Ebola Syndrome (1996)

A restaurant employee wanted for murder contracts Ebola by raping a woman in South Africa and starts an outbreak there and in Hong Kong when he returns home.

Director:

Herman Yau

Writer:

Ting Chau

Stars:

Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Yeung-Ming Wan, Fui-On Shing

Cast

Credited cast:
Anthony Chau-Sang Wong	...	Kai
Yeung-Ming Wan	...	Yeung
Fui-On Shing	...	Annoyed Husband
Tsui-Ling Wong
Miu-Ying Chan	...	Har
Meng Lo	...	The Boss
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Lu Cheung	...	Kei's Wife
Edward Corbett
Lorraine Ho
Cheung-Lung Kai
Lori Shannon
Michael Tam
Bobby Yip	...	Short Ugly Triad
Sin-Yi Yip

Storyline

Hong Kong 1986: A restaurant employee murders his boss and mutilates his wife, he escapes to South Africa where he rapes a Zulu-girl, who is infected with the ebola virus. In the restaurant where he now works he murders his boss and the bosses wife after raping her. He chops them up and makes them into hamburgers, which he sells in the restaurant, spreading the ebola virus. When the police come on his trail he moves back to Hong Kong and an ebola epidemic starts there.

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Plot Keywords:

restaurant | meat | ebola virus | south africa | murder | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Horror | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese English

Release Date:

15 June 1996 (Hong Kong)

Also Known As:

Ebola Syndrome

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong, China

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jing's Production

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

During the DVD commentary, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong made it clear that it was not his him killing the frog in the first kitchen scene. He said that not only does it take a special skill to prepare a frog like that, but he also found it to be cruel.

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Quotes

[the coroner is dissecating the body of a man who died from Ebola Syndrome]
Coroner: Hum... the lower intestine has liquified. The main organs have disglued and the lungs have all turned to mush. Starting our examination of the head we shall make an incision to the throat. And the face has ulcers. Facial muscular tissue is badly decomposed. I've never seen anything like it, it's as if the muscular tissues were trying to eat each other!

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Connections

Spoofs Outbreak (1995)

User Reviews

Gross but not that disturbing.

I've always loved movies with Anthony Wong in them. Especially his cat 3 epics. Such as this obviously and the excellent untold story. In this Wong plays a lowly restaurant worker named Kai. Who's practically a slave. He gets all the lousy jobs. Wong like to have sex with his bosses wives though. This obviously doesn't go down very well when they find out so he moves job. In one instance when Kai is discovered practically raping the bosses wife, boss man is angry. He threatens to castrate Kai, things get out of hand and Kai ends up slaughtering his boss and his wife. Though not his daughter. Next we meet Kai 10 yeras later. Cutting up REAL frogs in grotesque detail. He is still the same low life restaurant worker, but he's moved. Anyway long story short Kai catches the ebola syndrome and becomes a carrier. I'm sure you can imagine what follows so I won't ruin it for you here. I'll just say that their are some scenes of extreme gore, although it never really feels disturbing as the scenes leading up to these events are always comedic. This is a fun film and definitely more of a gross out comedy than straight up horror. Whatever it is its great