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Title: Ebola Syndrome (2007) Starring: Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Yeung Ming Wan, Fui-On Shing, Wong Tsui-ling, and Miu-Ying Chan Director: Herman Yau Rating: Unrated Runtime: 98 minutes Avg. Score: 4 Submit Comment Hits: 28

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• Posted on 2008-06-24
  Delivers some infected love
  
  Knock knock.
  WHO'S THERE?
  Joe.
  JOE WHO?
  Joe Mama gave me a disease.
  
  The deadly Ebola Virus. Symptoms are compulsive sweating, coughing, sneezing, dizziness, fever, headaches, diarrhea, vomitting, seizures, profusive bleeding, dissolution of internal organs, and death.
  
  Knock knock.
  WHO'S THERE?
  Ben.
  BEN WHO?
  Ben raped and infected lately?
  
  Ebola can be contracted by a combination of the following: Bathing in the blood of animal sacrifices, having intercourse with uncooked food, injecting drugs with open sores while African insects swarm everywhere, and being violated by a disgusting coughing sneezing puking carrier.
  
  Knock knock.
  WHO'S THERE?
  Gus.
  GUS WHO?
  This flick is disGUSting fun. 4.5 Stars.
  Score: 4
• Posted on 2008-04-09
  Rivals The Untold Story
  
  This movie is one of the greatest asian horror films ever made. Anthony Wong is wildy entertaining.
  
  This movie is about a man that is working in South Africa in a local Asian resturant. The owner's girlfriend is constantly nagging and insulting him, While on a trip through the African wilds in search of a pig for sale, Anthony Wongs character decides to fool around with a local tribe woman. What he dosent know is that she is infected with the horrible Ebola Syndrome. He does not find out until after the fact. But luckily for him, He is immune to this particular disease. HE recovers quickly, But he continues to spread the virus to that comes in contact with him. Through his urine, saliva, blood, semen he spreads the virus to many people. Once the public becomes aware of this syndrome, There is an attempt by the police to capture him for murder and to stop the spread of the Ebola syndrome.
  
  This film is very similar to the director's previous film "The Untold Story", Mostly because of the use of the same actor and the subject matter of using people for food. An excellent film that should be seen by fans of hardcore asian cinema!
  
  Two Thumbs Up.
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2008-03-24
  A worthy follow-up to "The Untold Story".
  
  Back in 1986 Hong Kong, Kai Sang (Anthony Wong) was caught having sex with the wife of his boss and starts to murder them. 10 years later he is working in a Chinese restraunt in South Africa, one day he buys some meat from a local African tribe and rapes a sick native woman on his way to work. He suddenly gets infected by the Ebola virus but it doesn't kill him as he becomes a carrier of the virus, he goes mad as he butchers some people to make them into special hamburgers that satisifies the costumers cravings. Unknown to them, the burgers are also contaminated with Ebola and soon Sang goes back to Hong Kong after he has found his boss's hidden money pile. Now he starts to spread the virus to some people in the city and the police with the contamination unit are on his trail.
  
  Entertaining and gory horror comedy from director Herman Yau who made the infamous Hong Kong extreme horror cult fave "The Untold Story" as this was a nice follow-up to his disgusting masterpiece. While not as over the top as the other film but it does offer plenty of good gore such as skin ripping, cannibalism, eye gouging and others including some sleaze abound, there is some eye pleasingly beautiful Asian girls in this movie. It does have some dark humor to spice up the film with a dark sense of atmosphere, i recommend this to fans of horror comedies and Asian cinema.
  
  
  This DVD contains excellent picture and sound with the original Cantonese Language with accurate Subtitles with some fine extras like trailers to this and other titles, audio commentary, an interview with the director and Deleted Scenes.
  
  Also recommended: "Ichi The Killer", "The Untold Story", "Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky", "Maniac (1980)", "Battle Royale", "Cannibal Ferox", "Hell of the Living Dead (aka Night of the Zombies, Virus, Zombie Creeping Flesh)", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre part 2", "Grindhouse", "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer", "Men Behind The Sun", "Bloodsucking Freaks", "The New York Ripper", "Inferno", "Tenebre", "Deep Red", "Hostel 1 & 2", "Silence of the Lambs", "The Crazies", "I Drink Your Blood", "The Devil's Rejects", "House of 1000 Corpses", "Hannibal", "Jungle Holocaust (a.k.a. Last Cannibal World)", "Mountain of the Cannibal God", "Blood Feast", "Saw Quadrilogy", "The Toxic Avenger", "Driller Killer", "Blood Diner" "Red to Kill", "The Hills Have Eyes (2006)", "Cannibal Apocalypse", "The Crazies", "Cannibal The Musical", "Tetsuo The Iron Man", "Man from Deep River" and "Terror Firmer".
  Score: 4
• Posted on 2008-02-25
  Avoid the Pork Buns!!!!!
  
