asked why not. Who is your mother, Blake? Have you met her? Does your father even know who she ? “Or is she just one of the many faceless wh*res he knocked up? Twenty kids, twenty mothers. Your dad treated women like garbage — and guess what? You turned out just like him.”

Here’s the ‘Yo Mama’ part of my novella, but they talked about daddy issues. Blake said that your father is not a saint either, he just PRETENDED to be. He acted like ‘father of the year.’ But the second he got rich, he f*ck*d a car show girl YOUNGER than YOU, Samantha.

Oh Snap!

This is all true. Blake’s dad is oligarch-rich. Samantha’s dad is rags-to-riches rich. Samantha, of course, defended her dad. She said that he ‘had a moment of weakness’, and he apologized to her and her mom.

But of course, Blake weaponized this. He said that this is the favorite excuse of douch*bags like us. “You and your BORING mother FORGAVE him. You bought the b*llsh*t, and forgave DADDY.”

Blake said at least his dad was unapologetic. He created a system to pay off women he impregnated, and then have an army of housemaids raise the babies. This is why Blake turned out the way he is. He never felt the love of a mother or a father.

“Is that what you want, Blake? To be like your dad.”

Blake stepped forward. Samantha stepped back.

“No,” he said quietly. “I want a family. I want to come home to a beautiful wife. I want perfect little kids running into my arms when I walk through the door.”

Blake kept advancing and Samantha kept moving backward until she hit a wall.

He braced his hand flat against the wall beside her head, trapping her. “Because I can always keep a mistress on the side — ”

“ — You’re a monster, Bla — ”

“SHUT UP!” he exploded.

“ — A mistress to keep me entertained when my boring, USELESS wife isn’t enough.”

He leaned closer to Samantha’s face. She instinctively veered away.

“I don’t want to be like my father, Samantha. I want to be like YOURS.”

SMAAACK!

Oh SH****T. That’s exactly what Blake deserves: a hard SLAP on the face. His head snapped sideways. He fell on the ground.

Samantha calmly adjusted her blazer and brushed her hair. She picked up her Gucci bag and walked towards the door.

“Goodbye, Blake,” and then she walked out of the Penthouse.

WARNING:

TWIP13 Part Five titled, ‘Evil, Playboy, Billionaire gets his Karma,’ is where the real horror happens. YOU CAN STOP READING NOW. If you read up to this point, it’s an erotic thriller. But if you continue, I PROMISE YOU there is NO BLOOD. However, it’s still very scary. It’s up to you. YOUR CHOICE.

TWIP13 Part One — https://medium.com/@jaysgeronca/evil-playboy-billionaire-comes-home-with-his-sweet-girlfriend-twip13-part-one-2010f18f0970

TWIP13 Part Two — https://medium.com/@jaysgeronca/evil-playboy-billionaire-goes-up-to-his-penthouse-with-his-sweet-girlfriend-twip13-part-two-ffb9e6376a70

TWIP13 Part Three — https://medium.com/@jaysgeronca/evil-playboy-billionaire-gets-frisky-with-girlfriend-but-then-a-poor-old-woman-knocks-at-38bf39763310

TWIP13 Part Four —https://medium.com/@jaysgeronca/evil-playboy-billionaire-breaks-up-with-girlfriend-twip13-part-four-a83812e8275d

TWIP13 Part Five — COMING SOON

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The Woman in Penthouse 13 is an Asian horror novella with elements of urban legend and erotica. If you love Stephen King and Asian Horror, this is for you, available on Kindle or Paperback.

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Evil, Playboy, Billionaire Gets Frisky with Girlfriend — But then, a ‘Poor’ Old Woman Knocks at the Door: TWIP13 Part Three

Previously on TWIP13:

*You learned that Blake Ma is a billionaire whose father owns the condo building.

*Earlier that day, a woman looking with a group of protesters chanted ‘justice for Denise’, her daughter. She was looking for Blake.

*Samantha Lee is his sweet girlfriend who is the exact opposite of Blake. In the elevator, Samantha saw a ‘poor’ old woman knocking on luxury apartment doors. She looks like she didn’t belong here.

*Blake and Samantha finally arrive at the 50th floor, the penthouse.

***

The elevator doors opened to a spacious and elegant hallway. It was odd that there was only one door in the hallway. And then, it clicked on her.

The entire floor is the penthouse unit.

The penthouse entrance is a grand double door that requires a palm access to unlock. Inside the penthouse foyer, there is a 6-foot-tall all black vase on the left. On the right, there is a large square mirror with a jet black frame on top of a black console table.

In the living room, you see the glorious Singaporean city skyline at night. There is a large black sectional sofa that could fit 20 people.

Without warning, he turned, pulled Samantha hard by her left arm, forcing her beside Blake. Blake groped Samantha’s left breast and squeezed her right leg, pulling it towards him. Samantha tried to pull away, but he leaned in harder — this time kissing her neck, trailing down toward her chest.

Blake kissed her softly on the right cheek, then the left, and finally, one tender kiss on her lips. Then another. And another. The kisses deepened, turning feverish. He tasted of vodka and trouble, and Samantha closed her eyes, surrendering to the moment. A tightness bloomed in her chest, followed by a spreading warmth. He kissed her like a ravenous animal. She squirmed, giggling beneath him, breathless.

Then —

Ding! Dong!

They both heard it. Both ignored it.

Ding! Dong! Ding! Dong! Ding! Dong!

A pissed off Blake got up and walked towards the entrance. Samantha asked who it was, but Blake did not answer.

Blake walked towards a monitor, his high-tech peephole.

On the screen:

An old woman. Smiling. She had a puffy face that was wrinkled, soft, grandmotherly, and her lips curled in a gentle smile. She stood hunched in the hallway in worn-out, mismatched clothes — better suited for someone selling vegetables on a street corner or trinkets on a sidewalk. She knocked a few times on the luxury teak wooden door. But they, she pressed the doorbell again.

Ding! Dong! Ding! Dong!

Blake flung the door open.

“Selling keropok… selling keropok…” the old woman croaked in a hoarse voice. BTW, keropok is fried crackers.

Blake’s face twisted. “Who let you in here?” he snapped. “People like you don’t belong in this building.”

Her smile stayed fixed.

She SLAMMED the door on her face. What a f*ck*ng a$$hole. Who slams the door at an old woman?

An angry Blake tried to call security from his iPhone, but the screen flickered like a CRT monitor.

But then, the penthouse lights flickered. And then, the lights went out. Everything turned black. A sudden gust of wind howled through the foyer. Blake fell on his a$$. He heard a thunderous crash — glass shattering. A few seconds later, another crash echoed through the darkness.

Samantha heard the crash amidst the darkness. She fumbled to open the flashlight on her phone. Before she could, the lights snapped back.

She went to the penthouse entrance and saw Blake seated on the floor, wincing in pain. He was surrounded by shards of glass. Both the 6-foot-tall vase and the giant square mirror fell and crashed.

Samantha asked what happened. Blake said that the sudden gust of wind was probably from a broken air conditioning unit. He also said that we promised zero power outages in the building. Someone will get fired.

But when she asked who he was talking to, Blake suddenly got up and ran outside the door. He said there was a dirty old woman here selling fried crackers.

