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1996 - 98m.
Hong Kong

Category III Hong Kong flick starts out with a tryst between lead character Anthony Wong and a mobsters wife being discovered which turns into brutal murder as Wong kills them all.

After that gripping start we flash forward to eight years later and Wong is working in his brother's restaurant and is constantly being "bullied" (a term that shows up so much to eventually be a bit silly). Seeing as our main character is an obnoxious pervert (who even masturbates into a chicken breast while listening to his brother make love) soon he finds himself infected with a strain of the ebola virus when during a trip to a Native tribe to buy pigs for the restaurant he rapes a dying Native girl and gets infected.

From here he goes quite nutty and between killing his suitors (and morbidly feeding them to restaurant patrons) he spreads the disease with things getting even worse when he returns back to Hong Kong.

All this really is is scenes of brutallity mixed with a mostly pointless plot as Wong gets a chance to act all wigged-out in this thinly scripted riff on 1995's Outbreak that doesn't work simply because there's nobody in the film to root for, the finale is a bit sloppy and there's just no suspense to the whole thing.

This has a reputation among genre fans - but to say it was a disappointing exercise in heavy violence and perversness would be an understatement.

Directed By: Herman Yau.
Written By: Ting Chau.

Starring: Anthony Wong, Vincent Wan, Mariane Chaan, Shing Fui On.