Thursday, August 7, 2014

Ebola Syndrome (1996, Herman Yau)

It doesn't get much better than "Ebola Syndrome" when it comes to the fucked up salaciousness of CATIII cinema. I'd say it's definitely on an even keel with "The Untold Story" in terms of the crazy storyline, depravity and Anthony Wong completely delivering!

Wong plays a degenerate who is caught fucking his boss's old lady. After a firm beatdown, he manages to avoid a forthcoming castration by turning the tables on them and killing everyone in the room except the young daughter who soon shows up. As he's dumping gasoline on the little girl, he's interrupted and flees. Cut to years later, he now resides as a wanted man in South Africa, performing low-paying grunt work for a Chinese restaurant. When their local meat vendor jacks up his prices, he and the boss head out to visit a tribe in order to purchase some cheaper pigs. While there, they come across some ritual being implemented on some severely ill looking tribe members. On their drive back, they experience car trouble and while Wong goes for a stroll, he spots a sickly woman, whom he decides to provide a quick diddling, only to have her clamp down on his cock and spit some kind of mucusy vomit in his face. When they arrive back at the restaurant he falls ill, as well, but springs to life, suddenly spry as a spring chicken and begins acting as the oblivious carrier for a widespread Ebola outbreak...

Plenty of nasty, mean-spirited gore and sleaze on tap with this one! As usual, Wong steals the show - once again showing his extraordinary prowess in playing loathsome dirtbags while actually managing to be pretty damn funny at the same time. His performance here is spectacularly lewd as he rapes, kills and grinds people into hamburger meat. At one point, he pays unknowing Hong Kong hookers wads of cash to pump his Ebola-infected seed into them. By the end, he's running through the streets, spitting blood in the faces of innocent people! What's not to love about "Ebola Syndrome"? It's simply QUALITY classic CATIII goodness with never a dull moment to be had. It's right up there with "The Untold Story" and "Red to Kill" as a highly entertaining, unapologetic HK delight!

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