History Film / TheHealing

* LosingYourHead: Ruben, courtesy of a possessed Greta armed with a machete.

* WomanOnFire: Alma pushes off her dorm mates from the balcony then douses herself with kerosene then lighting it up. Instead of running around though, her flaming body simply falls down as she burns to death.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Most of the onscreen deaths are like this. Greta stabs her husband with a knife to his torso before [[OffWithHisHead beheading]] him with a machete. ''In front of everyone!'' She then sets to kill her children but Seth and Cita chase her, hanging herself as they arrive. [[UpToEleven This was when the movie was progressing to each death getting more and more graphic as people continue to die.]]

* AdultFear:
** Cita fears for her daughter Cacai greatly after finally knowing that the curse has a pattern and everybody was to die eventually. Her fears eventually come true and swore to stand by close to her [[spoiler:which is unfortunately not enough to save her daughter.]]
** Seth cares greatly for Cookie even if she's not at all related to her by blood and tries her best to protect her from the curse because she felt that she's responsible for their deaths as she was the one who pleaded for Manang Elsa to heal them after she had repeatedly refused to do so. [[spoiler:She's luckier however.]]

* ImpromptuTracheotomy:
** Dodi, the gay hostage taker gets it from himself after killing others in possibly the same way.

* AdultFear: Cita fears for her daughter Cacai greatly after finally knowing that the curse has a pattern and everybody was to die eventually. Her fears eventually come true and swore to stand by close to her [[spoiler:which is unfortunately not enough to save her daughter.]]
** Seth cares greatly for Cookie even if she's not at all related to her by blood and tries her best to protect her from the curse because she felt that she's responsible for their deaths as she was the one who pleaded for Manang Elsa to heal them when she's been refusing. [[spoiler:She's luckier however.]]

After her father suffered from a severe stroke, Seth (Santos) decides to bring him to Manang Elsa, a faith healer [[HealingHands who apparently can cure illnesses.]] They return home and he regains his strength much to her surprise and the whole neighborhood's. This causes her to bring along her friends whom five of them wish to be healed. Her son's half-sister Cookie (Chiu) -- who is gravely ill -- crosses paths with them after pleading to Seth. Eventually, they all get better after seemingly worsening results. However, after a series of gruesome but similar events that involved those healed going berserk and [[MurderSuicide committing murders before they ultimately kill themselves,]] Seth begins to wonder if there was a price exchanged from these healings.

''The Healing'' is a 2012 Filipino [[{{Horror}} horror suspense]] film.

After her father suffered from a severe stroke, Seth decided to bring him to Manang Elsa, a faith healer [[HealingHands who apparently can cure illnesses.]] They return home and he regains his strength much to her surprise and the whole neighborhood's. This causes her to bring along her friends whom five of them wish to be healed, her son's half-sister -- who was also very sick -- who (her son) pleaded to have her healed also visit, crossing paths with them. Eventually, they all get better after seemingly worsening results. However, after a series of gruesome but similar events that involved those healed going berserk and [[MurderSuicide committing murders before they ultimately kill themselves,]] Seth begins to wonder if there was a price exchanged from these healings.

* AdultFear: Cita fears for her daughter Cacai greatly after finally knowing that the curse has a pattern and everybody was to die eventually. Her fears eventually come true and swore to stand by close to her [[spoiler: which is unfortunately not enough to save her daughter.]]
** Seth cares greatly for Cookie even if she's not at all related to her by blood and tries her best to protect her from the curse because she felt that she's responsible for their deaths as she was the one who pleaded for Manang Elsa to heal them when she's been refusing. [[spoiler: She's luckier however.]]
* BackFromTheDead: As Seth and her father leave, a commotion stirs when a man collapses. [[spoiler: As it turns out later pointed out by Melchor, he had a heart attack and was already dead. Elsa however "cures" (read: unknowingly revives) him. This somehow incites a {{curse}} to whomever went to Elsa for healing after that to die.]]

* {{Curse}}: [[spoiler: As mentioned above, Elsa had "cured" somebody who was supposed to be dead. The life that was used to revitalize him was the lives of the following murdered patients that Manang Elsa "cured" after him.]]

