Scorpio Nights 1

This is the AOL's undisputed favorite Filipino crime/soft porn movie.

The story is set in a poor community where families lived in rooms in a dilapidated building. It is about a peeping Tom who kept watching his downstairs neighbor's routine. The man, who was a security guard on graveyard shift, would come home at night humming, have dinner, wash his hands, brush his teeth and have sex with his wife as she slept. One night, peeping Tom accidentally bumped the couple's door open. He decided to grab the opportunity. He pretended to be the husband, hummed, moved the dishes around, poured water as if he's washing up and had sex with the wife. He kept doing it thinking she didn't know until they became lovers. Their shenanigans fired up her stack, so to speak, and became more aggressive with her husband. This gave him the clue that something was going on. So one night, he came home early and caught them in the act. He shot them and as she lay there dying he had sex with her until she died then shot himself.

I was shocked! It was unspeakably sordid!

The setting was dismally miserable. The characters were individually remarkable. The fervor of the young lover was rabidly realistic. The wife's frustration and compassion for her husband were intensely tangible. The husband's grief when he was suspicious of his wife was deeply touching. His stoical coldness when he caught and killed them, the final sexual act with his wife followed by his suicide was poignantly terrifying.

Truly a work of art.

Unforgettable... even for oblivious me.