I can't say enough good things about this film without sounding like I wrote and produced it myself. Out of a sea of retarded, predictable Pinoy movies, out came this gem in a sea of turd cakes. If you've been exposed to as much local films as I have, you know what I mean when I say the pickings are really slim. Producers don't like veering from formula scripts, that's why it was a really pleasant surprise when Regal Films (of all film outfits!) took a chance on this.
I loved the way the "film within a film" was treated and how everything about it was so well put together. Irma Adlawan and Ina Raymundo were stellar in their roles of the real life mother and daughter who were both molested by the grandfather. And the guy who played the grandfather in the "real-life" parts of the film was so menacing, he really made my stomach turn. The contrast between the reality and the sexploitation flick makes it tragic and funny at the same time because the exaggerations are so typical of actual pinoy sex flicks. All throughout the film, It feels like a tug of war between the heart wrenching tragedy of the real life situation and the the hilarity of the sex flick.
The sad thing about this film is that the title might have gotten in the way of having it reach a wider audience as mostly, people here thought it was the cheap sex flick it had satirized in the actual film. "Tuhog" invokes nasty images of incest and animalistic f****ng. It actually turned off the intelligent people who should have seen the film and probably disappointed the guys who expected to jerk off of it in cinemas.
I gave this a 10 and hope more people get to see this.
