Friday, December 12, 2008

70s TV ANTHOLOGY: "MALIKMATA" (1972)


Malikmata, a Tagalog horror series was aired over ABC-5 in 1972, with Lupita Concio (Kashiwahara) at the helm. Lino Brocka later took over.

According to one article--- “While Brocka never had Hitchcock’s trademark morbid humor in Malikmata, most of his episodes left a deep psychological impact that often haunted the viewer in his dreams at night. Brocka blends camp and gruesome high jinks in one episode entitled “Kanibal” with Ramil Rodriguez as a hunter who brings home a hauntingly-beautiful savage cannibal (Maggie de la Riva) to be his wife. Another spine-chilling episode was entitled Ilusyon ith Perla Bautista as a wife left by her husband (Ronaldo Valdez) for another woman. Bored with her life as an abandoned wife, she develops an interest in the Ouija board and begins befriending spirits in the process.” Both episodes ended in a rather bizarre and strange manner.


Malikmata didn’t last very long on television. It was cancelled along with all the other shows upon the declaration of martial law in September 1972.


Source: Lino Brocka: The Artist and His Times/1993


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