Yassi Pressman is not a huge horror film fan.
She admitted this to us herself during a recent meeting.
“Matatakutin kasi ako,” she told us. “Bukod dun, magugulatin din ako.”
The admission puzzled us given that we are interviewing her for her big-screen comeback, “Isolated,” which is actually a horror thriller.
She reasoned, “I took on the project hoping to finally overcome my fears.”
Did she?
“Medyo,” she retorted, laughing.
“Actually, it was hard because we had to stay in this old house for the shoot and I just can’t help but imagine someone or something is always lurking the shadows, watching.”
It didn’t help that her assistant also had an eerie experience while inside the same house.
Yassi related, “I was in the living room hoping for a better phone reception when she came rushing in telling me how someone was trying to open the bathroom door while she was bathing.”
Suffice it to say that Yassi didn’t stay in the house except when shooting her scenes.
“Doing this film is a huge challenge for me mentally, physically, emotionally. But I’m glad I took on the challenge. I feel that, somehow, I’m braver now. Or at least I hope so. I mean, this is my first horror film but I’m not discounting the possibility of doing more of the same in the future.”
Film director Benedict Mique, praised Yassi for her performance in “Isolated,” noting, “She is very collaborative. She is willing to go the extra mile to make sure we did every scene right.”
If he has any qualms, it is that Yassi looked too darn hot.
“Sobrang sexy at ganda ni Yassi dito. Actually, we had to exert effort to try and tone it down a bit kasi it might be too distracting for viewers,” Benedict maintained.
Just our luck.
“Isolated” tells the story of Rose (Yassi), a young woman who agrees to become a private nurse to wheelchair-bound Peter (the award-winning veteran actor Joel Torre), who is suffering from dementia.
Peter, who has been living alone for the longest time, has a strange and mysterious personality: He is given to talking to unseen entities.
Rose finds this very off-putting if actually scary.
She would go on to suffer crippling anxiety and sleepless nights living in the house.
Is she and Peter alone in the house, or is there someone or something living there with them?
And what is it?
Also starring Joel Torre, Candy Pangilinan, Wilbert Ross, Gwen Garci, Yayo Aguila, and Denise Esteban, “Isolated” opens in cinemas April 30.