* DeathOfAChild: One of those who came to be healed was Cacai, Seth's friend Cita's young daughter who had become blind. [[spoiler: She ends up slaughtering the praying monks and finally jumping to her death, [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled to a flag pole.]]]]

* {{Gorn}}
* GoryDiscretionShot: The JustForFun/{{egregious}} {{aversion}} of this trope was what may have contributed to the film's success. Other than that, pretty much every death scene is meant to be presented as such.
* GuttedLikeAFish: A Buddhist monk suffers from this [[spoiler: after Cacai is possessed to kill the praying monks.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Cacai, much to her mother's horror.]]
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: Dodi, the gay hostage taker gets it from himself after killing others in possibly the same way.
** Ruben and Greta's children are implied to have lived though they're never seen again.
* JumpScare: An unlikely usage shown in the end. [[spoiler: With the curse over, Seth and Jed shake an unconscious Cookie, who wakes up surprisingly for one final scare.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Had Seth not decided to call to warn Cita who's already struggling with a rambunctious Cacai whose hand she was already holding before being completely distracted, [[spoiler: she could've had a chance to be spared since her mother had been keeping her close all this time.]]
* NoOntologicalInertia: Cookie, the last patient to be healed, was last seen suffering the same fate as her doppelganger (who takes over Jed's form later) attempts to kill Seth and most likely Cookie herself later on. [[spoiler: It ends when Melchor shoots Dario dead in his cell. Then she abruptly snaps back to consciousness, thus finishing the movie.]]
* RavensAndCrows: The movie uses its classic portrayal as the harbinger of a bad omen. [[spoiler: It symbolically falls out of the sky when the curse has ended.]]

* InfantImmortality: One of those who came to be healed was Cacai, Seth's friend Cita's young daughter who had become blind. [[spoiler: Mercilessly averted as she slaughters the praying monks and finally jumps to her death, [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled to a flag pole.]]]]

* ConspicuousCG: Some of the death scenes, like Ruben's beheading, Alma on fire, and the Buddhist monk's intestines after being gutted.

* NamesTheSame: A faith healer by the name "Elsa"? Hmm... did she not say [[Film/{{Himala}} there were "no miracles"]]?

* GoryDiscretionShot: The {{egregious}} {{aversion}} of this trope was what may have contributed to the film's success. Other than that, pretty much every death scene is meant to be presented as such.

After her father suffered from a severe stroke, Seth decided to bring him to Manang Elsa, a faith healer [[HealingHands who apparently can cure illnesses]]. They return home and he regains his strength much to her surprise and the whole neighborhood's. This causes her to bring along her friends whom five of them wish to be healed, her son's half-sister--who was also very sick--who (her son) pleaded to have her healed also visit, crossing paths with them. Eventually, they all get better after seemingly worsening results. However, after a series of gruesome but similar events that involved those healed going berserk and [[MurderSuicide committing murders before they ultimately kill themselves]], Seth begins to wonder if there was a price exchanged from these healings.

!!Provides examples of:

* AdultFear: Cita fears for her daughter Cacai greatly after finally knowing that the curse has a pattern and everybody was to die eventually. Her fears eventually come true and swore to stand by close to her [[spoiler: which is unfortunately not enough to save her daughter]].
** Seth cares greatly for Cookie even if she's not at all related to her by blood and tries her best to protect her from the curse because she felt that she's responsible for their deaths as she was the one who pleaded for Manang Elsa to heal them when she's been refusing. [[spoiler: She's luckier however]].
* BackFromTheDead: As Seth and her father leave, a commotion stirs when a man collapses. [[spoiler: As it turns out later pointed out by Melchor, he had a heart attack and was already dead. Elsa however "cures" (read: unknowingly revives) him. This somehow incites a {{curse}} to whomever went to Elsa for healing after that to die]].

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Most of the onscreen deaths are like this. Greta stabs her husband with a knife to his torso before [[OffWithHisHead beheading]] him with a machete. ''In front of everyone!'' She then sets to kill her children but Seth and Cita chase her, hanging herself as they arrive. [[UpToEleven This was when the movie was progressing to each death getting more and more graphic as people continue to die]].

