Filipinos are familiar with the aswang, a shape-shifting creature of Philippine folklore that preys on animals and humans at night. But while Filipinos' belief in other superstitions has waned over ...

Last week, I stayed in the 432-year-old Hotel zum Ritter St. Georg in Heidelberg. I chose the hotel for its age and the fact that its façade is one of the tourist attractions Rizal saw during his stay ...

Filmmaking is about taking risks, says Erik Matti, writer and director of the biggest horror adventure of 2012, Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles. What else would you call the movie’s astronomical budget, ...

Contemporary Filipinos have humorously deconstructed and reconstructed the aswang and its beastly kin as intimate parts of the Filipino worldview, much like the beasts of ancient Greek mythology What ...