ELEVEN ARTS TO CARE FOR PATIENT X

by Patrick Frater
Film Business Asia


Los Angeles-based Eleven Arts has taken over international sales duties on Patient X. The action-packed horror film from director Yam Laranas was released in the Philippines in October 2009. Sales were previously in the hands of XYZ Films, a US production, sales and finance outfit, which has now contracted the Ko Mori-headed (森浩太郎) Eleven Arts to bring in the money.

Patient X takes its title from the vampire-like female aswang - a mythical creature in Filipino folkore - who is captured and kept prisoner in the basement of a small town hospital. All hell breaks loose when a trio of zombie-like male aswang siege the hospital to secure her rescue, putting the lives of the other patients and the local police force at risk. The film marks the debut of RGutz Productions, founded by leading actor Richard Gutierrez, which produced the film in collaboration with industry heavyweights GMA Films and Viva Films. Laranas previously directed Sigaw, also starring Gutierrez, which he then remade in the US as The Echo for Roy Lee’s Vertigo Entertainment.