"Tamawo"

An old man named Lando buries something under his house. When he is finished, he encounters a group of white-skinned people. The chieftain demands Lando return something that belongs to them which he refuses. Angered, he and his tribesmen savagely kill him.

Bikbok moves to an isolated town with his blind mother Isay, his baby brother and his discontented stepfather Allan to survive poverty where Allan can take charge at the farm after his uncle Lando died earlier. The next day, Allan finds something under the house where he encounters the object buried by Lando earlier which reveals to be a crystalline egg. At night, Bikbok watches outside and notices the white creatures watching him.

The next day, Allan's cousin Pey takes Isay, Allan and Bikbok to Aling Epang to cure their baby. As Bikbok collects some water, he sees a group of sparks and decides to follow it. He stops by and plays at the waterfall before noticing the same creatures earlier are watching him. The chieftain orders his tribe to catch him as Bikbok runs. He attempts to escape but the creatures corner him. The chieftain tells him to give back something which it was stolen but Bikbok assures that he and his family didn't steal anything.

The chieftain tells him that if he does not return it otherwise on the third day at night when the new moon arrives, he and his family will be in danger. Bikbok runs to Aling Epang for help and tells her what he saw. Epang realizes the white creatures are the Tamawos, a group of fairy people who are creatures and tribal warriors who take away people. After Bikbok tells her about what they have stolen, Epang tells him that he needs to find out what they have stolen because the tamawos will never stop until it is returned. Meanwhile, Pey is killed by the tamawos when he encounters them at the forest. At night, Bikbok and his family are attacked by the tamawos with Allan having his foot injured in the process.

After Epang heals his injury, Bikbok tries to tell him his story but Allan distrusts him. Allan walks to the forest and finds Pey's mutilated body. Horrified and grieved, they decide to leave. When Bikbok enters Allan's room, he finds the crystalline egg with a baby inside, realizing it is the object that the tamawos were looking for. The next day, Allan decides to take revenge on the people who killed Pey when the ranch owner blames him on the incident. He returns to the house but decides to leave when he finds the egg gone.

When Isay tells Bikbok that he stole it, Allan threatens Bikbok but Isay hits him to protect her son. When Allan threatens Isay, she urges Bikbok to escape. He grabs the egg and runs off but Allan chases after him. Meanwhile, the tamawos capture Isay and the baby. Bikbok tries to return the egg, but Allan finds him and attempts to grab the egg. After a struggle, Allan throws the egg and breaks it as the tamawos watch.

After Allan runs off, the tamawos arrive and see their baby had died which enrages them. Meanwhile, at the cave, Isay finds her baby as the tamawos arrive. Allan arrives at the cave and fights the tamawos. They try to escape but the tamawos corner them and kill Allan as he begs for mercy in revenge for the egg.

With the tamawos about to take Isay, Bikbok runs to them and begs for them to take him instead. The tamawos accept his request. Bikbok bids farewell to his mother, and Isay cries in anguish before Epang arrives and watch him get taken away by the tamawos.

"Parola"

Best friends Lucy and Shane have their camping in a remote province for their report along with the other students. At night, Shane is at the gate of the lighthouse with Lucy's ex-boyfriend Bryan and began talking to him about Lucy's promise to him. She wants to go inside the lighthouse but Bryan refuses her to get in, claiming it is restricted. Lucy arrives and Shane convinces her to go to the lighthouse. While Bryan watches at the lighthouse, A guard, Andoy arrives. When the girls reach the top of the lighthouse, Andoy warns them to go down but Lucy and Shane ignore him. The lighthouse turns on. Andoy runs inside and tries to get them as the girls each see two ghosts. Horrified, they attempt to leave as Andoy arrives, startling them and causing them to nearly fall from the lighthouse before he catches them. When he attempts to pull them up, the two ghosts walk towards them, causing the girls and Andoy to fall down.

Lucy and Shane are in critical condition, but they both survive. Shane gets out of her room to see Lucy. Shane arrives at Lucy's room before Lucy's mother Angelie asks her mother Beth to leave. Before the girls leave, the ghosts from the lighthouse began to follow them. Lucy asks her mother why she is mad towards Beth until she tells her that she learned that Beth, a trusted friend, had an affair with her husband Norman and tells her to stay away from Shane. Afterwards, the ghosts torment Lucy and Shane to break their friendship.

At school, the girls began to quarrel each other over their families. After the ghosts torment the girls, their tensions grow further when Shane had her hand burned with a gas burner during chemistry class and Lucy mysteriously curses a girl who had been bullying her. Meanwhile, the parents' problem grow further: Shane catches her mother talking to Norman where his wife scolds and forces him to leave which devastates her and Lucy. Shane tries to call Lucy and talk to her on the incident at the lighthouse earlier but Lucy refuses. Suddenly, the ghosts appear and continue tormenting them. The next day, Lucy catches Shane embraced by Bryan which causes to break their friendship. Meanwhile, Norman appears and tries to take Beth with him but she tells him to leave. Outraged, he tries to grab her but Shane injures Norman by the ghost's powers.

