Roderick topbills Munting Mahadera

MANILA, Philippines - For two Saturdays of the month, Roderick Paulate (photo) topbills the next horror-comedy feature of GMA 7’s Spooky Nights: Munting Mahadera. It airs before Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho.

Roderick has been admired for his performance in Munting Heredera, the network’s top-rating primetime drama. With Munting Heredera co-stars Luz Valdez and Barbara Miguel, he now guarantees laughter and fright as he portrays a closet gay named Rody in a spoof of the drama. 

Munting Mahadera is about Rody’s struggle to raise his children as a single father, maintain his macho image for his mother and keep his biggest secret — that he is a homosexual.

Recently parted ways with his wife, Rody goes back to live with his mother, Felicia (Luz), and takes along with him his twin daughters: The mischievous Bembem and the well-behaved Jenjen (both played by Barbara).

Rody’s presumptuous and nosy mom believes that there is a dark secret behind his breakup with his wife. Thus, Felicia tries everything to trick him into confessing but Rody never admits until a magical creature comes out of his closet and makes him come clean.

Meanwhile, Bembem finds herself a new playground in the old and big house of Felicia. She ignores her grandmother’s instruction never to enter a certain room and accidentally frees an evil hag (Odette Khan), who has long been staying there. The hag searches for someone to live with her in the world of shadows and soon aims for Jenjen to be the one.

Also in the cast are Soxy Topacio and Ervic Vijandre.