Omeng Satanasia

One of Dolphy's more critically acclaimed performances. He does have four roles in this comedy. Most stand-out-ish being the evil gay devil making life miserable for the old man wanting another shot at youth, also played by him. A young Babalu is also there for laughs, but not nearly enough as I had hoped.

The thing with a lot of these old features from the Philippines, the movies are long and they want to serve a little bit of everything. And more times than not it makes the experience feel disjointed, as you get your various sequences in sections. Like a drama portion, something sexy, slapstick, music, action, and so on, along with absolute random ideas they improvise along the way. It takes the story in all directions, making things feel absurd and boring at the same time because the composition isn't refined enough to make a connection. You just got to understand that's the way a lot of these films are like, and with that often comes a lot of charm in the rough.

Omeng Satanasia (1977) has a lot of that raunchy 70s feel with mockery down in hell and all kinds of hunt for sexy meat up above. Weird and inappropriate, which was what made the period so vibrant. Not that they manage to keep that vibrancy through-out, but enough to at least make it a bizarre one.