Kinatay / The Execution of P, PH-FR 2009 colour 105    min.
dir:  Brillante Mendoza
pro: Didier Costet, Ferdinand Lapuz, Swift Productions, Centerstage Productions
sc: Armando Lao
ph: Odyssey Flores
mus: Teresa Barrozo
ed: Kats Serraon
cast: Coco Martin, Maria Isabel Lopez, John Regala, Julio Diaz, Jhong Hilario, Lauren Novero, Benjie Filomeno, Alan Paule, Mercedes Cabral
dis: The Match Factory

Peping, a criminology student, is recruited by his schoolmate, Abyong, to work as a part-time errand boy for a local syndicate that collects protection fees from various businesses in Manila. The easy money Peping earns is spent mostly on his girlfriend, Cecille, who’s also a student. Peping decides to marry her, but in order to do so he’ll need more money. Abyong contacts Peping to join a “special project” that pays more than normal. Already accustomed to side profits from a small-time drug ring, Peping naively accepts a well-paid job offer from a corrupt friend. Peping soon falls into an intense voyage into darkness as he experiences the kidnapping and torture of a beautiful prostitute. Horrified and helpless during the nightmarish all-night operation directed by a psychotic killer, Peping is forced to search within if he is a killer himself…