“WHAT!” Samantha froze. She reminded Blake that the penthouse floor is EXCLUSIVE for residents only, for YOU, Blake.

But Blake recalled what the old woman said, ‘I’m always here, sir. I have always been here.’

But, that’s creepy as f***. What does she mean by, I’m always here. I have always been here. What the f*** is happening here?

However, a young oligarch like Blake did not feel that. He assumed that she was probably a relative of one of the guards or staff, reinforcing his idea to have someone fired.

Walking back inside, Samantha stepped on something odd — a large, blackened, burnt flower.

Who is that old woman?

How did she get inside the penthouse floor?

Did she have something to do with the burnt flower, the power outage, and the flickering phone screen?

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Evil, Playboy, Billionaire Goes Up to His Penthouse with his Sweet Girlfriend: TWIP13 Part Two

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Previously on TWIP13:

*You learned that Blake Ma is a billionaire whose father owns the condo building.

*He is a douchebag who treats everyone on staff like trash.

*Samantha Lee is his sweet girlfriend who is the exact opposite of Blake Ma.

*A woman came to the building chanting ‘justice for Denise’ her daughter. She was forming a small group of protesters before the security guards dispersed them.

***

Blake embarrassed the security guard, “If YOU can’t handle one desperate, MENOPAUSAL woman, maybe you’re not cut out for this job.”

And of course, the guard promised that they could handle her. They just need to be on high alert when she shows up.

When Samantha asked about it, Blake said it’s just legal stuff. He told Samantha she’s excited to show him his penthouse.

Blake and Samantha entered the condo building like the King and Queen of France. Everyone on staff bowed and greeted them. Samantha smiled and bowed to everyone. Blake walked straight ahead, not looking at anyone on the eye. That’s the douchebag oligarch training he learned from his dad.

The concierge, a woman in her 40s, bowed and greeted Blake and Samantha. She handed Blake the penthouse keycard with the politeness of a Japanese businessman, holding the tip of the card with both hands while handing it to Blake as she bowed down.

Blake snatched the keycard and asked, “Where’s the pretty one?”

The concierge was flustered with the insult. Samantha was also flustered.

But Blake poured salt into her wound. He said that it’s only right that the prettier concierge is on the day shift, and she got the night shift.

Blake and Samantha entered the elevator, on their way to the penthouse. As soon as the elevator closed, Blake wrapped his arm around Samantha, kissing her neck and groping her chest. Samantha tried to push him away, but Blake said, “I freakin’ own the building. I can do whatever I want.”

DING!

An elderly woman entered, a portly woman who carried himself with poise and grace. She is Mrs. Koh, a family friend of Blake’s dad. She greeted the couple. Blake and Samantha greeted her back. Blake introduced Samantha as his girlfriend. Polite and respectful greetings all around.

DING!

The elevator door opens on the 11th floor. Mrs. Koh knows that Blake lives on the 50th, the penthouse floor. She said that’s too high for me. They exchanged pleasantries before she stepped out of the elevator.

She felt guilty. Unlike Blake, Samantha wasn’t born rich. As a kid, her dad was a security guard, and her mom was a factory worker. To make things worse, they got fired when the factory closed. They opened a tiny store, but could barely afford rice and noodles. Life was hard. Her parents did not take days off. It took them more than a decade, but that tiny store, matched with the 2000s ecommerce boom, made her parents millionaires. They are nothing compared to Blake’s dad, Aristotle Ma, a billionaire oligarch, but life is now prosperous and abundant for Samantha’s family.

All her life, Samantha had a scholarship to a school for rich kids. And you know how that goes. She got bullied, A LOT. She did have friends. There are some genuinely nice rich kids. But some looked down on her. She got plenty of pitying glances and backhanded compliments. She recalled her father’s words, ‘Control your emotions. Don’t let them control you.’

Samantha liked Mrs. Koh. She asked Blake to invite her for dinner. But she was surprised that Blake does not like Mrs. Koh. Blake said that she once said that living on the penthouse floor is ‘outlandish’ and ‘gratuitous.’ Blake took that personally.

Samantha told Blake that maybe she’s not into that kind of lifestyle. Also, some people don’t like living on higher floors. But for Blake, what’s the use of money if you don’t show it off?

“She could buy ten penthouses if she wanted,” Blake said. ” But no — she picked the smallest two-bedroom and acts like she’s above it all.”

She accused her of false modesty and false humility. He also shaded Samantha. Because like her, Mrs. Koh didn’t come from money either.

“That’s the problem with people like her, and people like you,” Blake said.

“People like me?” a peeved Samantha responded.

“Yeah. Rags-to-riches types. You never let go of the ‘rags’ part. You wear humility like a badge of honor. But what’s the point of being rich if you still live like you’re broke?”

The air felt heavy and awkward as the elevator climbed up to the penthouse. Blake felt it too. He apologized and told Samantha that they would invite Mrs. Koh for dinner.

DING!

After what feels like eternity, they finally arrive at the penthouse floor.

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The Woman in Penthouse 13 is an Asian horror novella with elements of urban legend and erotica. If you love Stephen King and Asian Horror, this is for you, available on Kindle or Paperback.

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Evil, Playboy, Billionaire Comes Home with his Sweet Girlfriend: TWIP13 Part One

This is from my story The Woman in Penthouse 13 (TWIP13). It is almost midnight when Blake Ma comes home to his luxury apartment in a ROARING Bugatti Veyron. He lives in Luxure Towers, the most high-end and exclusive apartment in Singapore, and his dad owns the building. The media dubbed it the billionaire’s playground.

A doorman tried to open the passenger door, but Blake beat him to it. The nervous doorman greeted Blake, but he responded, “You’re too slow. I’ll tell them to fire you.”

What a power-trippin’ a$$hole.

The doorman felt the nerves in his chest. Blake had fired people for less in the past. Blake also wore what society magazines might call ‘douchebag chic.’ It’s an all black suit with a white dress shirt inside. The buttons are opened, revealing some of his chest. He even wore a Burberry Scarf.

Blake threw his keys to a fat security guard, but he missed them. The guard struggled to pick it up. Before he could pick it up, Blake kicked the keys away. The fat guard stumbled on his buttocks.

“Somebody help this miserable piece of sh*t,” Blake said

But there’s another passenger in the Bugatti, and she allowed the doorman to open the door for her. She was perfect, kind, and graceful. She had the type of confidence that an honor student would have. She is Samantha Lee, the girlfriend of Blake Ma. No judgement, maybe she’s into bad boys. At least they are both 25, age-appropriate, unlike Blake’s dad, Aristotle Ma. He is 76, but he’s as horny as a teenage boy. Blake has 20 siblings with 20 different mothers or something like that. Blake doesn’t even know who his mom is. Aristotle Ma f*cks random women, and then he gets the baby and has housemaids raise them. He throws money at the problem because he has A LOT of it. Aristotle is a powerful oligarch with connections to other oligarchs and politicians, mostly from China, the United States, Russia, South Korea, North Korea, and the Philippines. He has been building properties since the 80s. Luxure Towers is his 13th condo building.

But maybe the fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree. Blake is salaciously texting with someone all this time. She got a nude photo, but Samantha asked whose texting him. But the professional playboy that he is, Blake quickly deleted the entire conversation and told Samantha it was an eager client.

