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Devil Fetus
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Devil Fetus is sure an odd duck, even in the goofy world of Hong Kong ghost/horror movies. The film starts with a young woman buying a vase. It turns out the vase is actually a demon, and it pops out to impregnate the woman -- just as her husband arrives home from a business trip. Hubby is understandably pissed, so he smashes the vase, which causes his skin to fall off and become infested with maggots. Yummy. He then takes a header off of the balcony.

Apparently, this sort of thing is commonplace for this particular family, so they go about their business like nothing happened. The wife begins going nutty and eventually takes a header herself. The resident kook of the family, grandma, begins to surmise that something wrong might be going on, so she brings in a priest to trap the husband and wife's tortured souls. Fast-forward about twelve years, and the trap gets broken, which causes the demon to occupy one of the family's sons, which causes all sorts of fun and mayhem, including, but not limited to, rape via slimy demon and eating of raw dog intestines.

Make no doubt about it -- Devil Fetus is junk all the way, but it is fun junk. This is not a film that you can take seriously at all, or your head will explode from trying to 1) rationalize the plot, and 2) trying to tie together the loose ends and/or shortcomings. The biggest example of the latter is the simple fact that the family lets the demon-possessed kid just stay in the house. Um, I'm sorry, if junior's gnawing on a dog carcass he keeps under his bed, then maybe it's time to shoot him off to the looney bin.

Devil Fetus is the type of movie that you watch for the over-the-top gore. The bits that are in there are effective, despite the special effects being incredibly cheap. The film's main problem is that there just aren't enough of the bloody moments. When the movie actually tries to concentrate on exposition and plot development, its' shortcomings become painfully apparent. But if you're a viewer that can forgive shortcomings in the storytelling department for a dose of thrill of the claret kind, then Devil Fetus might be right up your alley.

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    by Joy Sales/Fortune Star



ALTERNATE SYNOPSIS:
The Cheng, a rich family, deals with business about real estate in Hong Kong. During the Ghost Festival, senior Mrs. Cheng's second daughter-in-law bought an old jade from her highest bid at an auction sale. However, she changed a lot after that. One night when her husband returned without informing her, he found her making love with a monster that later turned out to be a creature from the jade. He broke the jade into pieces angrily and his body rotten after the dense smoke disappeared. He then jumped out of the window and died. When his wife also committed suicide on the seventh day of his death, the senior Mrs. Cheng got a wizard to have an enchantment in order to release the souls from suffering. During the enchantment, the wizard found out the woman was pregnant with an evil fetus. Fearing this might bring misfortune, he asked them to cover the coffin with yellow charms and warned them not to touch or move any charms within the coming 12 years.11 years later, when the grandson Kwok Kuen and his girlfriend Ngon come back to the old house to pick up the senior Mrs. Cheng, they enter his uncle's room as Ngon is curious at those charms. The charms are moved and strange things come to pass one by one from then on...
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