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...like the Partridges. By the time Granny?s birthday cake is served - and one of the guests notices too late that it?s full of worms, cuing her to vomit the Betty Crocker Maggot Mix on the floor ? you may want to follow the advice of this patch of ?Devil Fetus? dialogue: ?How do you feel?? ?I feel disgusting.? ?Then lie down for a while...
...with religious and sorcerous arcana. A priest in ?CESK? announces these rules, as if every educated person knows them: ?When two opponents have the same strength, the one with the taller altar will win,? and ?He who wears a red petticoat will be possessed by the god of war.? ?Devil Fetus? mixes ghost lanterns and paper money (actual paraphernalia of grieving) with a levitating mom, a bleeding mirrors and a flying carpet that?s less magic than black magic. To make a ?love hex? operable, in ?Eternal Evil,? a man needs his sister?s sweat; and Julie Lee tells...
...were dreamed up by screenwriters high on hash and trash. For some of the answers, consult Peter Nepstad?s essays on his always-enlightening website, The Illuminated Lantern. And if they don?t fill in all the gaps in your ignorance, consider the words of the Taoist priest in ?Devil Fetus.? He offers this sage advice ?to the dead and the alive: Take it easy...
...Subway collective might have chosen other films in this mood. Ng See-yuen?s 1982 ?Seeding of a Ghost? was a worthily loopy predecessor to ?Devil Fetus.? Wong Chang-yeung?s ?Holy Virgin vs. the Evil Dead? (1991) is up there with ?Eternal Evil of Asia? as a spiked cocktail of Taoism, terror and tits. ?Run and Kill,? which Billy Tang made between ?Dr. Lamb? and ?Red to Kill,? matches those films in deranged fury with its tale of a fat shlub (Kent Cheng) whose wife is killed, and child char-broiled, by every triad goon and psycho slaverer west...
...films from the old days, so few today. The current crop all want to be ?The Ring? or its even paler Hong Kong knockoff, ?The Eye,? another big hit that is soon to be remade in Hollywood. Note to moguls: Forget the newer Asian ghost stories. Think about redoing ?Devil Fetus? with state-of-your-art special effects, or ?Red to Kill? with Benicio Del Toro as the doctor and Katie Holmes as the imperiled girl. And don?t worry about making it NC-17 - the video will be a big hit in the Far East...