addendum on plot swiping

Forgot to put it in my previous entry.

Recall an early 90s Pinoy film titled Machete, an early Cesar Montano vehicle about a sculptress(Rita Avila) carving a statue of a native warrior out of a huge block of wood. The statue then awakens into human form on certain nights,with Buboy looking like a Native American brave armed with a tomahawk. Of course,this provokes jealousy among his creator and her best friend. There was a famous scene where Rita actually performs sex with Machete in his original form,and Vivian on waking up and discovering Machete has reverted back to wood,screams in terror,after having slept with him the night before.

Sounds like a revisiting of the legend of Pygmalion and Galatea.

There was Machete 2 soon after,with Gardo Verzosa and Rosanna Roces replacing Buboy and Rita.