| Cat III sleaze times ten and it's not apologizing for it! The second in the Trilogy Of Lust series (that never actually became a trilogy) sees Julie Lee (billed as Julie Riva) doning her best S&M wear and killing off the horny Hong Kong men Why? Because of an abusive childhood of course! When she contracts HIV from one of her victims, her world crumbles. The moral of the story is quite simple for this one...
The Trilogy Of Lust movies actually are Julie Lee's babies, as she acts as producer, writer and art director plus in front of the camera she goes all out as well. Or rather as far as the Hong Kong censors would let her and I was not thoroughly shocked to find out that the original cut contained hardcore sex scenes. Any chance of an uncut edit turning up in Hong Kong is slim to none but the first installment, also one that had hardcore elements, reportedly turned up uncut in Germany at one time. Go on your hunt boys!
Not that the direction, storytelling or the social commentary is particularly polished but the copious amounts of kinky sex, the originality behind some of the murders (one involving staples in particularly wonderfully out there), makes Trilogy of Lust II passable Hong Kong thrash. For those, like me, with that sick frame of mind, the movie can actually be darkly funny at times also. Elvis Tsui appears briefly at the beginning as one of the unlucky ones in this picture. |
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