The best Joel Torre’s horror movies

Joel Torre

Joel Torre

If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Joel Torre’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Joel Torre.

DNA

DNA
3.7/10
DNA is a 1997 American science fiction action film starring Mark Dacascos and Jürgen Prochnow, and directed by William Mesa. Filming took place in the Philippines. The film was retitled ADN - La menace for its French DVD release, and Scarabée for its television showing.An evil scientist's DNA experiment on the bones of a mysterious jungle creature brings the carnivorous beast to life.

The Fridge

The Fridge
4/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 19/09/2012
  • Character: Mr. Benitez
Years ago, Tina (Andi Eigenmann) was sent away to the United States to live with her aunt because of an incident involving her parents that has never been explained to her. She moves back to the Philippines into their old home, hoping for a new start. Unfortunately for her, shes not alone in the house. The kitchen is home to a demonic, human-eating refrigerator. Tina must dig into the past to discover the truth about what happened to her parents, and to find a way to defeat the infernal appliance.

The Healing

The Healing
6.5/10
A community rushes to a faith healer after learning that one of them was miraculously healed from a deadly disease by the same person. They are torn apart afterwards as the healing brings them a terrible curse that wreaks harm and death.

Surviving Evil

Surviving Evil
4.2/10
A TV documentary crew arrive on a remote island in the Philippines to film a survival special. Their back-to-the-wild adventure proves to be more terrifying than they ever could have imagined

Spirit Warriors

Spirit Warriors
6.1/10
In this eerie thriller from the Philippines, a group of high schoolers finds themselves contending with more than the usual teen angst issues. It seems they've run afoul of Ulanaya, a menacing, shape-shifting ghost bent on creating terror and pandemonium throughout the land. Can these adolescent, amateur ghost hunters summon the mettle to square off against -- and vanquish -- such a formidable otherworldly nemesis?

Sanib

Sanib
4.9/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 11/06/2003
  • Character: Armando
Melissa is a young woman blessed with great fortune she has a blossoming career in fashion design, a slew of adoring friends, and a fiancé who is no less than the man of her dreams. Everything seems favorable until the night of her engagement party, for she is suddenly beset by visions of her dead sister, Magda. Soon, Melissa realizes that Magda's soul wishes to claim her life, believing that it was the life meant for Magda, had she not died. As Magda takes control of her body, Melissa sees her perfect life crumble.

Of the Flesh

Of the Flesh
7.2/10
A groom takes his city bride to his hometown to settle in his father's house. Struck by her uncanny resemblance to his dead wife, the patriarch is driven to lust after his daughter-in-law. When things come to a head, a violent family quarrel ensues and leads to tragedy. A middle-aged spinster recounts the tale to reveal her identity and trace the downfall of the landowning clan trapped in the past.

Singsing Ni Lola

Singsing Ni Lola
6.4/10
The curse was cast by Dona Guada on the family of GLORIA ROMERO -- any female born to the family will die on the day they turned 18. Gloria Romero as lola possessed a magical ring that is being guarded by a mysterious and furious cat. However, the ring was misplaced and Gina Alajar, as the sacrificing mother, will do everything to save her daughter, Maxene Magalona, from a mysterious and thrilling ailment. The quest for the ring and the feline that guards it creates a mysterious and thrilling theme throughout the movie. The cast is also joined by Allan K as the naive security guard who is later on possessed by thje feline and Aiza Seguerra as the media person who unravels the mystery behind lola's ring, and the cat that oversees the jewel.

Shake, Rattle & Roll III

Shake, Rattle & Roll III
6.6/10
A Trilogy-Horror. In "Yaya" a young couple hires a mysterious nanny for their baby. In "Ate" a young woman discovers that her sister has been dead and been made alive again. In "Nanay" a student unwittingly brings home from a beach field trip the egg of a horrible alien monster.

Wake Up, Maruja

Wake Up, Maruja
7/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 04/09/1978
  • Character: Joel
At the turn of the century, Maruja Isable Sevilla y Mira poisons herself when forced to marry a man she does not love. Several decades later, she is reincarnated as a young producer-actress, Nina Concepcion. Nina is hell-bent on filming the legend involving the couple of ill-starred lovers. However, wandering ghosts and possessions by entities in a haunted ancestral home keep Nina's cast busy. Events come to a height when the past collides with the present.

Hiwaga Sa Balete Drive

Hiwaga Sa Balete Drive
4.8/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 02/06/1988
  • Character: Peter / Uncle Paul
A two-part movie: the first tells the story of a couple who encounters a lady ghost that haunts a house in Balete Drive; the second involves a young boy who witnesses a crime through his "third eye."

Affliction

Affliction
6.3/10
A young girl develops an unknown infection that causes her to evolve into a horrifying monster.

The Diplomat Hotel

The Diplomat Hotel
3.8/10
Victoria Lansang is a popular news reporter who has been requested to mediate a hostage crisis. And in front of a national television audience, something horribly goes wrong and people are killed while Victoria suffers a mental breakdown. A year later, she’s eager to get back into the game. However, the only assignment she can get is to do a documentary on the last night of The Diplomat Hotel in Baguio City, a crumbling and abandoned building infamously known for its bloody past and its hauntings. Looking for redemption, she arrives there with her crew and they start filming. But as they get deeper into the night, the place starts to exert its will on them and they find out exactly what monstrous evil awaits at The Diplomat Hotel. By daybreak, their lives will never be the same again.

Circle of Bones

Circle of Bones
4.9/10
Filipino police investigating a case involving cult massacres and alleged child sacrifices suspect that a former United States FBI agent living in seclusion in an island paradise may be the key to solving this macabre case.

Sa Ilalim ng Cogon

Sa Ilalim ng Cogon
6.2/10
Sam (Yul Servo), a former soldier unintentionally gets disturb in a robbery gone wrong. Escaping with the bag of stolen loot, he hides inside an abandoned mansion where he meets the mysterious young woman Latia (Julia Clarete), bathing nude inside the homes filthy pool. They begin a passionate and blazing affair even as the crime kingpin Johnny B (Dido dela Paz) and his armed men launch a desperate search for the money.

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