Recently seeing Dr. Lamb (1992-also reviewed),I decided to continue watching the CAT III DVD's which I've been meaning to play for years! Finding that I had the original and sequel,I turned the page on the first untold story.
View on the film:
Working from a recipe loosely based on the real August 4th 1985 Eight Immortals Restaurant murders, the screenplay by Kam-Fai Law and Wing-Kin Lau grinds the Horror of True Crime with the wacky bad-taste Comedy of CAT III, as Hang tries to hide the evidence, by serving it up to unsuspecting souls.
Poking at body parts that appear at shore to get clues out of them, the writers play the mystery out on a jarring sea-saw, at one moment being on the grime cover-up by Hang, (played by a great, rough Anthony Wong )then at the next, going to the cops dropping foul gags on each other, and never finding a moment to smoothly blend them together.
Cooking up the same flavor as the script, co-director/ (with Herman Yau) co-star Danny Lee visualise the brilliant squashy sound effects with a washed out, saturated appearance, which the directors decay with panning shots running the outpouring of blood across Hang's murky world. Boiling a grubby Horror atmosphere when round Hang, the directors stumble and take it all off the boil with a wacky, brightly coloured splash for the police investigation, where cheeky sound effects and lingering camera shots at the fit ladies cook up a saucy comedic CAT III mood.
View on the film:
Working from a recipe loosely based on the real August 4th 1985 Eight Immortals Restaurant murders, the screenplay by Kam-Fai Law and Wing-Kin Lau grinds the Horror of True Crime with the wacky bad-taste Comedy of CAT III, as Hang tries to hide the evidence, by serving it up to unsuspecting souls.
Poking at body parts that appear at shore to get clues out of them, the writers play the mystery out on a jarring sea-saw, at one moment being on the grime cover-up by Hang, (played by a great, rough Anthony Wong )then at the next, going to the cops dropping foul gags on each other, and never finding a moment to smoothly blend them together.
Cooking up the same flavor as the script, co-director/ (with Herman Yau) co-star Danny Lee visualise the brilliant squashy sound effects with a washed out, saturated appearance, which the directors decay with panning shots running the outpouring of blood across Hang's murky world. Boiling a grubby Horror atmosphere when round Hang, the directors stumble and take it all off the boil with a wacky, brightly coloured splash for the police investigation, where cheeky sound effects and lingering camera shots at the fit ladies cook up a saucy comedic CAT III mood.