If you type "Martial law films" in the Google search tab, you would only come up with 3 results, two which are relevant and the third being a film titled Martial Law which is about martial arts. The only film we had that tackled Martial Law was Dekada '70 starred in by Vilma Santos. In the US, the Denzel Washington-starrer The Siege dealt more on the terrorist attacks as a thriller.
Now, we have a film that kinds of get into the mindset of a former soldier during martial law, A fictional character played by octogenarian established actor Eddie Garcia, yes, but the brutality of what happened back then goes beyond what we can imagine.
In real life, Tony Labrusca as Carlo would have gotten sores on behind for sitting in the chair for days, as well as his friends Pat (Lianne Valentin) and (Henz Villaraiz). Come to think of it, that's the least of your cJace oncerns when a Martial Law fanatic with dementia who thinks anything he does for the love of the country is right, ends up torturing them because he thinks Valkyrie is not just a place where the youth chill. Wait, did I mention this all happened because Carlo's class was assigned by the professor to interview someone who has witnessed Martial Law?
Benedict Mique revealed that he actually believes that the movie is tame compared to what Garcia was suggesting as a torture method that was used that time such as putting a cage on one's stomach with a rat inside so that when the rodent realizes it has no other way to escape, it will bite and claw it's way right through the victim's stomach.
Prior to his Cinemalaya feature length film debut, Mique directed one teleserye and wrote a dozen or so teleplays for both the Kapuso and Kapamilya networks.
Produced by Lone Wolf Films and distributed by Solar Pictures, this horror-thriller sets to open on November 7 in cinemas nationwide.
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