A cautious security guard approached Blake and pulled him to the side. He told him about the woman who came back again.

“She was chanting, ‘Justice for Denise,’ her daughter,” the security guard said. “A crowd had already started gathering near the main gate before we broke it up.”

Blake scoffed. “I told you — if she shows up again, tell her to talk to my lawyer.” He shook his head in irritation. “That was years ago. She just wants a payout.”

That’s some weird, intriguing sh*t.

Whose Denise?

Why is her mother chanting for justice?

What the f*** is happening here, Blake?

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The Woman in Penthouse 13 is an Asian horror novella with elements of urban legend and erotica. If you love Stephen King and Asian Horror, this is for you, available on Kindle or Paperback.

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Hapunan (Dinner) Game 2025 TRAILER REVIEW: Filipino Horror Story Game

The trailer begins inside a wooden shanty house with a CRT TV. For context, I am Filipino, and many homes in our country are more modern than this one. However, a lot of families still live in small wooden shanties. This is still realistic in 2025.

The radio crackled. It’s Tagalog, but in English, it said, “10 people already died in Barangay (village) Sakdudol. Be careful, and if possible, don’t leave your house.”

This is a metaphor of real life horrors in the Philippines. In 2016, former President Rodrigo Duterte implemented a War On Dr*gs. According to the Human Rights Watch and the University of the Philippines, 12,000 Filipinos died, at a minimum. They are not sentenced, but are alleged illegal dr*g users and sellers. Former President Rodrigo Duterte is now in prison under the ICC (International Criminal Court), awaiting trial.

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Back to the trailer. It cuts to nighttime. We, the POV character, is walking with a flashlight. The setting of the game is a province far from metro areas. Most of the area is farmland, trees, and wooden shanty houses far apart from each other.

You hear the voice of a woman, possibly the mom of the household.

“We need to leave this place, ASAP,” the mom said. “We are no longer safe here.”

It cuts to a family inside the house. It’s a dad with a kid on his lap, and the mom is beside.

“But we can’t leave,” the dad responded. “This is the only house we could afford.”

“You are only thinking of money,” mom said. “I’m thinking of all our lives. I can’t live when one of us dies.”

“Okay, we’ll leave tomorrow,” the dad said. “Niko, sell the last balut so we have extra money to relocate.”

They showed a wicker basket of balut, a duck egg that is a popular street food in the Philippines. In Hapunan, you play as balut vendor Niko, who gets caught up in a deadly situation. It starts with simple tasks like selling and obtaining business permits. But then, you’ll discover dark secrets involving people in town.

A series of quick cuts:

You are walking the hallways of the barangay hall, a small government village office building.

You are walking among trees and prairie at night.

You found someone doing something inside a storage room, but then the guy caught YOU snooping.

You are hiding inside a wicker room or house as you see shady men get out of a van.

You are inside a safehouse as 3 shady men point a gun at YOU.

You’re dad is doing a countdown, “1…2…3…4….5….”

You are hiding as 2 shady men appear. They are looking the other way, not seeing you.

“SHOOT THEM!” dad shouted.

The trailer ends.

Great game trailer. I believe game designer Yikon made the entire thing, probably all by himself. You can get Hapunan here.

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I also wrote an Asian Horror novella with elements of urban legend and erotica — The Woman in Penthouse 13, available on Kindle or Paperback.

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The Eye (2002) Trailer Review: After Eye Surgery, Surprise! You Can Now See Ghosts?

This one hits close to home as I had eye surgery too at a young age. On red text over a black background….

Based on a true story

I’m immediately suspicious every time I read this. Anyway, the trailer began with bandages being removed from a woman. I’ve never had this experience. I had surgery, and I woke up with an eyepatch bandage. Mine wasn’t as dramatic as a bandage over my entire head.

She lived in the dark for 19 years….

This is incredible. It’s the first time this person will see in her life. They removed the bandages, but her eyes are still closed.

until one day…

The main character is Kar Mun. She slowly opened her eyes. It’s the first time I’ve seen opening the eyes as a very intense scene. It cuts to her in a car wearing glasses with dark shades. That makes sense. It’s the first time this person will see light. The joy lasted for literally 2 seconds. She looked puzzled. An old man in a suit was standing in the middle of the road.

BTW, this is a Hong Kong and Singapore production. But this is a trailer aimed at the Western audience. It has that cheesy ‘trailer voice’ narration.

You trust your eyes…

Kar Mun wakes up in the middle of the night. It is a dark wooden room with the picture of a married couple on the wall. In a flash, the room changes. It’s now a modern-looking room with a desk, a chair, and some things.

You rely on your senses…

First of all, this is the first time in her life that Kar Mun had eyes. She doesn’t know how eyes are supposed to work. Someone has to explain to her that your vision is not supposed to flash back to the past, or see a shadowy woman with a blurred face in the corner of the room, which is exactly what the next scene is.

You think you’re alone, but you’ll never be sure again…

I feel bad for this woman. Maybe she’s thinking I shouldn’t have gotten that eye surgery. There’s also a weird scene that they’re randomly showing of a woman writing something on a mirror with lipstick.

There is more to fear than you could see…

In a restaurant, a woman carrying a baby looked at Kar Mun from the outside, looking through the glass. But then, and this is weird, the black-purple tongue of the mother licked the glass wall.

How could you trust that they are real…?

Inside a dark elevator, Kar Mun is alone with another passenger, a smaller, older man. The man floats in the air. He slowly rotates to face her. It is revealed that his face was seemingly chopped in half.

All this time, someone is still writing something on a mirror with a lipstick.

The Eye

They showed the title card through an old horror movie trick. It’s when hands seemingly protrude through your wall, like it’s cloth or rubber. I’ve seen that before in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).

It’s revealed that Kar Mun is the one drawing her face using lipstick.

What should you do when you can’t even look at yourself at the mirror anymore?

The final scene of the trailer is her looking at the mirror, but she has no face.

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Pang Brothers. From the directors of Bangkok Dangerous. CAST: Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou, Chutcha Rujinanon

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I also wrote an Asian Horror novella with elements of urban legend and erotica — The Woman in Penthouse 13. It’s available on Kindle or Paperback.

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IT: Welcome to Derry (2025) TRAILER REVIEW: Bill Skarsgård, Jake Gosden, Chris Chalk

The trailer begins on a cold winter evening. A kid hitchhikes a car. It’s an older couple. The woman said, “You poor thing. Get in, before you get your debt of cold.”

“Tell us where home is,” the dad said.

There are 3 people in the car — the mom, dad, and a teen girl. At first, I thought the kid was sus. He also wore a red jacket and a yellow ushanka — the colors of Pennywise. But the next scene assured me that the kid is not a villain.

“Now you just tell us where home is,” the dad said. “We’ll get you back to your parents safe and sound.”

The kid paused for a few seconds…and then he said, “Anywhere but Derry.”

