Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Coco Martin | ... | Peping | |
Maria Isabel Lopez | ... | Madonna | |
Julio Diaz | ... | Kap (Vic) | |
John Regala | ... | Sarge | |
Jhong Hilario | ... | Abyong | |
Lauren Novero | ... | Boy Chico | |
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Benjie Filomeno | ... | Rommel |
Mercedes Cabral | ... | Cecille | |
Allan Paule | ... | Leo (as Alan Paule) | |
Ping Medina | ... | Bong | |
Susan Africa | ... | Socorro | |
Lou Veloso | ... | Judge | |
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Sofia Lee | ... | Marie |
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Mely Soriano | ... | Lola Fe |
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Ruby Saavedra | ... | Neneng |
A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this job involves killing a woman.
A police academy student trying to make enough money to marry his girlfriend takes a lucrative job.It turns out that he actually joined a gang of criminals.During one night the gang abducts,rapes and kills a woman,cuts her body into pieces and throws dismembered remains in various places out of the car."Kinatay" aka "Butchered" is an ugly and disturbing horror drama with truly repulsive characters.This is an unflinching representation of the rape,murder and dismemberment of a prostitute in the Philippines that made Roger Ebert angry.Famous critic hated "Kinatay" with passion.Fortunately I found this film strangely hypnotic and very disturbing.The violence is not terribly graphic,but there is a suffocating aura of utter depravity and evil.9 out of 10.