Regular Twitch readers are more than familiar with Filipino director Yam Laranas by this point.  Already a well-established cinematographer and director in his home country, Laranas rose to international attention in 2004 with Sigaw - an impeccably crafted little exercise in atmosphere that I truly believe would have been one of the leaders of the Asian-horror boom had it released just a couple years earlier.  Laranas has since shot an English-language remake of that film and now returns home for Patient X, a new exercise in horror due for release in the Philippines late in October.

A film that promises to be a full-blooded creature feature, Patient X reunites Laranas with his Sigaw star Richard Gutierrez for a story built around the legend of the aswang.  A creature unique to Filipino folklore, an aswang is a sort of humanoid predator, similar to a vampire in that they look outwardly normal and are immortal unless killed under very strict conditions but quite different in that while the vampire is more of a parasite the aswang is a full-on killer, hunting in packs and taking down human prey to eat their entrails.  Check the trailer below!