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Screenplay:
Kam-Fai LawCinematography:
Wai-Kei ChoComposer:
Jonathon Bong WongCast:
Anthony Wong, Danny Lee, Fui-on Shing, Julie Lee, Siu-ming Lau, Parkman Wong, James Ha Chim-si, Wai-nan So, Emily Bo-Wai Kwan, Cinda Hui, Johnny Tin-Dok Wong (more)Plots(1)
Herman Yau Lai-to spins this notoriously grisly crime yarn based on a real-life case of Wong Chi-hang and his ill-fated venture into the restaurant business. The film opens with Wong (Anthony Wong Chau-sang) fleeing Hong Kong after setting alight a fellow mah-jong player during a major case of sour grapes. Fast-forward ten years, when a bag of severed limbs washes up on the beaches of Macau. When Inspector Lee (Danny Lee) takes over the case, he is inevitably led to the Eight Immortals Restaurant, which Wong manages. After successive beatings from both the cops and fellow prisoners, Wong spills the beans. He gained control of the Eight Immortals after massacring the owner and his entire family. When the cook started getting uppity, he whacked him and turned him into pork buns. Soon numerous others found themselves as the daily special. (official distributor synopsis)
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When they try to create humor in Hong Kong, it is usually lost on me... Wannabe humorous police scenes are gradually phased out completely, but at first there are more than enough of them. If The Untold Story had been absolutely serious from the beginning, it could have worked excellently. Especially since the movie can rely on the always first-class Anthony Wong.
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I'm slapping myself for putting the film off for so long!! The Untold Story is not only the most brutal horror film from Hong Kong, but also the most brutal horror film of the 90s, more or less a prequel to Macabre!! Anthony Wong is brilliant here, the guy was born to play these roles of crazy psychopath, murderer or maniac, it suits him perfectly. The film features some excellent sequences, which I will never forget, such as the scene in prison, where the main character gets his ass kicked, bullying of the deepest grain, or the very end, where they show the massacre of a whole family, including four children, who are then cut into pieces, all on camera!! So this is both very daring considering the time it was made and a great mockery of all the censored horror films of the 80s and 90s. A legitimate cult film. 9/10
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