Award-winning broadcast journalist Jessica Soho steps into the shadows of cinema as the country’s most trusted broadcast journalist, is venturing into a realm far darker than the nightly news.

Her long-running program on GMA, Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (KMJS), is crossing over to the big screen, summoning some of its most bone-chilling segments into KMJS Gabi ng Lagim: The Movie.

Soho herself remains the host, guiding audiences through stories that blur the line between fact and nightmare.

In a whisper that feels almost prophetic, Soho told DAILY TRIBUNE the Gen Z mantra: “Manifest it and it will happen.” She didn’t expect this leap into cinema — but perhaps the shadows did.

From the creators of the Philippines’ longest-running, most-watched, and most-acclaimed television news magazine program — and the producers behind MMFF Best Pictures Firefly (2023) and Green Bones (2024) — comes a film that promises not just scares, but hauntings that linger.

A cast bound to the uncanny

Presented by Miss Jessica Soho, KMJS Gabi ng Lagim: The Movie assembles a star-studded cast: Jillian Ward, Sanya Lopez, Elijah Canlas, and Miguel Tanfelix. Together, they step into stories where the ordinary dissolves into the unexplainable.

Unlike horror spun purely from imagination, this film draws its dread from three meticulously researched accounts each inspired by real events, each carrying the weight of truth.

For more than a decade, Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho’s Gabi ng Lagim has been the country’s most anticipated Halloween special.

Ghost stories, urban legends, demonic possessions — these weren’t just tales, but testimonies of real people, backed by investigations. With over 700 million views since 2013, its reenactments have already etched themselves into the nation’s collective nightmares.

Now, the annual tradition mutates into something more sinister: three distinct stories, directed by Yam Laranas, Dodo Dayao and King Mark Baco, each weaving cinematic terror from Filipino folklore and lived encounters.

“Kung natuwa po kayo sa yearly na handog ng KMJS na Gabi ng Lagim — ito na po ’yung next level. Mapapanood na ang Gabi ng Lagim sa big screen!” Soho said.

What once flickered on television sets during Halloween nights now expands into the darkened halls of cinemas. KMJS Gabi ng Lagim: The Movie transforms real-life horrors into cinematic nightmares.

Produced by GMA Pictures and GMA Public Affairs, the film will be distributed by Columbia Pictures for Sony Pictures Releasing International.