Mill Creek Entertainment has selected Sept. 15 as
the street date for the DVD debut of writer/director Chris W. Freeman’s Evil
Takes Root: The Curse of the Batibat.
Felix Fojas (Nicholas Gonzalez — as Dr. Neil
Melendez in The Good Doctor television
series, plus such films as The Purge: Anarchy, Pray for Rain,
Beneath Us, etc.) is something of a paranormal
investigator, but it’s always been detached, impersonal … until now. His friend, Amanda (Constance Brenneman) has
gone missing after a mysterious phone call and he has been contacted by the
local police to help out.
His investigation leads him to believe that she may
have fallen victim to a Filipino/Ilocano spirit known as the Batibat. He knows it is a myth, a folk tale, but
mysterious tree markings near Amanda’s home in rural Ohio offer clues to this
creature being a reality.
Sarah (Stevie Lynn Jones — The
Tribes of Palos Verdes, Is My Daughter Really Dead?), Amanda’s
daughter, could be next and Felix sets out to save her by breaking the curse of
the Batibat, a tree-dwelling malevolent spirit.
The local sheriff, Roy Garland (John Churchill — Tentacle
8, The Trouble with Romance, Cellular), is
skeptical at first, but when the “paranormal” becomes all too real, he reluctantly
becomes a believer … there is something definitely amiss in his quiet little
hamlet.
Filmmaker Chris W. Freeman (Sorority
Party Massacre, Mirror Image, Beast Mode)
blends together a creepy horror tale with all the trappings of a police
investigation, throws in some troubled home issues, the occult, witches, a
mysterious priest (played by Adetokumboh M'Cormack) and even manages to make the
local Amish community seem sinister. All-in-all, Evil
Takes Root: The Curse of the Batibat from
Mill Creek Entertainment on Sept. 15 is a total creep-out … stay out of the woods
and stay away from the Batibat!!
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