And, depending on your sentiments, Raped by an Angel (1991) – in which a femme-molesting yuppie lawyer is provoked into attacking a scantily-dressed HIV-positive young woman by his battered and bruised ex-girlfriend – is either a really, really bad taste joke gone way too far or a successful attempt at indicating just how stupid, and tasteless, the entire rape-revenge genre is in the first place.The 1990s were a notorious period in the history Hong Kong cinema. Said exploits generally involve Ricky punching his fist through the faces and bodies of numerous wicked wardens – but in a suitably exaggerated, early-Peter-Jackson-type fashion. Likewise, Blue Jean Monster (1991) is an insanely entertaining slice of pulp about a zombified police officer protecting his innards from spilling out via a tight pair of the titular garments.įor more good-humoured gore, there is Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky(1991), adapted from a Japanese anime and manga, which follows the imprisonment of a super-heroic saint and his various shenanigans behind bars. The gorgeous Yip would return for a cameo in Erotic Ghost Story II (1991) but her finest Category III moment was perhaps Robotrix (1991) in which she is reborn as a half-human, all-ass-kicking, automation. Necrophilia and demonic possession also figure into the plot, but nothing too nasty. The often amusing Erotic Ghost Story (1990) is based around the alluring site of busty Amy Yip as an undead seductress all too willing to engage in some kit-shedding action. OH GOD, I’M NOT SURE I COULD STOMACH THAT…ĭon’t worry – not all of the limb-lopping is so aggressively dedicated to shattering taboos. Providing your sense of humour is in the gutter, of course… Believe it or not, Ebola Syndrome (1996) is one of the most mesmerising and chaotic horror-comedies ever made.
Best of all, though, might be Anthony Wong’s outstanding Ebola Syndrome(1996) – in which a Chinese restaurant worker catches the disease from some corpse-canoodling in South Africa and returns to Kowloon, fully infected and dedicated to coughing on everyone he passes.
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Lamb (1992) – a weird and wonderful slice and dice sickie about a taxi driver who has sex with dead bodies. Meanwhile, Simon Yam would reach some sort of dubious shock-cinema peak with Dr. Want more transgressive terror? Well, Red to Kill (1994) features a story about a rapist who infiltrates a home for children with learning difficulties and gets his just desserts at the hands of some painful vigilante justice. And, no, the camera does not pull away – instead, we see these atrocities in all of their prolonged gory-glory. Similarly, Run and Kill(1993) highlights the villainous Simon Yam (a Category III superstar) burning a little girl to death in front of her screaming father.
Their bodies are even served in pork buns. For instance, The Untold Story(1993) – which won a Hong Kong Academy Award for its star, the brilliant character actor Anthony Wong – serves up scenes of oddball black comedy alongside a lengthy rape with chopsticks and a roomful of child actors being graphically cut to pieces. Despite being a British colony at the time, Hong Kong Category III pictures have a sense of anarchy and unpredictability that could not be further removed from the sentiments of the West.
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