Word: fetuses
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...Mood, shmood - Hong Kong movies, always in a hurry, don?t take long to put the horror goods on the table. Consider the first 10 minutes of Lau Hung-chuen?s sublimely titled ?Devil Fetus,? for me one of the exhumed treasures of ITMFG. At an auction, a woman buys a jade vase without realizing there?s a devil inside. That night, her sister holds the vase in her lap and gets, as wonderfully euphemistic Hong Kong subtitles usually put it, ?comfortable.? The devil assumes a sort of protoplasmic human form, enters the sister and impregnates her. Her husband walks...
...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...
...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 the hero...
...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...