During class discussion, Bryan tells the story about the lighthouse in the Spanish era which was built at the site where the two rival witches Rowana and Cornelia died in 1879. Rowana attempted to apprehend Cornelia but her family died and she realized that Cornelia killed them. Rowana decided to avenge her family by killing Cornelia's family. The witches encountered each other and fought each other with their spells. During their fight, Cornelia summoned a lightning storm, killing Rowana and herself. After the lighthouse was built, people were barred from entering the lighthouse because every year during their death anniversary, their ghosts would awaken and claim the lives of two people who entered the lighthouse to relive their rivalry. Shane overhears this and begins to leave. Meanwhile, at the hospital, Norman has a medical condition until Lucy realizes this and leaves the hospital as well. She arrives at Shane's house and attacks Beth. Shane arrives at the house and finds her mother near death. She finds Lucy and begins to fight. When Shane is about to kill Lucy, Angelie arrives and knocks Shane unconscious. She tries to help her daughter but she disappears along with Shane. The girls are at the lighthouse and the witches' souls possess them. The girls face each other and continue their fight. After they struggle, the girls' consciousness recover from their trance. They began to apologize to each other and promised that they will never be apart, thus reliving their friendship. But when Rowana and Cornelia's souls are still fighting, Lucy and Shane are struck by lightning and die in the lighthouse.

After 6 months, Norman and Angelie reconcile. Afterwards, Norman returns to Beth who has recently given birth to twins. Angelie arrives to take one of the twins as part of their settlement. The camera zooms into the ultrasound while Lucy and Shane are heard declaring their everlasting friendship, implying the twins to be the reincarnations of Lucy and Shane.

"Rain Rain Go Away"

During the wrath of Typhoon Ondoy, Cynthia and her family are forced to leave when their house and their factory flooded. With Cynthia and her husband Mar's anniversary plans ruined, she goes into labor and Mar takes her to the hospital. A news report features Marikina where child laborers died at the factory.

A year later, Cynthia and Mar move into a condominium and are expecting another baby after their child died from miscarriage a year ago. After working at their new plastic factory, Mar's brother Nante brought Cynthia back to the condominium to cook dinner. It rains before they leave and Cynthia, due to the typhoon, has developed hydrophobia. At the parking lot, Cynthia leaves Nante and returns to the condominium. While Nante is at the parking lot, water pours out of his car. He attempts to escape but the water fills up his car and drowns him. The police question the family about Nante's death. As Cynthia is sleeping, she sees Nante's body floating in the coffin before she wakes up.

The next day, Cynthia meets a wealthy couple planning to buy an old factory and tours them around the place. While there, the man finds the warehouse locked. Later, after Cynthia collects her allowance, she encounters an old woman who returns a donation and warns her. Cynthia is horrified and collapses. After recovering at the hospital, she notices children drawing an eye while singing and returns to the condominium. Cynthia has another nightmare involving Mar. She wakes up and Mar is nearly drowned while sleeping. After Mar arrives, Cynthia tells him about her nightmare and the tragedy from the typhoon earlier which Mar disbelieves. That night, Cynthia, Mar, his mother Maritess, and their maid Dina arrive at the factory with a priest to bless it. After the priest leaves, the old woman, whom Cynthia encountered earlier, watches her.

Cynthia notices the old lady talking to Dina. Before leaving, Cynthia questions Dina about what the old lady said. Dina replied that the lady said that she remembered what happened to her father earlier, whom she didn't save from the house fire, revealing that the dead will never rest if nobody saves them. Meanwhile, Mar, who is returning to the condominium, drowns in an elevator. Cynthia escapes from her flooded bathroom and encounters a group of ghosts. Horrified, she escapes to an elevator where she finds Mar's corpse. As Cynthia mourns his death, she gives birth to a healthy baby.

At the hospital, both Cynthia and Maritess became guilty about the child laborers who died during the typhoon. It was revealed that Cynthia & her family were responsible for that tragedy, having locked and abandoned them in the factory warehouse after their shift. Before the arrival of the typhoon, they begged the family for help until they were drowned in the flood. Their spirits began to haunt them by killing each of the family members through water. As Maritess began to leave the hospital, she notices children standing in the middle of the road before being killed by a truck of mineral water. After selling their new factory, Cynthia gives the donation back to the old woman but the lady refuses because her grandchildren have been working to help her grandmother. The lady's grandchildren were among the laborers who died from the typhoon. Cynthia begs the lady to accept it so that she could leave at peace with her child, which the old lady accepts.

Before leaving, Cynthia returns to the factory and enters the warehouse to pay respects to the deceased workers but suddenly she hears the children singing and then it rains. An initially scared Cynthia silently accepts her fate as the water floods around her in the locked warehouse while the camera shows the ghosts.

Critical response

The film has been graded with an "A" by the Cinema Evaluation Board of the Philippines.

In a review for ClickTheCity.com, Philbert Ortiz Dy described the film as a worthy anthology rating it with 4 out of a possible 5 stars. The film serves as a nice showcase of local talent and the 'Parola' episode itself is "worth the price of admission." Its weaknesses include the overall length and unevenness in regards to the two other episodes paling in comparison with Parola's quality and impact.^[1]

However, PEP.ph's Abby Mendoza was more appreciative of the film pointing out how unique the storytelling elements, themes and performances of each episode made Shake, Rattle & Roll 13 a film that does "more than creep one out."^[2]