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6/10
Beware the green light of doom!
ElijahCSkuggs18 May 2009
Story revolves around a possessed young police woman who seems to be out killing everyone who gets in her way. Her boyfriend, photographer and boss at work are all suspicious of her and are out to find out what's the problem. With a story focusing on possession, vengeful spirits and murder, you're steadily entertained with a flick that manages to keep it's head above water.

I had high hopes for Hell Has No Boundary, but I was slightly disappointed. Expecting something a little more manic, violent, sleazy and just more entertaining is what I praying for. But instead the story focused more on it's eerie music, and lackluster kills to bring home the bacon. It didn't fail in any such area, and was actually an alright film on it's on merit. But as a film to shock the viewer with ridiculousness, this was not up to snuff.

The film does switch gears towards the finale to more of an action pace, but instead of marveling at the special effects you're more invested into what the hell is going on with the story. Which did get kinda cooky at a couple points. It's a pretty simple yet strange tale that works alright, but it never had me really caring for anyone or anything.

If you're big into Chinese black magic flicks with the sleaze and slime, this is one you may want to pass on. The violence is pg-13, there's barely any nudity, which kinda just shows up at the end when you were wondering where it was during the rest of the flick and the magical aspect isn't anything special either. But don't get me wrong, the movie overall is a fine lil horror flick. But just don't expect anything over the top or amazing. I do have to give it credit for a certain mirror gag that Evil Dead 2 is famous for and a dude dying by toilet paper.
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4/10
Green fog
BandSAboutMovies15 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Cheng Jung (Derek Yee) and Wong Lai Fen (Leanne Liu) work at the same police station and start dating. One evening, as they camp on an island, she hears a strange noise and investigates, only to discover a strange green light. Somehow, she knows the island despite never being there and the light eventually knocks her out. When she wakes up, she attacks the kids near their camp with a fork and tries to drown one of them.

Yes, things aren't normal.

May goes back to being a cop and is placed on a serial killer case by Inspector Wong (Hua Yueh). Somehow, May is able to not only catch the criminal, but shoot him with a bullet that reverse course after being fired, which leads reporter Koo (Ken Tong) to think she's a superhero. Her new reckless attitude gets her taken off the case, but the two cops that replace her end up falling down an empty elevator shaft.

Everyone that ever was in May's way must now pay. Like the horney superior who she takes disco dancing and then castrates with a crab. Yes, a crab. Or the holy man whose bird is destroyed and whose face is covered with boils before he's launched down the strairs. Even an attempt at exorcizing May ends up with her drinking vomit from a toilet and sending a knife into the throat of her aunt.

The spirit that is inside her? Well, she died as a child after being sold to another serial killer, who smothered her with a pillow and then tore her insides out, at which point another completely different guy sold her dead body as goat meat.

Director Yang Chuan also made Hou wang da zhan tian bing tian jiang. If you haven't seen that, well, get ready. This movie - like that one - is packed with bloody murder, insects, worms, slugs, neon lights and fog, death by toilet paper, nurses killed in showers, ghosts riding people in photographs...it packs in so much that by the end, you'll be exhausted in the best of ways.
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