It cuts to daytime. It’s a nice aerial shot overlooking the town of Derry. The music is a nice upbeat 1960s tune. It feels like an old town suburb. In red and white text, they printed on the screen…

Maine

1962

A woman stepped out of a car. An excited kid ran towards and hugged his dad, actor Jovan Adepo. Actor Taylour Paige and Jovan Adepo hugged. They are a family who just moved to town. They have a nice house and a front lawn. It’s the American Dream. They are an African-American family. You know how it is in the 60s. Jovan and Taylor waved to one of their neighbors. The older white woman did not wave back, quickly tilted her head away from them, and walked faster.

BTW, let me break down the timeline for you. The original IT novel was set in the 1950s (for kids) and the 1980s (for adults). But this series is set in the universe of It Chapter One and It Chapter Two, released in 2017 and 2019. It Chapter One with the kids is set in 1988. It Chapter Two with adults is set in 2019.

It cuts to Derry High School. Students are walking by. Two girls are talking beside the school sign, one chewing gum, and another holding a book, about to pop the bubble (of the gum).

“Today is four months,” said a teen boy, “and they never even found the body.”

Two teen boys and a teen girl are looking over some files. It shows two posters of missing girls. One is an Asian-looking girl with a $1,000 reward. The other is a white girl with the words MISSING on top of the poster and ‘Information Wanted as to the Whereabouts of’.

“That means murder,” the other boy said.

The teen girl in the middle looks puzzled as she looks at the faces of the two boys. On their faces, you can read the expression, ‘What the fudge is happening in this town?’

Back to Taylour and Jovan as they have a serious conversation with their kid. It cuts to them having dinner with a guest, actor Chris Chalk.

“This business with the missing kids,” Taylour said, “do I need to be concerned?”

Chris Chalk has a stern face, but looked at her with a head movement and facial expression, as if saying, ‘Just be careful, and watch your kid.’

I can only imagine the stress of raising an African-American family in 1960s Derry in this universe. They have 2 problems — 1. racism and prejudices, and 2. that f*ck*ng clown.

And then, you get an iconic scene that is now familiar. You’ve seen it in the 2016 IT and Stranger Things. It’s a group of kids cycling over the non-busy roads of 1960s Derry.

Back at home, an older woman told Taylour, “Never a bad idea to keep the people you love…close.” That’s pretty ominous.

It’s good to know that the director of 2017’s IT will also direct this one, Andy Muschietti. And Bill Skarsgård will reprise his role of Pennywise.

A boy’s voiceover said, “No adult will ever believe what we saw….”

There is a man fishing on a lake during the day. It cuts to the man’s face getting shoved underwater. It cuts to the water bubbling.

“…I wouldn’t,”

“There’s a history of stuff happening like this in Derry,” another boy said. I think it’s the kid of Taylour and Jovan.

Four teenage girls are talking. A girl in big round glasses saw something. It cuts to a sweating security guard inside a police station, GRINNING like a creep while looking at the girls. He opened his right arm to wave at the girl.

Four teens, two boys and two girls, are talking to an authority figure, probably the chief, inside the police station.

“You kids keep your noses out of police business,” said his gruff voice. But then the police chief gave them a small, creepy smile without showing his teeth. Still creepy.

In black and red text over a black background, which looks like bricks from under a sewer…

Go Back To Where IT All Began

It cuts to 5 teens talking. 3 girls and two boys. An older girl said, “I heard voices, in the pipes. ”

It cuts to one of the teen girls looking at her green bathroom sink. You hear the laughing ‘clown’ from the pipes. The girl screamed.

A teen boy is talking to his parents, “Have you ever heard of something like that?”

His parent’s face look puzzled and suspicious. I have been casually exploring the Stephen King Universe with the YouTube channel Stephen King Book Club. There have been newspaper clips, old posters, and rumors about missing kids since the 1800s. His parents might have heard something over the years.

A series of quick cuts:

The kids entered the cinema at night.

You get a very CREEPY scene of a woman smiling behind a glass door. And then, a red balloon appeared beside her.

A woman or a teen in a grocery had all the products around her dropped to the floor like there’s an earthquake, even if there’s no earthquake.

A very scared boy, the kid of Taylour and Jovan, said, “There’s something bad, here, in Derry.”

A group of teenagers appears trapped as they run out of the cinema, but the cinema doors are locked.

A teen girl SCREAMS with blood all over her face.

In the sewer, you hear the laughter of a clown as the silhouette of Pennywise Walks slowly.

***

I also wrote an Asian Horror novella with elements of urban legend and erotica — The Woman in Penthouse 13. It’s available on Kindle or Paperback.

IT: Welcome To Derry releases on October 2025 in HBO Max.

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Ju-On ‘The Grudge’ (2002) TRAILER REVIEW: Takako Fuji, Yuya Ozeki, Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito

The trailer doesn’t give you room to breathe. The main character Rika, looks up at the 2nd-floor loft. You hear the screech of a door opening. The POV camera is what Rika sees. Looking up at the loft, she looks at the staircase.

This is where you hear that disturbing guttural croak that seems to bubble from a crushed throat. YOU can try it. Open your mouth wide and make a sound with your throat. I don’t think this movie would be as iconic without that sound.

You see the frightened, flustered face of Rika looking up. For a second, she looked confused. And then, it peeked. Whatever the f*** it is, it looks like a woman with a powdery white face with thick disheveled hair and blood coming out of her eyes. The sound score was a big element of the film’s atmosphere.

The woman crawled down. There is blood in its arms. Her neck jerked and twisted unnaturally with a crack in every movement. For a second, I thought her body was blood and guts, like a blob of flesh. Thank God it’s not. It’s just white but covered in blood. The ‘woman’ continued crawling down the staircase. Rika fell to the floor in fear. The ‘woman’ crawled until the bottom of the staircase, reaching out to Rika with her right hand. It crawled closer, and closer, to Rika, and YOU.

With blood all over its face and mouth open, the final scene of the trailer is the ‘woman’ reaching out to YOU. But it feels like it is asking for help.

In red Japanese text over a dirty-white background, they showed the title card…..

JU-ON: The Grudge

I love it. It’s a simple, minimalist, and effective creepy trailer. The guttural croak, known now as the ‘death rattle’ is iconic. The other iconic thing about Ju-On is the child.

***

BTW, I wrote an Asian Horror novella with elements of urban legend and erotica — The Woman in Penthouse 13. It’s available on Kindle or Paperback.

***

Trivia: Ju-On was a big hit in Japan (obviously), Spain, and Taiwan.

I was so scared and anxious during my first high school prom. To counter the fear, I thought that I should watch something scarier. You guessed it, I watched The Grudge.

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A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) TRAILER REVIEW: Im Soo-jung, Yum Jung-ah, Moon Geun-young, Seung-Bi Lee, Kim Kap-soo

The beginning of the trailer is very deceptive. You are in the car, travelling outside the city. All you see is nature — plants and green views. It’s quite nice and relaxing. Even the music is deceptive. It’s a nice acoustic tune with guitar strums.

Two sisters step out of the car, Soo-mi and Soo-yeon. They are looking around at the views and the nature around them. I’m not a fashion expert, but here’s how the 2 sisters dress. It could be part of the story.

Soo-mi wore a bright red cardigan or light jacket, which stands out against her darker blue inner shirt. She might be the fun, casual, modern sister. It’s very nice, it reminds me of my college friends.

