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Charlie Dizon takes on first horror role in ‘Horrorscope’

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Metro Manila Film Festival 2020 Best Actress and Fan Girl star Charlie Dizon is headlining an episode of Horrorscope, an iWantTFC offering that starts streaming on Jan. 13.

MMFF 2020 Best Actress Charlie Dizon leads the stars that topbill iWanTFC’s horror anthology series, ‘Horrorscope.’ 

“Horrorscope is an anthology series about how one’s astrological sign can bring misfortune and terror,” says Ato Bautista, the series creator, producer, and director. 

In the “Virgo” episode Charlie Dizon takes on her first horror role as Ronalyn, an idealistic rookie police officer who is forced by her superiors to join a group of corrupt “ninja cops” in exchange for a promotion.

To be accepted, Ronalyn needs to extract information from and then execute a suspected drug runner held captive by the group, who turns out to be her ex-boyfriend and first love Dado (Fino Herrera). Before her bosses find out about their real connection, Ronalyn then must choose between doing what’s right and saving her own life.

Other episodes feature Elisse Joson, Patrick Quiroz, Fino Herrera, Iyah Mina, and Paolo Gumabao. 

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In the “Leo” episode, Iyah Mina plays the controlling fashion designer Leona, who is mourning the passing of her younger boyfriend Jonas (Paolo Gumabao). Her only wish is to be with him again, so she hires a necromancer to bring Jonas back from the dead.

But raising the dead has its own tragic consequences, and karma befalls the obsessed Leona as her dead boyfriend yearns for her to share his grave.

Patrick Quizon, meanwhile, plays the earnest sacristan Ponce in the “Libra” episode, where he helps a priest exorcise the devil from a mysterious lady named Clarissa (Elisse Joson). During the ritual, Clarissa becomes too strong and her womb swells to give birth to the prince of darkness.

As both of them become overpowered by Clarissa, the priest decides to kill her as a last resort. But Ponce is paralyzed by fear and his conscience, unable to decide whether to help the priest with his morbid solution or save Clarissa and her unborn child.

Standard and premium subscribers worldwide can watch the three episodes of Horrorscope on the iWantTFC app (iOs and Android) or on iwanttfc.com starting Jan. 13.

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