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Director Yam Laranas says that the scariest thing is the unknown, and there’s plenty of that to go around in his latest horror film, “Abomination.” The film, which was just released on iTunes, stars Tippy Dos Santos as a young woman who ends up in a psychiatric hospital after she is found on a city street with no memory of who she is. Her quest to learn her identity leads to a daring escape and a shocking belief — that she is a woman who was brutally murdered two months earlier. As you may have guessed, that leads to a few scares.

60 out of 420 auditionees got callbacks on the first day of the much-talked-about Miss Saigon auditions, spearheaded by British stage director Laurence Connor Miss Saigon, Les Miserables and Cameron Mackintoshs representative in the Philippines, Dong Alegre Miss Saigon, held at the Philippine Opera Companys headquarters in Makati City early today. Experienced thespians Karylle Tatlonghari, Tippy dos Santos, Jake Macapagal, Julia Abueva, Lorenz Martinez, Oj Mariano, Noel Rayos, Cathy Azanza, Kyla Rivera, Cara Barredo, Topper Fabregas, and Jay Pangilinan were among the 60 who made the short list.