Soo-yeon wore a simple, long-sleeved, earth-toned top, possibly a muted brown or beige sweater or a thick t-shirt. It looks old and worn, indicating she might not care about her appearance. You can assume the sisters came from the same background. This is not a rich girl — poor girl situation.

The two sisters sat on a wooden dock by the lake. It’s a nice sunny day. They both removed their shoes. Soo-mi lay down on the dock with her arms wide open. Shoutout to all Creed fans reading this, BTW.

Inside the house, Soo-mi moved the hands of a small clock on the wall.

It cuts to the 2 sisters running outdoors in a field. They don’t appear to be glamorous oligarch-rich. I’m not familiar with the social classes in South Korea. But the sisters seem to be from a well-off upper-middle-class family. From my research, Soo-mi is the older sister, around 16, and Soo-yeon is the younger, around 13 to 14.

In red Korean text over a black background, they told us…

A Home of Beauty and Love Beheld

Because of that line, I had to do some research. The 2 are not on a vacation. They are returning to their countryside family home.

You get our first creepy scene, and it’s not even that creepy. It’s the family, with dad, mom, and the 2 sisters, having an eerily quiet dinner in a very dark dining area.

BTW, I only noticed it now. The acoustic guitar music stopped. It’s still not scary, but it’s now a soft piano and violin tune, like an orchestra.

In blue Korean text over a black background…

A world of secret fear that dwelled

The cinematography is still dark. The mom is wiping her lipstick over a double vanity mirror.

Back to red text over a black background….

Though no one seemed to speak a word

It cuts back to the 2 sisters sitting on the wooden dock. Soo-mi is looking at the hands of Soo-yeun.

a neglected pain could still be heard

I suddenly became nervous because the music stopped. And true to my instinct, Soo-mi picked up a bird from its cage, and heartlessly snapped its neck. What the f***?

The camera pans over the dark corridors of the house. The music is now a tense, high-pitched sound.

You see Soo-mi looking around suspiciously in a forest.

You see the sharp gaze of mom looking at someone. There is fire in her eyes. Is she looking at Soo-mi, Soo-yeun, or dad?

An innocent-looking, doe-eyed Soo-yeun looked at the empty bird cage.

You see mom suspiciously looking at someone.

What’s happening in this movie?

You see Soo-mi with a demented looking smile as Soo-yeun stood beside her.

The mom is looking furious at someone.

The dad looked at his reflection in a broken mirror.

Hands picked up blades from a table.

It’s dark, you see the head of a woman, or a girl, twisting to face YOU, as you hear disturbing cracking sounds.

You see the hands of a woman about to touch a bloody cloth or a sack, but then, the screen turned BLACK.

And then…you hear the voiceover of a man, translated in English, he said, “Do you remember what happened that day?”

The scene returned from the black screen. It is Soo-mi lying in bed during the daytime with tears in her eyes. She closed her eyes. The screen turned white. The soft but melancholy piano music returned, replacing the tense high-pitched sound score. In red text over a white background….

Im Su-jeong

Moon Geun-youngon

Those are the names of the two sisters, Soo-mi and Soo-yeon, respectively. They ended the trailer with the title card.

A Tale of Two Sisters

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Once again, I wrote an Asian Horror novella with elements of urban legend and erotica — The Woman in Penthouse 13. It’s available on Kindle or Paperback.

And after reading my book, watch or re-watch A Tale of Two Sisters. It’s one of my favorite films of all time. I did not catch the twist until the very end. It was big hit in South Korea, but it was also a hit in Italy, France, and Hong Kong. In America, it had a steady spike for years in Google trends.

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Stranger Things 5 (2025) TEASER REVIEW: Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Caleb McLaughlin, Gaten Matarazzo, Joe Keery, David Harbour, Natalia Dyer, Winona Ryder, Charlie Heaton, Maya Hawke

Oh boy! This is what we’ve all been waiting for. The trailer begins with Steve opening a sort of metal ventilation latch. Outside, they are in a radio station with the neon sign:

$0,000 WSQK watts

Wait up. I think Steve is in a van. I think they stole some stuff from the radio station to create a mobile radio station using the van. I’m sorry. I’m not familiar with radio and 80s technology.

The next scene is Steve wearing headphones, adjusting the metal hatch in front of radio contraptions. Communication is crucial in the world of Stranger Things. From my research, this is set in the fall of 1987. They didn’t have iPhones back then, as you know. The next scene shows the van leaving, followed by two bicycles.

In a makeshift safehouse, Nancy, Jonathan, Eleven, Mike, and Joyce are listening to the radio. Steve, I think, over the radio, said, “Burn commencing in five….”

The scene cuts to Lucas looking over binoculars and signalling four fingers with his left hand.

“four…”

It cuts to Robin with a group of people in a bunker. Another kid looked around the lights in the bunker — curious, but oddly not scared. I think the residents of Hawkins, Indiana, found out that the ‘Upside Down’ is coming into our world.

“three…”

You get a close-up of Hopper, whispering under his breath, “Come on, come on.” Thunderbolts* Assemble. I’m with you, Hopper.

“two…”

Will, Nancy, Eleven, and Robin looked around as the lights blinked frantically. You also get a scene of Will rubbing his nape, that’s nefarious as f***.

“and….”

In the iconic Netflix neon red text over red smoke-clouds background…

This NOVEMBER

However, let’s clarify that. Netflix is a business. They are trying to create money by retaining our ATTENTION and SUBSCRIPTION. Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 1 (Episodes 1–4) will be released on November 26. I think that’s smart. Late October to early November will be a flood of Halloween stuff and horror media from every country in the world. It’s also right before the Thanksgiving break. Volume 2 (Episodes 5–7) is Christmas Day. But that is not the finale. Incredible, Netflix. The final episode of Stranger Things is Episode 8 on New Year’s Eve.

But they don’t need to worry much. Aside from America, Stranger Things is a big hit in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, South Korea, and Japan.

And then they have that cool scene, which if you were a Stephen King and Steven Spielberg fan, you’ll find it familiar. Military trucks arrive to Hawkins as choppers fly in the air. However, three kids on a bike are going in the opposite direction.

Dustin visits the grave of Eddie Muson. In a red blood or paint, someone wrote Burn In Hell over his gravestone. I forgot why people are angry with Eddie. Maybe they thought he brought the curse to the town.

Dustin’s voiceover says, “After all we’ve been through…”

At a hospital, Max is still unconscious as a crying Lucas holds her hand.

“this thing….”

A Series of Quick Cuts:

Two guys in silver hazmat suits shot a flamethrower at a wall. Very cool scene. Flame and smoke covered the frame.

Joyce and Hopper sat on a bed, reflecting on everything they’d been through.

Nancy, Jonathan, Steve, and Dustin held flashlights, looking over a factory building of sorts as the red lightning and thunder covered the skies.

This next scene reminds me of the kids from Stephen King’s It and Super 8. In the woods, looking over a map, they placed their hands together like a team huddle. Dustin, Mike, Lucas, and Will. It’s emotional, and it made me feel nostalgic being a 90s kid. It’s also a ‘one last time’ as they end this thing and say farewell to us, Stranger Things fans.

