The Vizconde Massacre Story (God Helps Us!)
Philippines
1993
Color
English, Tagalog
The first Vizconde movie’s opening credits roll to an ominous tenor: first-person camera POV searches the house a la Poltergeist and Night of the Living Dead, with matching deep heartbeat SFX and horror-movie symphonic drones. All throughout the film, you will mostly hear alternating strains of Bernard Hermann’s disturbing score from _Psych_o and Ennio Morricone’s theme from Once Upon a Time in America. See, back in the early ‘90s, copyright was still a non-issue. And in true Caparas fashion, the scoring is, as they say, wall-to-wall. —spot.ph