Dueñas: The municipality has been associated with Teniente Gimo, a local politician who was said to be an aswang and became the basis of a subplot of the 1990 horror film Shake, Rattle & Roll II. However, reevaluations have cast doubt over the narrative of the legend, while residents protest that Teniente Gimo was either a nationalist hero whose reputation was maligned by colonial authorities, a landowner who was falsely accused of being an aswang as part of a tenancy dispute, or simply a community leader who was maligned out of envy.