  Because Herman Yau & Anthony Wong are at it again!!!!
  The team responsible for "The Untold Story" are back in the kitchen.
  And this time, they're cooking up human pork buns in South Africa.
  The only difference is these Pork Buns are chock full of the Ebola Virus!!!
  
  Pretty much the same premise as "The Untold Story"
  but without the police investigation angle, and twice the mayhem.
  While "The Untold Story" was a more frightening, more believable story,
  Ebola Syndrome is much more fun.
  It has twice the amount of depravities as "Untold Story"
  though they're not as viscious.
  That was until I discovered that 99% of the deleted scenes were extended gore scenes. (Much like The Untold Story, the actual violence tends to take place offscreen)
  I was a little upset to say the least.
  You still get to see all the carnage taking place onscreen,
  which is grotesquely beatiful
  dont't get me wrong,
  but the camera doesn't dwell nearly as long as it should,
  which you'll see quite clearly in the deleted scenes.
  Each gore scene was supposed to be a a few seconds longer.
  In fact,
  one scene involving a chewed eye-ball was missing entirely.
  So in all honesty you might want to find a different version.
  (if there is one, which I'm pretty sure there isn't)
  Despite the fact that this version is alledgedly unrated.
  
  SYNOPSIS:(With almost no spoilers)
  Kai gets caught in the act with his boss's wife.
  His boss, furious, beats Kai about the apartment,
  This confrontation ends in a triple homicide,
  with their daughter as the only witness.
  
  12 years later, Kai is working in a kitchen in South Africa,
  for a frugal businesman, who, to save a little money,
  decides to buy his pork from an african tribe infected with the Ebola Virus.
  During their excursion Kai becomes infected, but as it turns out,
  he's one of 10 million who are immune to the virus,
  which makes him a carrier.
  Which means anyone coming in contact with any of his bodily fluid is infected.
  When they return to work, ownership of the restaurant, violently changes hands.
  And the previous owners are now on the menu.
  But someone recognizes Kai
  remembers him from Hong Kong,
  remembers what he did.
  
  Half the movie is spoken in Chinese,
  & the other half is spoken in bad english,
  Which makes for quite an unintentionally hilarious combination.
  It's painfully obvious that the director doesn't speak english.
  Because every actor not speaking chinese, was just downright awful,
  pure cardboard, like they were reading lines off an intelligible cue-card.
  Their acting, to say the least, seemed out of place.
  Anthony Wong however was great, in a gross kind of way.
  
  The Depravities include:
  - a severed tongue,
  - ebola rape
  - decapitaion
  - mutilation
  - cannibalism
  - toothpicks to the eye
  - facial urination
  - porkchop masturbation
  - chewed eye-ball
  - child murder
  etc, etc.
  
  MORAL OF THE STORY:
  If you can't beat 'em.........
  cut 'em up, and turn 'em into pork-buns.
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2004-07-07
  Insert Hong Kong-sploitation pun here.
  
  Ebola Syndrome (Herman Yau, 1996)

  This, I am ashamed to say, was my first exposure to the wonderful world of Cat III Hong Kong cinema. I sat there for the whole movie saying "wow, I didn't know Joe D'Amato had moved to Hong Kong."

  The movie opens with the seemingly mentally slow Ah Kai (Cat III fixture Anthony Wong, last seen on these shores in Black Mask) having, erm, relations with the boss' wife. When the boss walks in on them, hilarity ensues. Kai ends up slaughtering the family, with the exception of the daughter (once again, he gets walked in on), and fleeing to South Africa. (Not a spoiler. We're five minutes into the movie.)

  Kai has become a waiter in a popular Chinese restaurant in South Africa. If anything, he's gotten slower. His misanthropic tendencies have been honed to razor-sharpness by the treatment he receives from the boss (kung-fu flick veteran Meng Lo, recently in the third installment of Sex and Zen) and his wife. One day, while off buying meat in zulu country, through a series of events best left to the reader's imagination, Kai contracts ebola. He is, however, one of those rare people who will survive the disease and become a carrier...

  Everything about this movie can be summed up in the word "nasty," the same way it can with Joe D'Amato joints. Yau (The Untold Story), however, keeps things on the up side of D'Amato with a grisly sense of humor that pops up just when it's needed. As with most exploitation flicks of this sort, the plot is bone-thin and often transparent, the acting is average at best, and the camerawork is nothing special. It's a fun little movie if you have a really strong stomach, but not something you could hold up as a shining example of the genre... I hope. ***
  Score: 3