Di yu wu men (1980)

Director:

Hark Tsui

Writers:

Roy Szeto (writer)
Hark Tsui (screenplay)

Release Date:

2 April 1980 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller

Plot:

A secret agent investigates a village that is populated by crazed, inbred cannibals. |

Plot Keywords:

Cannibal | Secret Agent | Impalement | Raft | Knocked Out

Cast

Norman Chu	...	Agent 999 (as Norman Tsui Sui-Keung)
Eddy Ko	...	Captain (as Hung Gao)
Melvin Wong	...	Rolex (as Kam-seng Wong)
Kwok Choi Hon	...	Pickpocket
Mo-lin Cheung	...	Lin
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Feng Feng	...	Village Head
Tin Sang Lung	...	Lin's brother
Kei Mai	...	Rolex's friend
Yung-sheng Pan	...	Zebra
Gwa-pau Sai	...	Villager
Kam Siu	...	Daughter of Village Head
Tin Nam Tam	...	Villager
Siu-Ming To	...	Blind Man
Choh Lam Tsang	...	Boatman
Hung Tse	...	Scholar
David Wu	...	Bisected Victim

Also Known As:

Hell Has No Gates
Kung Fu Cannibals
No Door to Hell
We're Going to Eat You (Hong Kong: English title)

Runtime:

Finland:87 min (25 fps) | Hong Kong:90 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-18 | USA:Unrated | West Germany:18 (cut) | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Company:

Seasonal

Movie Connections:

References Suspiria (1977)

Soundtrack:

Witch

Mouth-Watering Kung-Fu/Gore Smorgasbord

With a crazy over-the-top title like "We're Going to Eat You!", you should already know not to expect a cannibal film with nail-biting suspense and/or disturbing shock sequences, but more of a deranged black comedy with absurd situations and a light-headed ambiance. It all depends on your personal sense of humor, of course, but I thought this was a truly relaxing and imaginative Hong Kong cult film! There's not much of a storyline, but the gazillion Kung-Fu fighting sequences are masterfully choreographed and indescribably spectacular. On more than one occasion during these grotesque fights, I wondered how the hell it was possible for certain people to be so ingeniously pliant! The story's hero is Special Agent 999 who, in his quest to arrest the wanted criminal Rolex (I guess he steals watches) travels to an island inhabited by a strange community of cannibalistic weirdos. Agent 999 teams up with an eccentric loner and the only vegetarian girl in town to battle his way off the island again. The script limits itself to showing how 999 & C° get captured by the cannibals and how they subsequently fight their way out of the bubbling cauldrons again, so you really shouldn't consider watching this HK-splatter flick for its intelligent dialogs or slowly oozing suspense. The fights are funny and creative, with the roller-skating sequence as the absolute highlight, and also quite gory, since many of 999's opponents meet their death on sharp cooking objects like meat cleavers and butcher knives. The acting skills of the performers are modest, but they're artists of a different breed! Norman Chu, Eddy Ko and Melvin Wong know copious amounts of exhilarating Kung Fu moves and these definitely compensate for the lack of competent plotting. "We're Going To Eat You" is honestly one of the most entertaining & unpretentious horror-comedy hybrids I ever had the pleasure of seeing. Warmly recommended to watch with a bunch of friends on a lazy Saturday evening.