Raped By An Angel: Quick Takes

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Raped By An Angel
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Probably one of most striking titles out of this wave of Cat III cinema but this Wong Jing production directed by Andrew Lau is cheap thrash, and not in a good way.

Admittedly, some of the foul sight gags do work (as well as the outrageous comeuppance for Mark Cheng's character in the finale) and Simon Yam is surprisingly fun as a kinder triad than you usually encounter in films. It's still clearly exploitation that uses the high rating to deliver as much excessiveness as it can. Those buttons, Wong and Lau obviously push very well but at the same time, they're clearly not at the forefront of the actual better filmmakers of this kind of Cat III (chief among them being Billy Tang). I have a fascination of this dirty backalley of Hong Kong cinema though and make of me what you will when I say that I'm keeping this and pursuing the Raped By An Angel series.

In places, Raped By An Angel has been marketed as a sequel to Naked Killer (the only connection being its main stars and producer Wong Jiing). When released in the UK, a 4 minute pre-cut print was not enough to please the BBFC, who excised another 7 minutes, making the UK version 11 minutes shorter than the edit presented on Universe's Hong Kong dvd (which reportedly represents the censored Hong Kong edit as evident in noticeable music jumps and audio bleeps).

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