Dodo Dayao (Writer)

Posthouse

An editor and his daughter work to restore a family heirloom — an old silent horror film — unaware that each frame inches them closer to a dark spirit.

Release Date2025-08-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Consultant

Vote Count5

Folklore

Bringing together some of the most talented Asian directors working within the genre sphere, this new anthology series creates an atmosphere unlike anything that’s come out of the region before.

Release Date2018-10-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count43

Ma

After his mother dies suddenly, Samuel goes into a mysterious cave that claims to grant wishes and asks for his mother’s life back.

Release Date2019-07-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

KMJS' Gabi Ng Lagim: The Movie

Three chilling tales based on real stories expose the haunting depths of faith, fear, and the unknown — from a seafarer trapped on a cursed voyage, to an island plagued by a flesh-eating legend, and a young woman's battle against a legion of demons that pushes the limits of faith and sanity.

Release Date2025-11-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Kampon

After 8 years of marriage, a childless couple named Clark and Eileen meet a little girl who one day, came knocking at their door claiming to be Clark's child. Despite the unexpected situation, the wife accepts the child and temporarily fosters her while figuring the next steps. Meanwhile, Clark investigates the child's history while Eileen begins to develop an odd and eerie relation with the child.

Release Date2023-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Zero

On his film Dodo wrote: “Whenever I’m asked what Zero is exactly, I tell them it’s a ghost story. Also, a love story. And how they really are the same thing.”

Release Date2011-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Cattleya Killer

NBI agent Anton Dela Rosa discovers that he possesses an innate ability to view crimes from the perspective of a killer accompanied by erratic sociopathic tendencies, just like his serial killer father known as the Cattleya Killer.

Release Date2023-06-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

The Tapes

The year is 1999. In a cold sleepy town in the Philippine mountains, Officer Sonny Cruz begins receiving mysterious voyeuristic videotapes of a missing woman who vanished three years prior. As he begins to investigate the tapes with his partner Officer Alice Lagaac, the two regular cops become entangled in a world of mystery, supernatural and the occult.”

Release Date2020-03-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Surrogate

After 8 years of marriage, a childless couple named Clark and Eileen meet a little girl who one day, came knocking at their door claiming to be Clark’s child.

Release Date2023-06-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Violator

Manila is besieged by the worst typhoon to hit the country. Talk of the world coming to an end hangs in the air. And five men find themselves stranded inside a police station with a prisoner who may o may not be the devil. It's going to be a long night.

Release Date2014-11-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count6

The Ride

Set in the roads of Manila, the rural, the sea, and the “underground”, the film tells the story of Leo, the son, forced to grant his dying mother’s request to accompany his estranged father, Barry, to come home.

Release Date2025-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Lukas the Strange

A small town in the Philippines is turned upside down by the arrival of a film crew that has everyone excited. Meanwhile, 13-year-old Lukas finds his own world overturned when he is told that his father is a tikbalang (half horse, half man). His father’s disappearance leaves Lukas to try to unravel the mystery of his own heritage and his own nature.

Release Date2013-01-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count6

Uninvited

Eva seeks revenge on billionaire Guilly for killing her daughter. Disguised, she attends his party with a vengeful plan.

Release Date2024-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Midnight in a Perfect World

In the near future, Manila is an almost-utopian city, but they still believe in ghost stories. Nobody survives the mysterious blackouts that happen in random parts of the city after midnight. Nobody believes the horrors in its darkness are even real. Four friends are about to find out that you don’t need to believe, for it to come for you.

Release Date2020-12-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Dear Wormwood

The quiet lives of four women of faith living up in the mountains are disrupted and threatened by the arrival of a time travelling ghost who is bringing the world toan end.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The End is Bigger Than Love

It's months after am unexplained apocalypse has wiped out most of the country's population, and Dom is eking out a living in a remote desert hideaway. He inexplicably finds Leslie, who was once the love of his life. They try to reunite, but the weight of a painful past, an uncertain present, and an absent future may prove too much for them.

Release Date2014-11-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

If You Leave

Two amateur ghost hunters are hired to surveil an alleged haunted house. Nothing much happens. But just because you can’t see the patterns of strangeness, it doesn’t mean they aren’t there.

Release Date2016-10-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Kapatiran

A story focusing on a elite law school fraternity, it follows a week in the lives of a neophyte, a master, and a lawyer alumnus, and crosses the lines of money, power and connections within Manila’s society.

Release Date2015-10-24