The Complicated Raping Case (1993, Dai Yue Lok)

This may rank among one of the dullest CATIII movies I have ever had the displeasure of watching. Now, to be honest, I got pretty liberal with the fast-forward button around the halfway mark so I'll have to just base my opinions on only what I managed to endure from this mind numbing waste of time...

A billionaire and his mistress are attacked and go missing after a mysterious assailant barges in on their video-taped sex session. After that, the man's trophy wife starts talking to the cops about where he could be, all while a steamy romance takes shape between her and one of the detectives.

Maybe I got a cut version, but I didn't see any rape in this movie, ironically titled "The Complicated Raping Case". There is barely any IMPLIED rape. What you get is a bunch of passionate, soft-core sex scenes with slow saxophone jazz accompaniment. This movie is more of a 'seductive mystery-thriller' than anything downright sleazy which would be all fine and dandy (although I prefer my CATIII rape flicks pack in a fair amount of sleaze), except that this thing is just so fucking boring and uneventful that I couldn't even get through it. Even the copious amount of nudity couldn't save it, as far as I was concerned. Complicated AND dull! Skip it.

Doll Boy (2010, Billy 'Bloody Bill' Pon)

"Doll Boy" is a very straight-forward 30-minute slasher flick - essentially, just giving you the basic meat-and-potatoes of this type of comparatively 'ordinary' genre film. In that regard, I'd say it works, although it's far from great...

A fat man dressed as a clown drops a van-load of kidnapped people off at an abandoned warehouse where they are chased down and systematically killed by another fatso in a big, evil doll mask.

Very little is given, in terms of set-up, and absolutely no back-story or explanation is provided for the sledgehammer toting, doll-faced killer. It's just your general slasher fundamentals (minus the nudity, unfortunately) with some decent atmosphere and a few blunt indications of baby killing, which was cool. Overall, it's nothing special, but an alright way to waste a half-hour.

Also, there's a few Grindhouse-style trailers before the movie - one of which is titled "Mister Fister" - about a killer who fists people to death and, sure 'nuff, it's slated for a release! Hell, during "Doll Boy" all I could think about was how awesome "Mister Fister" looked. Ya can count me in on that one! Mister Fister rules!

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!

Terrorists, Killers and Middle East Wackos (2005, Ryen McPherson)

"Terrorists, Killers and Middle East Wackos" is your typical 'shock-doc' with all the typical shit you've seen a million fucking times. It was done by the guy who did the controversial "Bumfights" videos back when, but unlike those "movies", there is no original footage to be found in this one. He just jacked a bunch of 'graphic' videos off the internet and assembled it into a 54-minute 'shockumentary'.

As the title suggests, its got plenty of terrorist and Middle East execution footage, air show disasters, bull gorings, kangaroos being clubbed to death, the Budd Dwyer suicide (a redundant staple of ANY 'true death' mix tape) and some other random shit, involving extreme elephantaisis of the nutsack and bug eating. And he included some incredibly irritating emo band over it all...

Like I've said in other reviews for this type of shit - I just don't really care at this point. They rarely show me anything I haven't seen around the web a thousand times, which just goes to show that there's nothing to making one of these nowadays. Just lift it off of Bestgore or LiveLeak and string it together randomly. Something like this is fine to just have on in the background if you're doing somethinge else and don't feel like focusing on an actual movie.

The Child Molester (1964, Herbert J. Leder)

Pretty fucked up old scare-film put out by the Highway Safety Foundation to get young children aware of the dangers of pedos. We get a dramatized example of two girls - ages 8 and 9 - who are lured off the playground by an arcane stranger, offering handfuls of irresistible jelly beans. He drives the terrified girls out into the woods where one runs off and a chase ensues...

This bit of intense horror is intercut with an informational voiceover teaching boys and girls how to avoid getting snatched up, raped and murdered by unassuming child predators, using a variety of exemplar situations - one involving a small boy getting felt up in a movie theater. Between these lessons, we cut back to the girls running for their lives as well as their helpless parents talking with the cops. The end shows actual police crime scene film of two murdered girls who had been dumped in muddy pond by a molester.

"The Child Molester" is pretty heavy shit for it's time and isn't nearly as ass-backwards in it's cautionary logic as many other films of it's kind about homosexuals, marijuana, etc. I could really see this one freaking out some 60s adolescents.

Redlands (2014, John Brian King)

I actually really dug "Redlands". It's a real 'slow burn' type of slice-of-life narrative with a sufficient blend of pitch black comedy.

A young, hot secretary is trying to make a little extra cash on the side for her obnoxious douchebag, hipster musician boyfriend by posing nude for an amateur photographer. His sets and equipment consist primarily of a lawn chair, a cot in his basement and a digital camera, which he attempts to upgrade after their first session. As their relationship becomes more "intimate", things take a rather dark turn for the ill-starred model...

While the film centers around this basic concept - we get a pretty comprehensive glimpse into each of their lives through very slow, progressive scenes detailing each person's rather mundane and hapless situation through very long, uninterrupted shots. The model's unwavering daddy issues, the boyfriend's unfaithfulness and the photographer's shattered marriage. All of the performances are incredibly strong and affective and the incorporation of dark humor was not overdone at all and adds quite a unique dynamic to the film that helped along the hypnotically slow character development at times. Also, the abundance of nudity doled out by the lead actress was absolutely wonderful. Made my heart happy.

If you're not into moody, 'slow burn' types of films, then "Redlands" isn't for you. However, if you share my tastes for that type of cinema, then it comes highly recommended.
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