Vivian Vera is a multi-awarded journalist with a dark past. She sensationalized some of her breaking news for her ambition. Her distortion of the truth ruined lives, and these lives have begun to haunt Vivian – they want her to join them... or else they will kill everyone around her who helped her in the lie.
Acting
Jodi Sta. Maria's unraveling — prestige TV energy in horror packaging
Direction
Cabrido's patient frame composition builds dread through negative space
Cinematography
Manila's shadows become characters; newsroom fluorescence as hellscape
Director
Derick Cabrido
Jodi Sta. Maria
Vivian Vera
Juan Karlos Labajo
Jasper Torres
Kaori Oinuma
Louis Amador
Lianne Valentin
Amanda
Gloria Diaz
Monica Vera
Joem Bascon
Benjie
Mylene Dizon
Sylvia
Sarah Edwards
Elaine Arnaiz
Gian Magdangal
Gerald
Miggs Cuaderno
Spike
Carlos San Juan
Devlin
Geraldine Villamil
Teresa
Lui Manansala
Chloe
Frances Ignacio
Nansy
Francis Mata
Ernesto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Derick Cabrido emerged from Filipino folklore horror (Clarita, 2019) and applies that same spiritual unease to contemporary sins, reflecting the Philippines' complex relationship with Catholic guilt and media sensationalism.
The newsroom sequence where monitors flicker to show victims' faces reportedly required practical projection tricks rather than VFX, with actors reacting to real images of actual Filipino wrongful conviction cases that inspired the script.
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