Eleven affectionately held Mike’s cheek as their other hands held each other on top of Eleven’s knee. Eleven also wore a shiny, tight red and silver jumpsuit like Ultraman. She is, of course, the ‘superhero’ figure in Stranger Things.

Jonathan seemingly ended Dustin’s monologue by saying, “Forever,” as Nancy cried with him.

Elever covered her mouth like a cowboy bandit, looking determined. It seems her character is the key to ending this thing. In glowing red text…

The Final Chapter

You get an ugly blue and white, obviously CGI scene. Someone, I think it’s a kid, jumped on top of a tree as a Demogorgon tried to reach them. The red lighting covered the sky.

Government agents/soldiers kicked the door and busted in. An older woman was in frame, but I don’t recognize who she is.

You get a very creepy scene of a giant wall, seemingly made of the Upside Down Demogorgon gunk. Maybe the Demogorgons are like an insect colony, and they are building their house in our world.

You get a very Jurassic Park scene — Lucas and Max hiding in a boiler room as the Demogorgon creeps in like Velociraptors. And I love that. The kids hiding in the kitchen as raptors creep in was one of my favorite scenes in the original Jurassic Park.

You see Eleven screaming as she covers her ears as Hopper tries to comfort her. Hopper and Eleven are the most convincing father-daughter duo in the Netflix Universe.

You see a Demogorgon kick the barn door open.

You see Joyce held an axe ready to defend the kids or anyone inside.

You see Mike cock a shotgun and point it at the camera.

The kids are all grown up now. Finn Wolfhard, who plays Mike, is 22 in 2025. Millie Bobby Brown is 21.

You see a woman and a little girl trapped in water inside some sort of contraption. Is that Eleven and her real mom?

Robin looks up at a satellite because smoke is seemingly crawling up to it.

You see Nancy crying as she washes blood from her arms. Natalia Dyer is a great actress. After Winona Ryder, I think she is the second-best actor in the series.

You hear the voiceover of Hopper, “Wherever this blood leads, I need you to fight one last time.”

You see a touching scene of Steve hugging a crying Dustin. Oh my God! Who died? I don’t even wanna think about that now.

You see a very determined Eleven in a lab as Hopper points a gun at the door. They are waiting for someone, or something, to enter.

“Let’s end this, kid,” it was revealed that Hopper is talking to Eleven. Great scene, as Eleven submerges in water. Hopper threw 2 grenades, and you get an explosion.

Next, you get a series of very quick cut scenes. It’s too much, but here’s what I caught:

Lucas is seemingly trapped with a wall behind his back.

Robin and Brett are talking. Brett looks like a trucker now. To refresh your memory, Brett is the journalist/conspiracy theorist character with glasses and a beard.

You see a car chase. Soldiers running through the woods. Eleven with a girl holding a gun. Eleven jump and float above a school bus. A Demogorgon jumps out of the air.

And then you get that iconic scene of ‘shocked characters looking at something’. You see Joyce looking at something, and then Mike, as the camera zooms in on their face. And then you see the shadow of some sort of creature.

The radio from earlier keeps changing the number, but now it stops in…

100BB, or something like that.

The screen turns black. You hear beeping sounds. A scary, hoarse voice said, “Found YOU.”

And then you finally see the back of a monster, possibly a giant monster, and this one could talk, which I’m not a fan of when a monster can talk in our language. It’s not the giant 8-legged monster you’ve already seen from previous seasons. This is a humanoid-ish creature that could talk. It looks like it’s covered in tree roots. I think this is the BOSS of all the Demogorgons and the giant 8-legged-monster, which in Dungeons & Dragons is called a Thessalhydra. For now, let’s call it the Final Boss or the MegaloGorgon.

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The Woman in Penthouse 13 is my novella, it’s Asian horror with elements of urban legend and erotica. Fans of Stephen King, Stranger Things, and Asian Horror would love this. Available on Kindle and Paperback.

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Hereditary (2018) TRAILER REVIEW: Milly Shapiro, Toni Collette, Alex Wolff

The trailer begins with a model house. It zooms in on the bedroom. A man in a suit knocked, entered, and told a sleeping kid, “Come on Peter. Here’s your suit.” It cuts to a burial as you hear a crying woman. In a wake, a woman stepped up to the lectern. It’s Annie (Toni Collette), our main character. She mentioned the many strange new faces here today. She said her mom would be very touched, but also very suspicious. The dead mom is Ellen (Kathleen Chalfant).

A child among the visitors is sketching a woman. Her name is Charlie, played by Milly Shapiro. She has cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD) in real life, a rare genetic condition affecting bone and tooth development.

They showed the mom lying in the coffin, which is always unsettling. Back to the lectern, Annie said that her mom is a secretive and private woman. They showed a hospital bed. You assume that her mom was bedridden. But then it’s Annie making a miniature of the hospital. She’s currently working on the model of a doctor. She’s passionate about this miniature thing. She even wears a magnifying visor.

Okay. Right up top, what the f*** is happening in this movie? What’s up with the scale models? I used to work in real estate. I’ve seen hundreds of scale models. But it’s rare to see an individual have that as their hobby. The only person I know is also a fictional character — Alec Baldwin from the original Beetlejuice.

Cool scene. The sound was like a light switch. Daytime in the woods became night. On the screen, you see…

From the Producer of

The Witch

Charlie is now in bed, seemingly hiding under her blanket. She drew Grandma in a notebook. Annie pointed out, “Is that grandma? You know you were her favorite, right?” Annie told Charlie that even when she was a baby, she couldn’t feed her because grandma wanted to feed her. Mmmmmmm. That’s weird. I sense some mother-daughter tension here. It cuts to one of Annie’s models, her in a bed holding a baby while Ellen is standing beside her seemingly bossing her around.

Generational trauma and family tensions are the huge themes of the movie. There’s always tension if your parents tell you how to raise your kids. Many people could relate to this tension between the grandparent, parent, and the child. And it sucks if you’re the child because you don’t understand the tension between mom and grandma. No wonder this film became a hit in America, the U.K., Canada, Australia, France, and even South Korea and Japan.

Back to the lectern, Annie said that her mom was a ‘very difficult’ woman, which also explains her.

A woman approached Annie while she was in her car. The woman said, “I recognize you from your mother.”

They had a very cool scene of Annie staring at a model of her mother standing on a window or door facing her, as if she were facing herself.

The next line is, “I swear I could feel her in the room.” You get a scene of Annie looking across her dark bedroom as she sees her mom on the other side, not the ghost of her mom, her actual mom. Maybe this is also our subconscious fear of ‘we become our parents.’ We all have that fear because we are all children. Many people don’t want to become their parents. Some people outright HATE their parents. So it’s scary to think that as you grow older, you slowly become (like) them.

Another great scene. A crow crashed in Charlie’s classroom window. Kids were shocked. But in the next scene, you see Charlie, I think it’s Charlie, cutting the head of the crow with scissors.

Annie told another person, “She (my mom) isn’t gone.”

