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| Hong Kong's answer to both Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, and a lot more fun to than those two combined. Take poor scripting, even poorer special effects (especially the animated ones but Hong Kong weren't exactly the top cinema in terms of SFX), a good chunk of gue, gore and worms, supremely poor English subtitles for most of the film, and you'll get a horror effort strolling nicely along the b-movie lane.
Therefore, those of you who can turn on and off your b-movie sensibilities will get much enjoyment out of this Lo Wei production. It definitely does try to scare, which obviously today in 2004 doesn't register and play everything straight but creates more of a hokey and campy experience because of it. Despite that, I at least didn't find myself looking down on this as Hong Kong cinema will always be admired by me for giving their absolute all, despite how ludicrous the results would be. It's not wise to use the word merit but Devil Fetus has that, in spades, but I'll leave it up to you to find out what that actually means. |
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| Hong Kong's answer to both Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, and a lot more fun to than those two combined. Take poor scripting, even poorer special effects (especially the animated ones but Hong Kong weren't exactly the top cinema in terms of SFX), a good chunk of gue, gore and worms, supremely poor English subtitles for most of the film, and you'll get a horror effort strolling nicely along the b-movie lane.
Therefore, those of you who can turn on and off your b-movie sensibilities will get much enjoyment out of this Lo Wei production. It definitely does try to scare, which obviously today in 2004 doesn't register and play everything straight but creates more of a hokey and campy experience because of it. Despite that, I at least didn't find myself looking down on this as Hong Kong cinema will always be admired by me for giving their absolute all, despite how ludicrous the results would be. It's not wise to use the word merit but Devil Fetus has that, in spades, but I'll leave it up to you to find out what that actually means. |
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