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  • A woman makes a deal with the devil in order to bring back to life her dead child, but since the girl is a spawn of the devil, she turns into a tree monster once she grows up and superheroine Darna must stop the menace.

    Fifth Darna movie. Darna only has a small role but she shows up once in a while to fight the tree demon. Its low budget Wonder Woman vs Tabonga from From Hell It Came. Fun stuff.

    Cant say much about it since there were no subtitles but Cirio is good enough to have my attention through most of it.
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    That's what this film's title should have been. You see, I can understand taking a superhero film in a bold, artistic direction but for that, the superhero in my opinion must have at least 20 MINUTES OF SCREEN TIME IN HER OWN MOVIE! The legendary Filipino heroine created by Mars Ravelo has only about SEVEN!! Not only that, her first appearance comes one hour and two minutes into an HOUR AND TWENTY-EIGHT MINUTE film!

    Most of the plot focuses on a troubled woman apparently struggling with romance, sickness and religion in her life, only to be cursed and transformed into the title villain. A walking tree. No features, just..a..tree.. I can understand the low budget, but if it also comes at the cost of the heroine making a cameo in a tragic drama with her own (misleading) title on it, then you've made a major mistake. One thing they could've done is at least had the younger Narda alter-ego character figure larger in the plot, reacting to the events, instead of being a cameo character as well. There were a couple of standard low budget fight scenes, and some nice use of the stereotypical "torch wielding mob", but they belonged in a different film.

    In short, if you give a super heroine movie a deceptive action movie- like title and spend so much time getting to her that the viewer believes they were given a mislabeled romantic drama, despite having the heroine in the opening credits. You've got a disaster.

    Avoid.