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...Gulfport-Biloxi line, the site, which includes a Confederate flagpole, has been mired in controversy for over two years. Still at question is whether this Rebel flag is a thoughtful "heritage" salute to the Confederate dead or a racist affront to African-Americans. The NAACP has poured untold resources into banning the flag because the park is funded by taxpayer dollars. Former Klansman David Duke and U.S. Senator Trent Lott have been the most high-profile proponents of keeping the flag, a symbol of their white Southern pride. A clear battle-line has been drawn in the state that Martin...
...trapeze duo in Peter Locke?s very funny 1973 porn film ?It Happened in Hollywood.? Lee is on the receiving end of the most harrowing rape scene in movie history (and, yes, Francophiles, I?m including the one in Gaspar No?s ?Irreversible?). Halfway through Herman Yau?s ?The Untold Story,? Anthony Wong drags her into his shuttered restaurant and ... I?ll just say it?s eye-bulgingly grotty. Sensitive souls will look away when Wong brings out the chopsticks...
...Anthony Wong?s Wong Chi-hang, the demon butcher of Macau in ?The Untold Story,? might be seen as a figure of black comedy - a fiercer sibling of the woman in Roald Dahl?s 1953 story ?Lamb to the Slaughter.? In both tales the killer feeds the evidence to the police: in ?Lamb? the cops eat the the murder weapon; in ?Untold Story? they eat the corpse, which Wong has chopped into pieces and cooked into pork buns. Yet we know this is no comedy from the look on the actor?s face. It is a glower of implacable rage...
...Like Herman Yau?s ?Untold Story,? Billy Tang?s ?Dr. Lamb? is based on a true case. Southeast Asia can?t boast many serial killers; Wong Chi-hang may have been the only one in Macau history, and Lam Go-wan in Hong Kong?s. Both were remarkable for reasons other than their sociopathy: Wong evaded the police for nearly a decade, and Lam carried out his victims? dismembering and packaging in a cramped apartment he shared with a half-dozen family members. As in ?Untold Story,? Danny Lee (who gets co-director credits on both films) plays the tough...
...splatter film?s charge is to keep upping the atrocity ante as it zooms into the murderer?s soul. (?The Untold Story? manages this with the rape scene; ?Dr. Lamb? does it with Simon Yam?s obsessive sexual defiling of his latest corpse.) And the Cat III director?s game was to out-gross the competition, leaving the audience and his colleagues slack-jawed in flummoxed awe. That?s the only apt response to ?Red to Kill,? the masterpiece in the ITMFG collection - the killer vase among these grisly movie antiques. (The film is available in the U.S. on video...