Boy God, the Filipino child superhero who makes Harry Potter look like a human bedpan

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Hey reader , just what exactly did Harry Potter do ? As far as I remember , he coast on his own legend like an Olsen counterpart , permit Hermione do all the hard thinking , and made out with Ron ’s sister while Ronnie ’s remedial warlock back was turn .

In short , Harry Potter was a genuine backseat überwizard , a real lackadaisical magus . In short , he was the diametric opposite of Boy God .

Who is Boy God ? Why , he was only the wiz of the 1982 Filipino fantasy flickRoco , ang batang bato , which was release stateside as Boy God and in Australia as Stone Boy . Take a second to watch the American poke above . Do n’t attempt to figure out the movie ’s secret plan ( as your synapses will evaporate like fondue ) .

Done yet ? Was n’t that a jimdandy preview ? It had everything ! Dr. Josef Mengele ’s werewolf army ( seriously ! ) , a cyclops , every major picture spoiled ( see below ) , tedious narration that break almost nothing about the movie ’s plot of ground — the work ! As the blogBamboo Gods and Bionic Boysexplains of Boy God ’s plot , the pic is an dental amalgam of your favorite 1980s musical style flicks , plus an immortal male child who must deliver his dead parent ’ soul from Limbo :

Baby Rocco is bear the same night his parents are gunned down outside their firm . long time later , Rocco is now a precocious eleven year old live with his nanna , who warns him to keep his arise ability secret . “ You ’re like limestone , ” she explains – harder under heat , but dissolve in piss [ … ]

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Filipino films are renowned for “ borrow ” factor from other motion picture , and it ’s not just Clash Of The Titans from which the film takes its discriminative stimulus ; there ’s the dwarf army from Time Bandits , and a loup-garou transformation scene cribbed from either An American Werewolf In London or The Howling which , despite its vulgar stop - movement effects with plasticine and Brillo domiciliation , is unnerving enough both in its crudity , and in its family film context .

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You control most of them in the laggard , but here ’s an extended cut of Boy God ’s enceinte kills . ( Those water flea scenes are notably inspire . ) For another watershed second in 1980s Filipino cinema , seeThe Killing of Satan . And for another unheralded warrior tot , seePeach Boy from Magic of Spell .

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