“An Unsettling Look at What Demons We May Have Inherited from our Parents.” — Richard Lawson Vanity Fair

Anyway, Charlie is walking in a park while holding the dead crow. On a voiceover, you hear Annie telling someone that Charlie has private rituals and private friends. But maybe Annie is seeing herself in Charlie. Not to be judgmental, and I respect anyone with a passionate hobby, as long as it’s not illegal. Creating model houses and figurines doesn’t strike me as an extrovert’s hobby. That is not the hobby of someone who hangs out at a bar every night with new people. And yes, I know someone like that. As a child, Annie might have been someone who built doll houses. Her own mom might have categorized this as ‘private rituals and private friends’ too. What her mom did to her, she is doing now to her child. And that’s scary to realize. You don’t even know you’re doing it.

Charlie, scared on the bed, asked her mom, “Whose gonna take care of me?”

Annie reassured her that she would take care of Charlie.

But then Charlie responds, “…but when you die.” That is scary. Your parents dying is the fear of all kids.

You get another fantastic scene involving the sound of a light switch. Peter (Alex Wolff), the older brother of Charlie, is sitting on a bed at night. You hear the light switch, and it’s daytime. He is now in a classroom. Maybe he was up all night. Peter saw his reflection in a glass office cabinet, grinning and smiling. However, he was not smiling. Suddenly, he, or possibly an entity, smashed his head on his desk. Peter looks scared and panicked as he SCREAMS in fear.

A Series of Quick Cuts:

Peter is walking in the empty classroom hallway. “I don’t like this. Dad, I don’t like this,” Peter said. A panicked voice, probably from Annie, asked, “What’s happening?”

One of their family friends shouted, “PETER!!!”

A shouting Annie said, “Don’t you EVER raise your voice on me! I am your MOTHER!”

It’s a very quick scene. There was a headless figurine in a bed wearing green pajamas. Oh my God! Is that Pe — — Hopefully it’s not. But they did have that scene of Charlie, or someone, cutting the head of a crow with scissors. That could be foreshadowing.

Fire blazing in front of the camera as Annie is cooking something on a frying pan.

Peter is seemingly having a seizure in bed. I think he was also banging his head on the floor as he cried, “Please stop.”

There was a cool scene where you hear bang!-bang!-bang!-bang! as you see hands chopping something with a knife.

You hear a panicked girl’s voice, “Mom, what’s happening?” Is that Charlie?

You see Peter lying on the bed with a burnt face. “Make it stop! Make it STOP!” you hear a voiceover.

You see Annie standing in her living room as a burning man stood in front of her. That can’t be Peter. They wouldn’t chop his head and burn him, right?

Annie is screaming, but you don’t hear her screams. You hear that high-pitched sound like a ringing in your ear.

The trailer ends with Annie saying, “I just don’t wanna put anymore stress in my family.” Very effective scene. She was wearing her magnifying visor, and then she looked at YOU, right straight into your soul.

HEREDITARY

The last thing you see is Annie’s face. But with the glare of light, it changes to Charlie’s face.

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Once again, my novella The Woman in Penthouse 13 is out now on Amazon. It’s Asian horror with elements of Urban Legend, Psychology, and Erotica.

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Shutter (2004) TRAILER REVIEW: Asian Horror, Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, Unnop Chanpaibool

The trailer begins with a sweet and inspiring song — a graduation song, as we see old black and white photos from a few years ago. On a white text over a black screen, we read…

Good memories…

You see more black and white graduation photos, college kids taking a photo, and another one jumping in celebration. This is the photo of our main character, Tun. It feels real, like the real-life grad photos of actor Ananda Everingham.

may not last.

Ghosts In Photos?

And then the music changes to something more nefarious. The black and white photo became wavy. The film’s idea came from the urban legend of ghosts and supernatural entities showing up in photos. It was way more common back in the day, kids — when your parents and millennial aunts and uncles took photos using a film camera. These cameras used film — a super-sensitive strip of plastic coated with light-reactive chemicals.

What’s the catch? Anything — a glare of sunlight, a speck of dust, someone moving too fast — could mess up the photo. That’s why you’d sometimes see blurry, wavy faces, weird glows, or ghost-like shadows in old pictures. People think it’s ghosts, but it’s not. Or is it? We’ll never know.

They used the shutter sound throughout the trailer. It’s weirdly creepy. BTW, you’re still familiar with this sound. I believe it’s the same sound in your phone when you take a photo.

Tun takes a graduation photo of a class. Scanning through the students, a white female ghost with a wounded face appeared between two of the students. Tun was taken aback. Talking to the man developing photos, Tun showed his glary photos. He asked the man if your processor is broken? The man got a bit pissed. He still complimented Tun for taking nice photos, but it’s not his fault. BTW, you had to wait 3 to 7 days before you got your photos back in the day. You’d drop the film off at a store, fill out a form, and come back in a few days to see your photos.

Inside a darkroom, the room covered in photos where photographers develop their film, Jane, the other main lead, pointed out to Tun several of his photos with ghosts. They talked to an older man in glasses, probably a mentor character archetype, who told them that these shadows (his term for ghosts), are someone related to the person in the picture. Creepy.

🚘 Blood, Mirrors, and the Girl in White

Jane took a picture in an empty school lab. She looked at the photo, and there were no ghosts. But she looked at the empty space again, and a ghostly apparition of a woman wearing blazers, I think, suddenly appeared. It cuts to Jane driving home at night, and she runs over a girl. The screen turned black, and then you see the girl in white lying on the road. But then, in a flash, the girl is now standing up, staring at Jane in the car, covered in blood. This is what I love about Asian Horror. It’s creepy and atmospheric, unlike American horror, which relies too much on CGI, gore, and sound.

BTW, I also wrote an Asian Horror fiction with urban legend elements and a dash of erotica. The Woman in Penthouse 13 on Amazon. Anyone in the world can read it if you have the FREE Kindle App on your Apple or Android device.

The screen turned black. You hear cameras flashing. They had a creepy scene where, when the camera flashes, you see people like Tun and Jane. But in one of those flashes, you see a female ghost.

Tun flipped through a dozen or so photos. It’s inside a living room with a bookshelf. You see a white apparition ghost crawling up from the floor to the bookshelf. You hear the voice of the older man again. He said, “Why would the dead come back to the living?”

There was a creepy scene of a man jumping out of an apartment building. And then two more guys jumped. It’s cuts to Tun looking at his college photos with friends. Oh my God! Are those Tun’s friends who just killed themselves? In a car, probably talking to Jane, while it’s raining outside, Tun is anxious that he will die soon. Someone is killing off his group of friends one by one.

You get a series of quick cuts:

*A pissed off Tun throws papers in his living room.

*Jane and Tun walking backwards like an unseen entity is confronting her.

*In red lighting, hair is coming out of a bathtub as a hand grabs onto it.

*A single drop of blood dropped in a book page. A girl is reading it in a library. Tun is taken aback. And then, like a plate of blood dropped over the book. What the f***? The girl faced Tun. Honestly, I thought his face exploded, like she got shot with a shotgun on the head. But she just had blood on her mouth and eyes. Still scary. Very effective.

Sometimes….

Tun rose from bed. A photo on the wall fell. There is blood on the wall. The bloody girl suddenly faced Tun.

they just….

Timeout. They are also showing a series of faded blue and white photos. I ike that. It’s a different coat of paint from the black and white photos you’ve seen so far. Anyway, inside the darkroom, with red lighting, a scary woman with arms stretched out is seemingly attacking Tun or Jane. It looks like the same woman Jane ran over.

want to be….

