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Vilma Santos and Joel Torre in Lipa 'Arandia' Massacre: Lord, Deliver Us from Evil (1994)

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Lipa 'Arandia' Massacre: Lord, Deliver Us from Evil

In the film's climax, when Gener (Elmer Palicpic) assaults Helen from behind after she realizes that the children received lollipops from him, "The Murder" theme from Psycho (1960) plays. The same theme repeats itself in a dream sequence where Joel Torre's character Ronald Arandia fights Gener. Despite the scenarios, the score remained uncredited in the end credits.
The Lipa "Arandia" Massacre happened in April 9, 1994, the same year as this film. As Filipino exploitation film director Carlo J. Caparas, who helmed this movie, was known for his massacre based films, he quickly rushed the production making the film so poorly made. Many cast and crew members or even the audiences deemed that the film was produced in just a couple of seven days or less than a month.
During the church scene, when Helen tried to see what was the crowd was watching, it is revealed that they are witnessing the December 11, 1992 wedding of Vilma Santos and Ralph Recto. Actual recordings of the wedding, dubbed as the "wedding of the century" are intersped with reenactments done by Caparas for the movie.
All the Arandia house scenes were filmed at the actual residence where the real killings occurred.
Philippine Airlines (PAL), the Philippine flag carrier, as well as its hub, Manila-Ninoy Aquino International Airport, helped in the production wherein they provided their facilities for the shoot. PAL also provided one A300 to film the scene where Ronald boards as he leaves Saudi Arabia for the Philippines. The scene where he encounters a worrying passenger and later learns of his family's demise via a newspaper was shot in the same aircraft.

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Maggie de la Riva: The actress, who gained notoriety due to her 1967 kidnap-rape case makes an uncredited cameo as the obstetrician/gynecologist who helps Gener's wife Ana (played by her real-life niece Ana Rivera) give birth. She and Ana previously appeared in another Carlo J. Caparas movie released the same year, The Maggie dela Riva Story (God... Why Me?) (1994), which dramatized the real-life kidnap-rape case in 1967. Like this movie, Maggie made a cameo, albeit in the film's ending.

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