THE SEVENTIES # 981: CELIA RODRIGUEZ, CHANDA ROMERO, RONALDO VALDEZ, ORESTES OJEDA, REZ CORTEZ, ERNIE GARCIA AND TRIXIA GOMEZ (IN THE TITLE ROLE) IN "ELECTRIKA KASI, EH!" (1976)

"Electrika Kasi, Eh!" (1977)

Alleluia Pictures, Inc.

Release Date February 4, 1977

Story and Screenplay Nicdao Cabreira Richardson

Production Design and Art Direction Ruben Nicdao

Cinematography Ding Austria

Special Effects and Animation Vic Penetrante

Makeup and Prosthetics Cecile Baun

Costumes Cesar Gaupo

Editing Rogelio Salvador

Music Demet Velasquez

Producers Mon Carrion and Siony Timbol

Direction Danilo P. Cabreira

Cast Trixia Gomez (in the title role), Celia Rodriguez, Chanda Romero, Ronaldo Valdez, Orestes Ojeda, Rez Cortez, Nympha Bonifacio, Marlon Ramirez, Brenda del Rio, Vina Cansino, Cloyd Robinson and Ernie Garcia/ Also Starring Mona Lisa, Sandy Garcia, Maricru del Gallego, Elizabeth Bautista, Edgar Oira and Angie Ferro/ Co-starring Jimmy Santos, Tony Carrion, Mon Carrion and Ms. Dexter Doria/ In cameo roles- Etang Discher, Mary Walter, Lillian Laing and Leandro Gruet/ Introducing Don Gallardo, Garizaldy Zshornack

Trixia Gomez as Electrika 

(image from Elizabeth Trixia Gomez Asbury FB Account)

CECILLE BAUN: ACKNOWLEDGED MASTER OF PHILIPPINE PROSTHETICS AND SPECIAL MAKEUP

In more than four decades of working in the film industry, Cecille Baun is undoubtedly the Philippines’ own Queen of Philippine Prosthetics- the mastermind behind the bloodcurdling monsters, mangled faces, piles of fake corpses, evil charred babies, bullet-riddled bodies, and fountains of fake blood.

Since Andrew Meyer’s Night of the Cobra Woman in 1972, Cecille trained herself, largely through trial and error, and the results have been nothing short of amazing.

Cecille gave birth to ideas. The tianaks, manananggals, kapres, and every kind of conceivable (and inconceivable) being that the directors and productions designers thought of, Cecille molded, sculpted and shared with her own hands.

There is no How-to- Manual for Cecille’s chosen field. She trained herself, largely through experimentation and possessing a vivid imagination, and the results having been nothing short of astounding. It’s no hyperbole to state that, over the course of five decades as the leading prosthetic artist working on local and international productions, Cecille is the Queen of Philippine Prosthetics.

Cecille Baun's Prosthetic Exhibit 

at Trinoma Cinema

November 9 to 18, 2014

Coinciding with the QCinema Film Festival