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NOTE: The aswang is a vampire from Filipino myth. It is a living person, usually a woman, who can take the form of a large bird and who waits on the roof of a victim's house until s/he falls asleep. Then, the aswang drops down its long tongue, pricks a hole in the victim's neck, and feeds on its blood. Once filled with blood, the aswang returns home to feed her own children. In this movie, the aswang is particularly fond of feeding on the unborn.

Kat (Tina Ona Paukstelis) is unwed and pregnant but refuses to get an abortion. Instead, she opts for adoption and contracts with Peter (Norman Moses) and Janine Null to give them her baby after it is born, as Janine is unable to bear children and Peter needs an heir so that he can inherit the family estate, a large tract of apple orchards in Wisconsin.

7 Months later: Very pregnant and posing as Peter's wife Janine, Kat accompaniesPeter to visit his family at the estate. Having lived in the Philippines,the family is rather strange. There is Peter's mother Olive (Flora Coker), who is ailingand is confined to a wheelchair. Peter's sister Claire (Jamie Jacobs Anderson), whom Peterdescribes as "touched", lives as a recluse in a rundown cottage, and Peterwarns Kat to steer clear of her. And there is Cupid (Mildred Nierras), their Filipino maidwho seems to be the one who holds everyone and everything together. All inall, though, Olive and Cupid seem genuinely glad to have "Janine" there,and both are very anxious for the baby to arrive.

At dinner that evening, Kat drinks too much of Cupid's "homemadeapple cider" and gets drunk. That night she has strange dreams about Peterfeeding on some white liquid and then putting his head between her legs asthough trying to listen to the baby. The next morning, while out walkingon the Hull property, Peter and Kat happen upon a trespasser, whointroduces himself as Dr Roger Harper (John Kishline) and who shows them a strange"cocoon" he has found. Harper has already found scores of them and can'texplain what kind of animal made them, only that the bodies inside havebeen reduced to bones and it seems as though they've had their livessucked out of them.

Peter is unhappy about Harper poking around on their land, but Katinvites him to dinner anyway. After dinner, Peter shows him some artworkfrom the Philippines, including a drawing of an aswang, a dark figuresitting on a rooftop and sticking its long skinny tongue down into thehouse. Upon returning home, Harper looks up a picture of an aswang,under which the caption reads "as*wong: a Filipino vampire who feeds on theunborn. The fetus will likely die, although some survive to become Aswangthemselves." Harper immediately fears for Kat/Janine's baby, but hedoesn't have time to warn her. He is himself attacked by an aswang.

Meanwhile, Kat and Peter have gone to bed, and Cupid is helping Oliveinto her nightclothes. While Kat sleeps, an aswang slides its long tongueinto her bedroom and snakes around under the bedsheets until it finds theway between her legs. Kat wakes up, dislodges the tongue, and manages totrap it in the door. Peter rushes outside to find Olive hanging from thebedroom window by her aswang tongue. In order to release her, Peter has tocut off her tongue.

Sensing that she's in danger, Kat runs...straight to Claire's cottagewhere she finds Harper enwrapped in a cocoon. Still alive, he tries towarn her. Kat tries ripping him free from the cocoon but, before she issuccessful, she hears a noise. It is the real Janine, and she's armed witha chainsaw. Janine attacks Kat, but Kat manages to kill her with a blow tothe head from a garden hoe.

Enter Peter, who injects Kat with a tranquilizer. Kat tries to run,but Peter retrieves the chainsaw and goes after her while screaming, "Wehave a contract...This is America...We have laws!" Kat gets away butstumbles onto the grave of Janine Hull. It's now apparent that "the realJanine" is actually Peter's sister Claire and that both she andOlive are aswangs.

Peter carries the bodies of Olive and Claire into the big house.While walking along the highway, Kat is "rescued" by the local sheriff whotakes her straight back to the Nulls, oblivious to Kat's contention thatthey are trying to kill her. After the sheriff leaves, Peter takes Kat toClaire's cottage and chains her to a window. But the sheriff, doing hisduty, calls for some information about Janine Hull and comes up empty, sohe returns to the Hull house, where he is attacked and killed by a chicken(Peter).

Peter, Olive, and Cupid go to the cottage. Olive is dying and mustfeed. While they prepare Kat, however, Olive dies, so Peter decides tofeed on Kat's baby himself. At that moment, however, Harper wakes up andPeter has to kill him first, giving Kat a chance to chop off her own handwith an ax and run away...straight back to the Hull house, Peter inpursuit, garden hoe in hand.

Meanwhile, Cupid has gotten religious. She falls down on her kneesand starts to pray. When Peter orders her to kill Kat, she raises the axto obey. Just at that moment, a tiny aswang tongue emerges from betweenKat's legs, and Cupid lets the ax fall.

Five years laterCupid and the 5-year old aswang girl are saying their prayerstogether, blessing Grandma Olive, Aunt Claire, Daddy (Peter), and a numberof Janine-mommies. [Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl.]