WISCONSIN — It’s spooky season in Wisconsin. To celebrate this time of year, the Oriental Theatre will host a screening of a 1994 Milwaukee-made cult classic.
‘Aswang’ was written and directed by two Wisconsinites, Wrye Martin and Barry Poltermann. Described as a tongue-in-cheek flick, it’s about a family of Filipino vampires that feast on the unborn.
‘Aswang’ premiered at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival thirty years ago. According to the Oriental Theatre, when the movie was released, it was mostly ignored by mainstream critics, but by the early 2000s it had a cult following…