[KFCC] Ebola Syndrome Review

Story: Kai having murdered 3 people in Hong Kong escapes to South Africa, 10 years later he is still working at the same Chinese where the boss know of his crime and is giving him a place to hide. One day Kai goes with his boss to go buy pigs from an African tribe, they notice lots of dead people that had died a terrible way. One the way back to the city Kai crashes the truck, while his boss is trying to fix it Kai wanders off. He finds a sick African woman and decides to rape her, a day later Kai gets a heavy fever. A doctor says there is one in 10 million that is unaffected by the Ebola virus and become carriers.

Review: This is a gruesome Hong Kong horror in the style of the Untold Story or Dr. Lamb. This is not the traditional horror as you will expect but rather a gruesome murder thriller. Most horror movies from Hong Kong are not that scary but when they have a movie dealing with serial killer type murder they go all the way. This movie is intended for a mature audience (CAT.III) as it is quite bloody even if the VCD is not the un-cut version. The story behind this movie is a great idea, it is straight forward and easy to follow.

Anthony Wong plays an incredible performance in this movie, the story revolves around his character Kai. He brings out a disgusting nature for the character that is incredibly convincing. Kai can easily be considered one of the best sleazy, filthy and disgusting characters we have ever seen. Unfortunately there isn't any background for the character other than the first 5 minutes of the movie, the development is low on the part of the character. There are no other remarkable characters in the movie, well other than the girl that feels sick each time she is near Kai (she only stick out because of the silly way she finds Kai).

Alright if your planning to watch this we hope you have a strong stomach, you got what a bit of blood and gore. We made the mistake of munching on snacks while watching this one. Also as mentioned this movie has some very mature content such as rape and murder, nothing is sacred in this movie and the main character goes pretty low. I guess it is in a movie like this were you see the difference of limits between Hollywood and Hong Kong cinema. This movie would have never been made in Hollywood let alone be shown in North American theaters. The shock factor is very high in this movie. We wont say any more concerning the action in this movie but Kai is going to some crazy and sick stuff.

The subtitles were alright on the VCD version but they were a little small, also there is the occasional white on white. During some parts of the movie it is a little hard to follow the dialog. This movie is probably the first we reviewed in the gruesome genre, we have seen movies like Untold Story and Dr. Lamb, we can easily say this movie is in the same category. The use of the Ebola Virus in the story was brilliant, the way the movie was put together this is something that could be possible. They played with the what if possibility of a terrible virus like that carried around by someone who was not affected by it. We simply loved this movie, both for its shock value and for this great story and character. Anyone who is not scared of gore we strongly recommend that you take a look at this movie.