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.
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| Anthony Chau-Sang Wong | ... | Kai | |
| Yeung-Ming Wan | ... | Yeung | |
| Fui-On Shing | ... | Annoyed Husband | |
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Tsui-Ling Wong | ||
| Miu-Ying Chan | ... | Har | |
| Meng Lo | ... | The Boss | |
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Lu Cheung | ... | Kei's Wife |
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Edward Corbett | ||
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Lorraine Ho | ||
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Lori Shannon | ||
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Michael Tam | ||
| Bobby Yip | ... | Short Ugly Triad | |
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Sin-Yi Yip | ... | Hooker |
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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. Written by Erik Adelfred <edu_97gr@edu.ats.dk>
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Country:
Hong KongRelease Date:
15 June 1996 (Hong Kong) See more »Also Known As:
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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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During the DVD commentary, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong made it clear that it was not 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. See more »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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Alternate Versions
Video versions of this film (VCD and DVD) are heavily censored. The original cut of the film no longer exists. According to the director (Herman Yau) all of the edited footage is either missing or destroyed. See more »Connections
Referenced in Category III: The Untold Story of Hong Kong Exploitation Cinema (2018) See more »
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I watched this movie on a whim during a marathon of mostly-trashy horror films. I went into it expecting an over-the-top splatter flick, and while it definitely has some gore, I think there's more humour here than anything.
The plot is simple, and the IMDb blurb sums it up well. A really sleazy character rapes someone with Ebola, becomes a carrier, and winds up infecting people as he goes about his sleazy routine. Kai is an awful character, but I mean that in the best way, and Anthony Wong's performance is top notch. You'll love to hate him.
The special effects are well done. The acting, the camera work, and the music all felt just right; nothing struck me as jarring or out of place. The dialogue and the circumstances the characters wind up in are often hilarious, and that's where the movie really shined in my eyes.
It's trashy, it's most likely gross by many folks' standards, but I loved it. It's more grounded that some of the wackier splatter films, but if you get a kick out of twisted humour, this is well worth a watch.