History YMMV / Himala

** The violent stampede that ensued after the shot was fired to Elsa and the old and infirm who came to be healed, including children were trampled upon the mass hysteria. You can't help but cringe at that one moment when a woman falls out of her wheelchair, people in crutches just falling, helpless because they cannot run and one scene of a man ([[spoiler:Who is actually Lolo Hugo]]) being visibly trampled and is later on coughing up blood.

** The violent stampede that ensued after the shot was fired to Elsa and the old and infirm who came to be healed, including children were trampled upon the mass hysteria. You can't help but cringe at that one moment when a woman falls out of her wheelchair, people in crutches just falling, helpless because they cannot run and one scene of a man being visibly trampled and is later on coughing up blood.

* HilariousInHindsight: Three decades later and a film with [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 another Elsa]] bearing supernatural powers was released.

* HilariousInHindsight: Three decades later and a [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 another Elsa]] bearing supernatural powers was released.

* ItWasHisSled: Unless you're not Filipino, good luck finding some who ''doesn't'' know how things turn out in this film. Whether they're the old folks who were there as the movie was released or the young ones who are hip enough to know the plot, even if they've just seen a glimpse of it.
* HilariousInHindsight: Three decades later and a film about [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 another Elsa]] bearing supernatural powers was released.

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:The rape of Elsa and Chayong and Orly just stood there, filming it all. [[FromBadToWorse And then it leads to Chayong's suicide later on]]]].

* AlasPoorScrappy: There are quite an amount of assholes in the film that the movie ''begs'' of you to hate, but once you see them in the middle of the ensuing chaos and stampede [[spoiler: as Elsa was shot]], and greatly distraught at what happened afterwards, it's the only redeeming moment from them as it showed the townspeople's humanity.
** The beggar had it earlier when [[spoiler: she bawls in front of Elsa's house, begging for her to revive her child]]. Her "go to hell" rant is justified right then as it's implied that she once lost everything and the child was the only family she had left.

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: The rape of Elsa and Chayong and Orly just stood there, filming it all. [[FromBadToWorse And then it leads to Chayong's suicide later on]]]].

** [[spoiler: The fact that someone shot Elsa mid-speech, causing mass hysteria and the old, disabled, and children were trampled in the stampede. Some being critically injured or knocked unconscious (or possibly dying)]].
* NightmareFuel: The violent stampede that ensued after the shot was fired to Elsa and the old and infirm who came to be healed, including children were trampled upon the mass hysteria. You can't help but cringe at that one moment when a woman falls out of her wheelchair, people in crutches just falling, helpless because they cannot run and one scene of a man being visibly trampled and is later on coughing up blood.

* TearJerker: Elsa's death and the sorrow of the people around who have witnessed it.

** [[spoiler: Shots of the elderly, disabled, and children in the middle of the stampede. Particularly, a child crying beside his unconscious mother]].

* InternetBackdraft: [[spoiler: Don't bring up the subject 'who killed Elsa']].

* FridgeBrilliance: If one was to strip down the [[WildMassGuessing vague urge of someone shooting Elsa]] [[spoiler: it could be out of rage and disbelief because it seemed to implicate to them that every miracle they witnessed was all a hoax. She did after all say, "there are no miracles!" and that could have pissed off some of the devotees.]] But remember, even this is a YMMV itself so [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement say no more]].
* InternetBackdraft: [[spoiler: Don't bring up the subject 'who killed Elsa'. Let it be]].

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: The rape of Elsa and Chayong and Orly just stood there, filming it all [[FromBadToWorse And then it leads to Chayong's suicide later on]]]].

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: The rape of Elsa and Chayong and Orly just stood there, filming it all]].
** [[spoiler: [[FromBadToWorse And then it leads to Chayong's suicide later on]]]].

* SoCoolItsAwesome: Not only is it known as one of the Philippines' greatest films, it has also become known as one of the greatest films in ''Asia''.

* FridgeBrilliance: If one was to strip up the [[WildMassGuessing vague urge of someone shooting Elsa]] [[spoiler: it could be out of rage and disbelief because it seemed to implicate to them that every miracle they witnessed was all a hoax. She did after all say, "there are no miracles!" and that could have pissed off some of the devotees.]] But remember, even this is a YMMV itself so [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement say no more]].
* InternetBackdraft: [[spoiler: Don't bring up the subject 'who killed Elsa'. Let it be unrevealed]].

* TheWoobie: Elsa. Her status as a famous faith healer has made her life much more complex than it already is. Not even mentioning the coming atrocities, even.

** [[spoiler: And then it leads to Chayong's suicide later on]].

* ItWasHisSled: Unless you're not Filipino, good luck finding some who ''doesn't'' know how things turn out in this film. Whether they're the old folks who where there as the movie was released or the young ones who are hip enough to know the plot, even if they've just seen a glimpse of it.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Whether it's Elsa's famous lines about no miracles or Nora Aunor herself.