A woman’s hands with red nail polish suddenly came out of a photocopy machine or something. And then the same hands grabbed Tun in the shoulders like claws.

around us.

Inside the car at night, Tun looked to his left at Jane in the driver’s seat. On her window, guess what, it’s the same woman creeping over her window.

SHUTTER

They already showed the final title card. You think you are safe. But this is mother freakin’ Asian Horror. The wise old man told Tun, “These pictures represent more than a macabre urban legend. They are signs.”

The trailer ends with Tun staring at a graduation photo in red lighting. Suddenly, a face appeared between two students.

Once again, The Woman in Penthouse 13 is on Amazon. Anyone in the world can read it if you have the FREE Kindle App on your Apple or Android device.

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A Billionaire Douchebag with his Sweet Girlfriend Comes Home Drunk at Night….

Blake Ma is a billionaire douchebag, and his dad owns the apartment building. He is rude and offensive to everyone on staff. His girlfriend Samantha Lee is the exact opposite. Kind, sweet, and smart, she exudes grace. They come home to the penthouse and things get “steamy.”

Ding! Dong!

Knock-knock-knock!

Someone is knocking at the door. Wait, WHAT? The penthouse floor is exclusive for Blake only. The one knocking is an old woman who looks like she’s unhoused. She sold fried crackers to Blake. As expected, Blake got mad and slammed the door at her face.

What do you think happens next?

This is the TEASER to my novella The Woman in Penthouse 13. It’s an Amazon Exclusive. This is inspired by a Singaporean urban legend which goes like this…

*An old woman sells you keropok (fried crackers) late at night.

*If you don’t buy from her — or treat her with disrespect — she will release a Pontianak: a vengeful vampire ghost.

*What happens when she finds her way inside a luxury penthouse?

You can read The Woman in Penthouse 13 TONIGHT with over 4 million other stories in Kindle Unlimited.

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I’m a Fiction Writer, and I Created My First Story at Age 4

Hi, I’m Jays Geronca, and I just released my first 50-page horror novella on Amazon HERE.

Title:

🩸 The Woman in Penthouse 13 🩸 It’s an Asian horror story with elements of erotic thriller and urban legend. And yes — I have a TEASER at the end.

But first, let’s rewind to 4-year-old Jays.

A Backyard Full of Monsters

You might’ve noticed I said I “created” my first story at age 4. I couldn’t write yet — no keyboard, no pencil, not even a quill pen. I was just imagining scenes in my head like movies.

I was obsessed with action films and cartoons. I’d fantasize alternate ACTION SEQUENCES. Back then, I didn’t know the term fan fiction, but that’s what I was doing. (Shoutout to my fellow pro-wrestling fans — I was fantasy booking, too.)

Not Some Jungle: Welcome to 90s Metro Manila

I live in Metro Manila, a massive, chaotic, and yes — urbanized city. For readers from the G7 (US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan): No, the Philippines isn’t just beaches and coconut trees.

Even in the 90s, we had skyscrapers, malls, and traffic that could compete with LA, Mumbai, or Beijing. There’s a Starbucks 2.5km from where I’m typing, and a McDonald’s just 1.4km away. We’ve had all that before Wi-Fi became a household name.

Temu Power Rangers? Alien Economics?

As a kid, we lived in a beat-up wooden house on a 300 sqm lot (3229 sqft) — not ours, but property of my grandfather’s boss. We were caretakers. The house was modest, but the backyard was my universe.

BTW, they kicked us out from that place when I was 7. They told us that, “We need the property now.” Okay. Fair is fair. We don’t own the property. However, to this day, it’s a vacant lot with plants growing like the Amazon forest. What the f***? Rich families are so weird.

Anyway, in that backyard, as the Backstreet Boys and Nirvana plays on a boombox, I’d imagine a giant mech bursting from underground, piloted by a team of bootleg Temu Power Rangers (of course, I was the Red or White Ranger). They battled aliens and monsters.

Here’s the crazy part: the aliens kidnapped kids to turn them into soldiers. Why? Because kids were “cheaper.” Or in Tagalog: “Para makatipid.”

I even remember the Alien Boss and Minions debating this:

“Adults are stronger,”“Yes, but kids cost less — fewer resources!”

How did 4-year-old me come up with that?

Kidnapping, Ransom, and Selling Organs?

It wasn’t economics. It was fear.

In the 90s, kidnapping was everywhere in Philippine news and media. I remember my titas warning me not to play outside:

“You might get kidnapped for ransom.”

“But we’re not rich,” I said.

“Exactly. They might think you’re rich. You might look like one of the fat rich kids out there.”

Then I asked, “What if they kidnap me and we have no money?”

The answer?

“They could kill you. Or sell your organs — to rich families with sick kids.”

It’s dark. But that’s what I was told. And maybe that’s why I imagined a world where aliens used children as soldier, and only my fantasy Rangers could stop them. I remember imagining dark clouds coming down from the heavens to the ground. And then, all the children became alien soldier.

That was my first story. At age 4. HOWEVER……

The Path to Penthouse 13

The Temu Bootlet Power Rangers were just the beginning. At age 6, I became a fan of James Bond, I’ll tell you why next time. At ages 10 to 12, I became obsessed with Jackie Chan and Jet Li,. I made up a nameless secret agent who had gadgets like James Bond and the martial arts skills of Jackie Chan.

At 16, I wrote a horror short story that won a silver medal. I’ll also share that soon.

It’s been a long road — but The Woman in Penthouse 13 is HERE.

TEASER

An old woman sells you keropok (fried crackers) late at night.

If you don’t buy from her — or treat her with disrespect — she will release a Pontianak: a vengeful vampire ghost.

What happens when she finds her way inside a luxury penthouse?

The Woman in Penthouse 13

An Amazon Exclusive

“I am always here…I have always been here,” the woman whispered.

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The Woman in Penthouse 13: a Pontianak (vampire ghost) horror erotic thriller short story by Jayson Geronca

A Teaser. Preview.

Inspired by the Singaporean urban legend Makcik Keropok, you hear a knock at your door late at night. When you open, a kindly old woman sells you keropok (fried crackers).  If you don’t buy from her, or if you treat her with disrespect, she would release a Pontianak — a vengeful vampire ghost — into your house. What happens when the old woman gets inside one of the most luxurious penthouses in Singapore?

Luxure Towers is the most exclusive apartment building in the city. The media dubbed it the billionaire’s playground—home to billionaires, oligarchs, and secrets best left buried.

Blake Ma, 25-year-old heir and spoiled playboy, returns home drunk and arrogant, with his stunning girlfriend Samantha. But when a strange old woman appears at the penthouse door—selling keropok (fried cracker)—the night takes a dark and twisted turn.

As Blake falls deeper into temptation, seduction, and supernatural horror, a forgotten sin from his college years returns to claim revenge.

She once begged for mercy. Now, she wears a white dress, grows two-foot claws…

…and smiles as she whispers, “I have always been here.”

Inspired by the Makcik Keropok urban legend, The Woman in Penthouse 13 is a blood-curdling tale of lust, betrayal, and ghostly vengeance—with a twist that will haunt you long after the final knock on the guardhouse door.

COMING SOON

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