* DisposableSexWorker: Workers plural. Ding, already possessed by his doppelganger, kills the tenants and some of his teammates during a raid at a motel. Most of the said tenants that were caught in the scene before they die are implied to be [[GenderInvertedTrope call boys]].

* GuttedLikeAFish: A Buddhist monk suffers from this [[spoiler: after Cacai is possessed to kill the praying monks]].
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Cacai, much to her mother's horror]].

* InfantImmortality: One of those who came to be healed was Cacai, Seth's friend Cita's young daughter who had become blind. [[spoiler: Mercilessly averted as she slaughters the praying monks and finally jumps to her death, [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled to a flag pole]]]].

* JumpScare: An unlikely usage shown in the end. [[spoiler: With the curse over, Seth and Jed shake an unconscious Cookie, who wakes up surprisingly for one final scare]].

* MoodWhiplash: Anything involving Odong, Seth's father, inevitably turns one serious moment to an absurd scene pertaining to blue humor much to his daughter's annoyance. He has so far provided the few dabs of funny when the movie is not being violent or scary. [[KarmicProtection It's a good thing that he didn't die]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Had Seth not decided to call to warn Cita who's already struggling with a rambunctious Cacai whose hand she was already holding before being completely distracted, [[spoiler: she could've had a chance to be spared since her mother had been keeping her close all this time]].

* RavensAndCrows: The movie uses its classic portrayal as the harbinger of a bad omen. [[spoiler: It symbolically falls out of the sky when the curse has ended]].

'''''The Healing''''' is a 2012 Filipino [[{{Horror}} horror suspense]] film.

* NamesTheSame: A faith healer by the name "Elsa"? Hmm... kinda reminds you of a certain someone from [[Film/{{Himala}} a rather famous movie]] from [[TheEighties the 80s]] doesn't it?

* DisposableSexWorker: Workers plural. Ding, already possessed by his doppelganger, kills most of the tenants and some of his teammates during a raid at a motel. Said tenants that were caught in the scene before they were killed are implied to be [[GenderInvertedTrope call boys]].

* OffWithHisHead: Ruben, courtesy of a possessed Greta armed with a machete.

After her father suffered from a severe stroke, Seth decided to bring him to Manang Elsa, a faith healer [[HealingHands who apparently can cure illnesses]]. They return home and he regains his strength much to her surprise and the whole neighborhood's. This causes her to bring along her friends whom five of them wish to be healed, her son's half-sister--who was also very sick--also visit when they crossing paths with them. Eventually, they all get better after seemingly worsening results. However, after a series of gruesome but similar events that involved those healed going berserk and [[MurderSuicide committing murders before they ultimately kill themselves]], Seth begins to wonder if there was a price exchanged from these healings.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Most of the onscreen deaths are like this. Greta stabs her husband with a knife to his torso before [[OffWithHisHead beheading]] him with a machete. ''In front of everyone!'' She then sets to kill her children but Seth and Cita chase her, hanging herself as they arrive.

* GoryDiscretionShot: The {{egregious}} {{aversion}} of this trope was what may have contributed to the film's success.

After her father suffered from a severe stroke, Seth decided to bring him to Manang Elsa, a faith healer [[HealingHands who apparently can cure illnesses]]. They return home and he regains his strength much to her surprise and the whole neighborhood's. This causes her to bring along her friends whom five of them wish to be healed, her son's half-sister--who was also very sick--also visit. Eventually, they all get better after seemingly worsening results. However, after a series of gruesome but similar events that involved those healed going berserk and [[MurderSuicide committing murders before they ultimately kill themselves]], Seth begins to wonder if there was a price exchanged from these healings.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Needless to say, beheading someone by machete (a really old and blunt looking one at that) would require more than one strike and would've been quite a mess, unlike one clean slice as if he had just been subjected to an invisible guillotine. Considering that Greta is possessed by a demonic doppelganger, it could've been intentional.